2008-09 College Bowl Season

FLA has ran the no-huddle hurry up offense before. and with Teabow at the helm I expect them to do it a few drives this game as well just to throw off the OK defense. I think though most of the game FLA will eat clock to give its defense time to rest, and to keep OKS offense off the field. If FLA was smart and only cared about winning and not looking good, they would play slow on offense, to keep FLAs D fresh and OK offense on the bench for as long as possible, but doing this they have to get into the endzone after eating as much clock as possible field goals will not win this game for them.
 
SandraC,

While Leaving Las Vegas is depressing at times, it's hands down Nic Cage's finest work. There isn't a close second anywhere in his movie career to this truly outstanding display of thespian talents.

Great effort also turned in by Elizabeth Shue. I wish she worked more.

An epic flick.

Finished watching the movie, it was excellent. But still so sad. Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue were both amazing, and I'm glad I watched it.

But if I watch it again in the Spring right after the Rangers are eliminated from the playoffs, I think someone is going to have to talk me in off the ledge...


Sandra
 
2. The Rose Bowl, to me, is no longer must-see. It's turned into an annual USC lovefest with those annoying-as-hell Song Girls. Somebody in the Pac 10 needs to grow a set and STOP THIS DESTRUCTION OF THE GRANDDADDY!

Wow, not often you hear a guy saying something negative about the Song Girls!!!


Sandra
 
Whats wrong with USC? Its not their fault they are the best team in the PAC10.. They do their part, the rest of the conference needs to step up. Its also not USCS fault that they kill the big10 each rose bowl.
 
If Sabres were king, he'd get rid of that "two teams per conference" BCS rule.

Yes, Texas Tech lost their bowl game, but at least their bowl game was ENTERTAINING, unlike that Cincinnati/Virginia Tech snoozer.
 
If Sabres were king, he'd get rid of that "two teams per conference" BCS rule.

Yes, Texas Tech lost their bowl game, but at least their bowl game was ENTERTAINING, unlike that Cincinnati/Virginia Tech snoozer.


Agreed! :up


Cincinnati/Virginia Tech shouldn't get a free pass to the BCS just because of the weak conferences they play in.

Texas Tech finished in a three way tie with the #1 and #3 teams in the country, and yet they're shut out of the BCS because the Big East/ACC needs a representative.

It's sort of like an NFL team like the Cardinals getting into the playoffs......... ONLY because of the pathetic division they play in. ;)
 
MUST read article in SI about the National Championship!

I don't know about you, but he sure as hell convinced me.....!:up:yes

Oklahoma and Florida can battle for the BCS. But we've already crowned the true national champ.

by Rick Reilly

The Utes trampled Alabama to complete a perfect season. How are they not national champions?

Some gifts people give are pointless: Styling mousse to Dick Vitale. An all-you-can-eat card to Kate Moss. The BCS Championship given to Oklahoma or Florida.

It means nothing because the BCS has no credibility. Florida? Oklahoma? Who cares? Utah is the national champion.

The End. Roll credits.

Argue with this, please. I beg you. Find me anybody else that went undefeated. Thirteen-and-zero. Beat four ranked teams. Went to the Deep South and seal-clubbed Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. The same Alabama that was ranked No. 1 for five weeks. The same Alabama that went undefeated in the regular season. The same Alabama that Florida beat in order to get INTO the BCS Championship game in the first place.

FIND ME ANYBODY ELSE THAT WENT UNDEFEATED. THIRTEEN-AND-ZERO. BEAT FOUR RANKED TEAMS. WENT TO THE DEEP SOUTH AND SEAL-CLUBBED ALABAMA IN THE SUGAR BOWL.

Yeah, that's how it is now in the shameful, money-grubbing world of college football. If you're Florida and you beat Alabama, you get a seat in the title game. If you're Utah, you get a seat on your sofa.

Hey, remind me: What do they give out for one of those BCS things anyway? It's been so long since I cared. Something from Sears? This is the sixth year in the past 10 that the title has been in dispute under this cash-grab, fan-dis, monopoly that the BCS has created. Which is why the title game just doesn't matter anymore. It's like being named Miss Ogallala. Or Best Amish Electrician.

Just take a look at the teams that think they're worthy of being called national champs:

USC? Great year. Wonderful. Let's all go to SkyBar and celebrate. But it lost to Oregon State, a team Utah beat.

Texas? You think beating Ohio State by a nubby three points gets you the title? The Big Ten was 1-6 in bowl games! That's like pinning David Spade!

Florida and Oklahoma? They lost. Utah never did.

So that's it. Utah is the national champion. The Utes should probably have two now, actually. They went undefeated in 2004, too, and their coach still thinks they were the best team in the land. Smart fella named Urban Meyer. Coaches Florida now.

By the way, we're calling our title the "national" championship because it actually includes the whole nation*—all 119 Division I schools—unlike the BCS, which includes 66. Yeah, the BCS somehow eliminated the middleman—the NCAA. The conferences these schools play in take their dump trucks full of cash straight from the TV networks and fairness can go suck a lemon.

Do me a favor. Call Ohio State president Gordon Gee and ask him why he won't support a playoff. He's one of the most powerful presidents in the NCAA. He could get it done. If he says anything other than, "We don't want to share the loot" then you know he's lying his bow tie off.

"This is not how we normally do things in America," says Utah president Michael Young. "In America, quality usually wins, not conspiracy. And there's a reason people usually enter into a conspiracy. It's money. You make money doing it. And those that are in on the conspiracy want to stay in and keep everybody else out."

Sure, BCS blowhards will hand you schlock about how the college football season is like a playoff, how it's an elimination tournament every week. Really? Well, how come Florida and Oklahoma weren't eliminated with their losses? Utah ran the table, beat everybody set in front of them, including Ala-damn-bama in no less than the Sugar Bowl, and gets the bagel.

Oh, by the way? It was Utah's eighth straight bowl win, the nation's longest streak. Among the losers during that run? Let's see USC, Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh, and now the legendary Houndstooth Hats.

"What else do we have to prove?" asks Utah's magical quarterback, Brian Johnson. Good question. He and the Utes essentially whipped Alabama at home. Handed Nick Saban a garlic necklace to wear the entire off-season. Stepped on his team's neck 21-0 in the first three possessions and never looked back. Let's see. Who was it that was losing to Alabama until nearly six minutes into the fourth quarter? Oh, yeah. Florida.

What, you want the Utes to win a spelling bee? Make a prize-winning souffle? Knock up Angelina Jolie? What?

It just slays me. It really does.

Call Myles Brand, president of the asleep-at-the-wheel NCAA, and ask him if he and his greedy presidents are going to stand in defiance of president-elect Barack Obama, who wants a playoff and wants it yesterday.

Ask Brand what he's going to do if Obama starts asking the Justice Department to look into anti-trust hearings against the BCS. The Utah Attorney General has already launched an investigation into that very thing. Or ask him what he'll do if Obama asks the Department of Education to consider withholding federal funds from these schools that have entered into this secret club called the BCS. You don't think playing in the title game means millions in general-fund donations for a school? That's as unfair as anything Title IX fought against.

Until all these people do the right thing, I'll be celebrating with the true national champions—the undefeated, untied Utah Utes. (Our new slogan: Utahk about a team!)

Lemonades for everybody!

[ame="http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3815656"]Rick Reilly: No question, Utah is the national champion - ESPN The Magazine[/ame]
 
But how do we know we got Alabama's best effort? IMO, Utah had a lot more to play for. Alabama, not so much. Kirk Herbstreit called this upset in the SEC Championship postgame press conference 6 weeks ago.

Not a knock on the Utes, a knock on the system for causing this type of question to even be a part of it...
 
But how do we know we got Alabama's best effort? IMO, Utah had a lot more to play for. Alabama, not so much. Kirk Herbstreit called this upset in the SEC Championship postgame press conference 6 weeks ago.

Not a knock on the Utes, a knock on the system for causing this type of question to even be a part of it...

It is amazing how people can actually SEE that another team or player either "quit" or didn't give their "best effort".....:rolleyes: IF ANYONE was that good, they sure as sh** wouldn't be here. Do you think Alabama wanted to lose to a team they probably would consider from an inferior conference after almost winning the 'mighty SEC'?:confused:
 
THIS convinced me:



Tell me who did that AND stayed undefeated in the top 5 OTHER than Utah??
Infact, I am sure not too many teams could say they BEAT 4 ranked teams in their schedule.:rolleyes:

And which 4 teams did the Utes beat this year??? I'm looking at their schedule on ESPN and it only lists them playing 3 ranked teams this year....

TCU
BYU
Alabama

Sorry, but those wins are a lot less inspiring than Texas', Oklahoma's or several SEC teams. Rick Reily's wrong on this one.
 

Time for College football playoffs?

Tebow coming back for more...

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