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Better Sun Bowl gifts:
A year supply of Sunkist
A 2 liter of Sun Drop
A year supply of Sunscreen
Son's of Anarchy DVD Box Set
A shirt with the slogan "Sun's out, Guns out"
Oakley Sunglasses
A classic sundial
holy crap I'm glad you said that. I was going to leave work at noon that day to give me a a couple hours to pregame...
welp, guess im taking the whole day off.
and yes...I am on the east coast and yes I am totally just using it as an excuse to take a day off from work and yes I know it's actually at 2pm ET.
Right back at ya, man!
It could have gotten very messy with last year's mess in a playoff system.
The Bama could have played LSU in the title game, and then again in the first round of the playoffs, JUST to make it to the National Championship.
I'll just sit back and laugh when there are 3 out of 4 teams from the SEC in the playoff....
Won't matter in our case. I bet Exum gives his and the entire teams lineup of hair dryers to locks for love.
#thedaycarethatreallycares
Does anyone else ever feel a slight twinge of remorse that we were a founding member of the Big East and one of the first teams to leave it? Don't get me wrong, it was the right move for us.
What you have to understand about the computer rankings is that they require a shitload of data to be accurate. The first release is nowhere near as accurate as the last release. Anything you may see from Sagarin before week 8 is garbage and weeks 8-10 are only a little bit better. By the end of the season when all the data is included, his rankings are usually pretty spot on.
I dunno about that... Ohio State is definitely vulnerable. If sodding MICHIGAN can get to the point where one completion = upset? Clemson can definitely take them down.
It would be a committe that picks the teams. Since Bama played Auburn two weeks ago it would probably be:
#1 FSU vs #5 Stanford
#2 Auburn vs #4 MSU
Or at least that's how I would hope it would go.
This is almost as bad as getting Pam Ward'ed.
... because that happens SO MUCH in El Paso.
Seriously, confused by all these people who think it's inevitable it's going to be cold for the game.
More Football! (wipes chin)
Which is why I just mentioned to my boss I can't do a half day either. LOL I had almost forgotten this
as well.
Damn it! Well...I will be in all MAROON regardless. :)
I just realized something.
The game kicks off at 2:00pm ET. El Paso is exactly two hours behind the east coast. That's right, folks. Virginia Tech is ending the season with another noon game.
Does anyone know how the playoffs work next year? Would it have been FSU vs Michigan St and Auburn vs Alabama to determine who's in the NC? Or would Alabama been replaced by Standford or Baylor (only one school per conference in the playoffs?)
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# | This year marks the end the BCS era. Thoughts on BCS System on the whole? Sarcasm?
Coaches spend all week preparing for their next game. They only watch tape of teams they're playing. Additionally, assuming one only votes based on the current season (sorry OSU, your undefeated 2012 shouldn't have anything to do with your 2013 ranking), a coach probably can't offer a decent opinion of the first few teams he's watched on film; if ECU is the forth game of the season for VT, Beamer will only watch 3 ECU games from this season. And you want him to vote at the end of the year based on those three games he watched?
Two weeks ago there were probably 5-10 games that affected bowl destinations for ranked (or then ranked) teams. Do you really think Beamer/Jimbo/Saban etc watches all these games? The morning after beating UF, Jimbo was watching Duke film. Today through January, he's going to be watching Auburn film. He's not going to watch any Michigan State film to decide if he should vote them 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8.
Finally, there is an inherent bias in the coach's poll... Your vote (and your colleagues/friends' vote) can leverage your ranking.
I'm glad to see the BCS go but I am going to miss some of the drama it created and a few aspects of it as well. I'm really looking forward to the playoff system though. Who could disagree with more college football?
Except coaches have said that they don't really pay attention to anyone playing besides teams they play. Many have gone on record saying they don't even fill out their ballet and either give it to a GA or just copy a sports writers poll and they give bias to their own conference. They know the teams they're playing, but not the ones they don't. Beamer probably knows Miami and Georgia Tech like the back of his hand but knows very little about UCF or Arizona State.
But to his point, it is only game film of the teams that they're playing against. Now, this doesn't account for the 'other' team in the film that they're watching.
I've got no decision on the coaches poll - seems like a fun thing that CFB could rank VT #1 every damn week. hah
But then again, Boise won the Fiesta and Utah won two BCS bowls...
Sad that the ACC couldn't get it done with six out of the final eight teams being from the conference.
FSU will probably win one after losing EJ Manuel. Miami won one after hiring Larry Coker
Not exactly Manning, but you get the point.
Yeah the commentators on the BCS show (Rece, Palmer, Herbie, and Pollack, but maybe Holtz or May) suggested that Oregon fans, after being so disappointed in their season, wouldn't travel. Plus, they're spoiled at home and generally don't travel well anyway.
I would have rather seen Oregon Alabama in the Sugar and Clemson Oklahoma in the Orange. The Sugar matchup is a game everyone has wanted to see for a while, and the Big 12 (8?) used to have an Orange Bowl tie-in, so I think it would have made good sense. But the Sugar (Champions) Bowl gets the Big 12 starting next year, so it also makes sense.
Clemson is going to get plastered.
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