Texas / Texas Tech - Game On

Mike Leach vs. Will Muschamp

Greg Davis vs. Ruffin McNeill

 

No one's holding a gun to their head to make them play a conference championship game, are they? If you don't want to risk your league's top team getting another loss, then quit playing another game just for the money. (No, I don't ever expect that to happen.)

 

That shouldn't matter about Florida. Any team that is undefeated and as good as Penn State should be in position for the title game at this point.

Even if they win two out of the next three, beat Indy, Iowa and lose to MSU, they would be 11-1 and so far, there is no guarantee for them.

In a playoff we could see these 8 teams right now:

1. Texas
2. Alabama
3. Penn State
4. Oklahoma
5. Florida
6. Texas Tech
7. Boise State or Utah
8. USC

Round 1: Texas vs. USC, Boise State or Utah vs. Alabama, Penn State vs. Texas Tech, Oklahoma vs. Florida. (Tell me Oklahoma Florida, or Bama Boise State wouldn't be sick?

And fuck that little 11 bullshit. Nobody remembers when OSU defeated a great Miami team in '02 for the title. Or that two years ago Michigan and Ohio State were top 3 almost all season.

 

All the Big1T1en and Pac-10 have to do is expand to 12 teams and then they can split into divisions and have their own championship games. The SEC, ACC, Big XII, C-USA and MAC are are getting extended paydays.

 

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It's because that's convenient.

 

See, that little 11 bullshit is accurate in recent times. I'll give you '02, but two years ago, "everyone" was clamoring for a rematch between "the two best teams in the country" (which by the way, a conference title game would solve) and instead Florida smacked tOSU up one side of the field and down the other.

So big deal, Penn State is going to win that conference — Texas, USC or the SEC representative (Florida, Georgia or Alabama) will win that game easily.

 

And USC beat Michigan with ease.

 

I love Mike Leach.

I would hate to be a Tech beat writer.

Five hour games...imagine after checking the Kansas State-Oklahoma halftime score what that game will be like. If it isn't a 9 a.m. kickoff, deadlines may be threatened.

Mustang - Alabama has potholes all over its schedule...paving the way for your Nittanies to lose another championship game for the Big Eleven.

 

You and I agree on football, anyway. I don't see 'Bama winning out.
However, I have a terrible feeling that Tech's not ready for the heat in this game. I'm rooting for the Nittanies if only because their conference has avoided having one of those phony fundraising ratings-killing conference "championship games." If the SEC wants to throw its best team into one extra meat-grinder, it can take the consequences.

 

Hey, the Big 12 South could be its own powerbroker apart from the North. That's the best configuration in years. Four teams in the top 10? And if A&M hadn't fired R.C. Slocum, they might have had a fifth.

Puppy just broke gas. Damn. Got to get him back to the next office.