Alabama and Notre Dame will play for the BCS trophy on Monday night, farcically labeled the National Championship. Good for whichever team prevails. But if you watched the Cotton Bowl, you saw the best team in the country right now.
Texas A&M is the best team in college football right now. Were they the best throughout the entire? Probably not. But this was a team that started the season with a new coach and and a redshirt freshman at quarterback. It took some time to gel.
The postponement of their season opener hurt, as we discussed earlier. And the coming four-team playoff would not remedy the situation, as we broached that subject as well.
Congratulations to the Aggies on a great season. Johnny Manziel comes back. But not all of the starters do. Don't expect a BCS trophy game contender next year. Not that it can't happen, just don't expect it.
The college football post season is broken. Steps are being made in right direction. But we aren't there yet.
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Showing posts with label Notre Dame. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
College Football 2012
Now that the 2012 College Football regular season has come to close, we are now subjected to the worst post season in all of sport. While the regular season brought much excitement, including the emergence of Johnny "Football/Touchdown/Heisman" Manziel, the post/bowl/silly season brings many yawns including a New Year's Day game matching up Northwestern and Mississippi State. Mark your calendars for that one.
We could go off on a lengthy rant about the entire bowl process (which somehow excludes the second most prolific offensive team in Louisiana Tech) but we will focus here on the BCS Trophy game and the upcoming four team playoff starting in two years.
While we are no fans of the current system, it seems to get it right most years just by sheer luck. This year, not so much. We are not convinced that either of the teams (Notre Dame and Alabama) are the best two teams in the country. There is circumstantial evidence to back this up. However, there is no concrete evidence to argue otherwise. Notre Dame is undefeated playing a schedule that did not include any cupcakes. Alabama won the SEC, which many argue is the best conference in the nation.
We think any among Oregon, Texas A&M, Stanford, Kansas State, Florida and LSU could beat either of those teams on a neutral field at any given time. Or not. It's that close.
So, things would be better if we had the four team playoff in effect this season, right?
In the words of Lee Corso, "Not so fast, my friend."
Sports Illustrated had a mock selection committee pick the four playoff teams here. Very interesting read.
But are you comfortable with a final four of Notre Dame, Alabama, Oregon and Florida? We're not. While that would provide for three very interesting games, leaving out Stanford (who beat Oregon), Texas A&M (who beat Alabama), Kansas State and LSU just seems wrong to us.
The four team playoff is a step in the right direction. But it is not that much better than what we have right now. We say either go all in with an eight team playoff, or keep it as is, or maybe scrap the whole thing and go back to the old way and end everything on January 1.
Oh yeah, and you kids get off of our lawn.
We could go off on a lengthy rant about the entire bowl process (which somehow excludes the second most prolific offensive team in Louisiana Tech) but we will focus here on the BCS Trophy game and the upcoming four team playoff starting in two years.
While we are no fans of the current system, it seems to get it right most years just by sheer luck. This year, not so much. We are not convinced that either of the teams (Notre Dame and Alabama) are the best two teams in the country. There is circumstantial evidence to back this up. However, there is no concrete evidence to argue otherwise. Notre Dame is undefeated playing a schedule that did not include any cupcakes. Alabama won the SEC, which many argue is the best conference in the nation.
We think any among Oregon, Texas A&M, Stanford, Kansas State, Florida and LSU could beat either of those teams on a neutral field at any given time. Or not. It's that close.
So, things would be better if we had the four team playoff in effect this season, right?
In the words of Lee Corso, "Not so fast, my friend."
Sports Illustrated had a mock selection committee pick the four playoff teams here. Very interesting read.
But are you comfortable with a final four of Notre Dame, Alabama, Oregon and Florida? We're not. While that would provide for three very interesting games, leaving out Stanford (who beat Oregon), Texas A&M (who beat Alabama), Kansas State and LSU just seems wrong to us.
The four team playoff is a step in the right direction. But it is not that much better than what we have right now. We say either go all in with an eight team playoff, or keep it as is, or maybe scrap the whole thing and go back to the old way and end everything on January 1.
Oh yeah, and you kids get off of our lawn.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Notre Dame: Overrated and Overblown
Many claim that college football is better when Notre Dame is good. We, however, do not subscribe to this. In fact, we believe college football is worse when Notre Dame is good.
Let's explore this, shall we?
The past few years, while Notre Dame has been irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, CFB has flourished. CFB has shown, over and over again, it is not dependent on the Fighting Irish and their overblown sense of self worth.
One might contend that CFB has never been more popular across the country as a whole. And Notre Dame had absolutely zero to do with this. CFB has thrived as ND has floundered.
Now, here's the real rub. Even as ND has been nowhere near the BCS trophy game conversation in recent years, they still garnered way too much media attention.
"Will Notre Dame ever get back to a place of relevance?"
While we are old enough to remember when ND was in the national title hunt almost every year, there is a whole generation that must wonder what all the fuss is about. Now that they actually are, help us all.
Let's explore this, shall we?
The past few years, while Notre Dame has been irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, CFB has flourished. CFB has shown, over and over again, it is not dependent on the Fighting Irish and their overblown sense of self worth.
One might contend that CFB has never been more popular across the country as a whole. And Notre Dame had absolutely zero to do with this. CFB has thrived as ND has floundered.
Now, here's the real rub. Even as ND has been nowhere near the BCS trophy game conversation in recent years, they still garnered way too much media attention.
"Will Notre Dame ever get back to a place of relevance?"
While we are old enough to remember when ND was in the national title hunt almost every year, there is a whole generation that must wonder what all the fuss is about. Now that they actually are, help us all.
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