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Ok, as Sooner Fan, I have to say I am glad Texas is watching us play. (But I think they should be playing not us they won the head to head. There goes my membership card and Jacket. We could very well fall on our face against Mizzou. K-State ring a bell. I will be cheering for Bama all the way this weekend.
As for Bob's bowl game history. It's really bad. I said it. To defend our play is tough and maybe just a vacation for the kids except for National Championship games. The LSU game was a home game and close, and Most NFL teams couldn't have beat USC that year. Still makes me wonder when they will strip them of the title for Reggie Bush.
Meh, makes no never-mind to me. (There goes MY membership card to the 'Real Man's Club'!)
I'm from the Sooner State, but married a southern Belle from Lousy-anna. So I guess I just usually cheer for whomever's winning! ;P <Ducks and runs> :)
OH! And,...
IS that PER saying?!?
-"Superman wears Tim Tebow pyjamas"
- "Superman wears Tim Tebow pyjamas"
- "Superman wears Tim Tebow pyjamas"
etc,... ;P
Is that the best you've got? Cause back in 2001 the Ravens went to the Super Bowl without having scored a touchdown at all in like five games. You'll have to come up with a better reason then that to deny us our due shot. ;pSeriously, has 'Bama scored an offensive touchdown yet? Just asking ;)
The point is, Florida WILL score. If 'bama can't keep up, well, it will be the Gators embarrassing the Sooners in Miami, not 'bama (although if 'bama does somehow beat Florida, they will also embarrass the Oklahoma Choke...err...Sooners...)
That's easy to say, but harder to pull off. You don't get to be #1 by giving up points. Alabama's got the best defense in the league, and they have the second best running offense as well. The one time Tebow had a chance to show what he could do in a pinch, he choked and Ole Miss beat Florida. Add into the mix that Harvin may not play, and you the makings of a seriously bad weekend for Florida. Urban Meyer needs to have Tebow practice laying on his back looking up at the Bama defense, since he's going to be doing a lot of that on Saturday. ;p
I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to set up a playoff series, and I think I have a solution. You take the conference champion for each of the twelve conferences, plus the top four teams that did not win their conference championships. That gives you sixteen teams, then they play each other in the openning round. Everyone is assigned a game based on a random draw and would be like the Music City Bowl and so forth. Then the next round is down to eight, which could be your second tier bowl games, like the Alamo Bowl or the Las Vegas Bowl. The next round of four could be the big four bowl game (Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Fiesta), and then you have the championship. It's fair, and it preserves the bowl games as well, which has been one big objection to a playoff system.
The flaw in this argument is none of the second tier bowl games will go for it and the BCS Bowls already would be against any change. The reason that the bowl games can give the financial incentives they do is that alumni and fans will travel to see the game. Noone will go to see the Alamo Bowl if it is Oklahoma versus Utah, as potential fans will wait to see if their team makes it further. The only people that would see most of these games would be people in that city.
However, my argument against a 16-team playoff has to do more with the common comparison of NCAA's basketball final tournaments and the current system. Right now there are 34 bowls, at least according to ESPN's website. Out of 68 teams, playing 34 will win their final game of the season. Of the top 96 teams in a basketball season (NCAA and NIT) only two win their last game and one of those thinks they should have gone to the other tournament.
I think a four or eight-team playoff could work, with early games probably played at non-neutral sites and allowing also-rans to then play in a standard but subpar bowl game.
I got your back werewoof...
There have been several defenses in a row that have made the exact argument David's making prior to the game. The thing about this Gator team is that they are very balanced. The defense puts enormous pressure on the short routes and makes lots of picks. The offense can hurt you with the run or pass, and some of the running plays at the perimeter are just like home-run passes. If Demps or Rainey get a little bit of open field they are going to run away from your safeties and corners. Defenses have to spread out, leaving their poor spying linebackers to deal with Tebow, and increasingly Moody.
The only thing that can stop this offense is itself. If bama can force fumbles like Ole Miss was able to do, we might be in trouble. If not, they are in for an ugly afternoon. If Saban thinks that ball-control football is going to beat us, he's not paying attention. Every opponent we face beats us in time of possession. And they also lose by at least 28 on the scoreboard. Ole Miss scored on long, flaky plays and no one else has been able to duplicate that feat since.
Oh yeah, and Brandon James is taking one to the house on that carpet in the dome.
Bama better bring their officials - oh wait, all SEC officials are from Alabama. Strike that...
My wife went to Oklahoma AND U.F....
I like LSU allright, just Aberzombie started running his yap.
Hey, I can't help it if Tebow cries. Besides, the boy's one of them runs-a-lot quarterbacks - that ain't natural.
Either way, I'm hoping the game Saturday is a good one. I hate big blow outs. Give me an exciting, edge-of-your seat finish. And no matter what, it's a good bet we'll have another SEC National Championship this year.
I promise though, Heathy, if the Gators go to the big game, I'll not only cheer for them, I'll refrain from mocking Tebow for at least one week prior to the game.
I kinda want to play Oklahoma though, on account of my wifes' cousin. We were up there 4 years ago, and my son had a Gators jersey on, and he says, "why don't you get him a real team's jersey? Like OU?
Manomanomanoman am I gonna give him crap.
He's kinda big though.
Ok, this is better :)
Edit: Ok, so i'm really REALLY hoping OU chokes against mizzou. I have wanted to see a McCoy/Tebow smackdown all year...
...I just don't have the heart to talk any smack.-10 dude points. Really. THIS. IS. FOOTBALL!!!!!
I demand you start the smackalicious whoopass I know you have in you!
Okay.
I wish we could play Texas, so everybody'd shut up when we wup em.
Man. Stop. You're killing me. Where's the heart? The passion? the realization that Muschamp's defense would grind the Gators to a weeping, grass stained, wishing they had just stayed at home, quivering mass of kineseology majoring nancyboys?
Duod.
We have multiple running backs that go three yards and blur into the endzone like a Star Trek ship going into warp.
They won't lay a finger on them. Nobody ever does.
Sure, none of those plodding lead-footed georgia/tennessee/alabama/south carolina tanks that run like they're in a bog y'all have played. Texas has SPEED on defense. Like a methhead on day nine, disassembling a toaster oven while peeking through the blinds speed... (ok, that made no sense...).
Remember why y'all weren't playing in the big game last year? Yeah, he's our defensive coordinator now.
And, seriously, McCoy? The epitome of tough. Even Tebow recognized in an interview.
My wife went to Oklahoma AND U.F....
I like LSU allright, just Aberzombie started running his yap.Hey, I can't help it if Tebow cries. Besides, the boy's one of them runs-a-lot quarterbacks - that ain't natural.
Either way, I'm hoping the game Saturday is a good one. I hate big blow outs. Give me an exciting, edge-of-your seat finish. And no matter what, it's a good bet we'll have another SEC National Championship this year.
I promise though, Heathy, if the Gators go to the big game, I'll not only cheer for them, I'll refrain from mocking Tebow for at least one week prior to the game.
Dudes, I tried to realign the thread back to where it started and you only want to talk about this year's fiasco.
BTW, I agree on the "I hope it is a good game". I used 8 hours of PTO when I had a night job to watch the 2006 Rose Bowl (USC/Texas). My biggest fear was that it would be over in the first or second quarter and I would be sitting back watching a boring game. Fortunately, my free time was very well spent.
...I just don't have the heart to talk any smack.-10 dude points. Really. THIS. IS. FOOTBALL!!!!!
I demand you start the smackalicious whoopass I know you have in you!
Okay.
I wish we could play Texas, so everybody'd shut up when we wup em.
Sorry Heathy. If Florida plays Texas, Tebow is going to cry.
Sorry Heathy. If Florida plays Texas, Tebow is going to cry....I just don't have the heart to talk any smack.-10 dude points. Really. THIS. IS. FOOTBALL!!!!!
I demand you start the smackalicious whoopass I know you have in you!
Okay.
I wish we could play Texas, so everybody'd shut up when we wup em.
See? This is what I'm talking about.
You forgot Hernandez, which.....everybody seems to do.
(edit) honestly, we're so good, I just don't have the heart to talk any smack.
You're right. And that guy probably wouldn't have seen any play time at all if CI hadn't blown out his knee before the season started.
Colt McCoy is tough, huh? Well allow me to retort...
linky. Check out the hits at the 1:30 and 2:20 marks in the video.
That's gonna leave a mark.
Colt McCoy...I could take him.
Tim Tebow...I could take him.
Let's face it, the only person on the face of the earth who actually scares me is my own mother. As a teenager I finally got the chance to jokingly boast "Hey mom, I'm bigger than you now. I can beat you up." She looked me dead in the eye and said, "That's OK, I'll just wait until you're sleeping and work you over with a baseball bat." That woman is EVIL!
The real reason that the BCS is crap is because of the ranking system. Currently Utah is 13-0 and is ranked either 6th or 7th, I can't remember off the top of my head. Florida is 11-1 and is ranked 4th. Now tell me that isn't a bunch of crap. Only in college sports are teams ranked via a glorified popularity contest. In the NFL a 13-0 team is always going to be ranked higher than an 11-1 team. And don't give me any of that crap about the strength of the schedule. The easist way to deal with that would be to have the sanctioning body determine the schedules, so everyone got an equally strong schedule, just like the NFL does.
Edit: Not to mention that the schedules are drawn up several years in advance and what seemed like a strong team when the schedule was made could become a crap team by the time you play them and vice versa.
The real reason that the BCS is crap is because of the ranking system. Currently Utah is 13-0 and is ranked either 6th or 7th, I can't remember off the top of my head. Florida is 11-1 and is ranked 4th. Now tell me that isn't a bunch of crap. Only in college sports are teams ranked via a glorified popularity contest. In the NFL a 13-0 team is always going to be ranked higher than an 11-1 team. And don't give me any of that crap about the strength of the schedule. The easist way to deal with that would be to have the sanctioning body determine the schedules, so everyone got an equally strong schedule, just like the NFL does.
Edit: Not to mention that the schedules are drawn up several years in advance and what seemed like a strong team when the schedule was made could become a crap team by the time you play them and vice versa.
Do you think Utah is better than Florida?