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Year after year, I get overwhelmed with enthusiasm when college football season gets here. And yet, every single year, I always find myself disappointed at the season’s end. Not because the college football year has ended, but because of the travesty known as “bowl season” was far from entertaining.
Tonight, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame will attempt to prove that their 12-0 record and No. 1 rankings are no fluke against what could be the makings of a dynasty in the second-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide.
Notre Dame will face a top SEC team in the BCS National Championship Game. Yawn. Rectifying college football’s meaningless postseason, and making it halfway as exciting as March is for hoops, is easy, however.
I confess my belief that the Southeastern Conference is the strongest in college football. But (and this is what will get me in trouble in my adopted home state of Tennessee), the SEC isn’t nearly as good as the BCS Standings suggest.
There is absolutely no way that you can objectively say that this Notre Dame team is worse than Oregon or Kansas State. Jon Washburn explains why.
The BCS bowl games are coming up after the New Year’s Day NFL games Sunday, with the Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl kicking things off Monday. Here is a quick preview of the BCS bowl games with picks and current point spreads, plus the complete TV schedule.
Are there bowl games that are going to be more entertaining than others? Of course, but Tyler Juranovich really recommend you to try to watch as many of them as possible. Here is the complete bowl game TV schedule, including the spreads for each game.
Every season in college football there is always a strong demand for a playoff, and this year it might be one of the strongest ever. If college football had a playoff, this is how it might look this season.
Why are the Michigan Wolverines likely headed for the Sugar Bowl while the Michigan State Spartans are headed for the Outback?
In these finals hours before all the ballots are cast for the polls that will determine which team finishes second in the final BCS standings and gets the opportunity to face LSU in January 9′s National Championship Game, I figured I’d make a last-minute case for Oklahoma State, whom I feel deserves that #2 spot.
A friend of mine passed along this note to me yesterday, but I forgot to post about it. Seeing as how the Big Ten Championship Game is tomorrow though, I figured I better get something out now or else I’d have forever kept this useful information from all of the loyal Naptown denizens who frequent MSF.
If the BCS is supposed to pit the two best teams in the nation against each other in the national championship game, then this year, it will have worked if LSU and Alabama end up meeting to decide the BCS National Championship.
Josh Tinley’s regular Things I Learned This Weekend post is a day late, but it most certainly is not a dollar short. In fact, Josh added a few extra things to compensate for his tardiness.
Happy Muppets week. Here are a seven things we learned another sad and tragic November sports weekend.
Josh Tinley explains how a 1- or 2-loss team from a non-AQ league could realistically clinch a BCS bowl bid, why Oregon is more deserving than Alabama of a rematch with LSU, and why Major League Soccer needs to shift its schedule or risk losing casual fans.
