(No Ratings Yet)“If this was a playoff game…” (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted January 5, 2007 at 12:10 amBarry Melrose just said (about a regular season hockey game), “If this was a playoff game, we’d be talking about this one as a game for the ages.”This is more than enough argument not to institute a playoff in college football. If there were a playoff,…
Tags: football (No Ratings Yet)Better championship options (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted January 3, 2007 at 3:49 pmI like the soccer model for several reasons, and the FA illustrates most of them: in the FA, there are three domestic championships awarded, plus several international ones. The first is for the best league record in the Premier League; that team has w…
No tag for this post. (No Ratings Yet)Bowl games are better (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted January 3, 2007 at 3:19 pmEveryone is telling me I should want a playoff in college football. But I don’t want a playoff. And I think playoff would make things worse, not better.For all the people claiming that the Boise State-Oklahoma game is reason to have a playoff, I call b…
Tags: ESPN, football (No Ratings Yet)Boise St.-Oklahoma (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted January 2, 2007 at 11:41 amAn interesting subplot of the Fiesta Bowl, which Boise State won 43-42 in what PhantomBear called “the most exciting 3 minutes of football in 24 years”: Boise State’s football budget ($3.5 million) is essentially equal to Bob Stoops’ annual salary.
Tags: football (No Ratings Yet)CFR is on the march! (Our Sturdy Golden Bear)
Posted January 1, 2007 at 10:20 amCollege Football Resource is on the campaign against a playoff; in a frankly nauseating trend, Sports Illustrated and ESPN are on the campaign for a playoff. Who says the media doesn’t create the stories it reports on?For the record, once more, I’m aga…
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