The Evil and Despised Alabama Crimson Crud
They are arrogant, obsessed and they have a payroll higher than most NFL teams, but Bama is in. This is a fallen world and evil sometimes wins. Alabama won enough to earn a spot.
Of course, it doesn’t matter how many they win as long as they lose ONE MORE GAME this season. All people of sound mind and good will are hoping for that.
The Team with the HORRIBLE uniforms (from Oregon)
Dale, could you please tell your Ducks to consult a fashion expert. They are really good, but watching them in those uniforms is just horrible.
In a side note, with Wisconsin’s troubles tonight, we can rejoice that the Heisman Trophy does not show uniform color. It’s going to Mariota.
The UNDEFEATED Florida State Seminoles.
They are hated almost as much as the Crimson Crud, but they are undefeated in a Power 5 conference and they are the defending champions. They have to be in. Every game has been an adventure and many have been ugly, but they have outscored the other team in every single one. 13-0.
It would be a travesty of justice to leave FSU ought, no matter how people feel about Jameis Winston.
That leaves THREE TEAMS FOR ONE SPOT!
The Ohio State Buckeyes – Big 10 champs and a complete dismantling of a VERY GOOD Wisconsin team with their 3rd string quarterback. I’m guessing the three teams that are in are hoping OSU gets left out. They could beat anyone on a given day. They could win. But they lost an easy game early, right after Braxton Miller got hurt.
The TCU Horned Frogs – Co-champs of the Big-12 with a deserving resume. Only loss was to Baylor in a crazy game. Many of their wins have been impressive. But, on the other hand, they are called “Horned Frogs” and that works against them.
The Baylor Bears – Co-champs of the Big-12 and were the victors of the head-to-head game against TCU. They lost one they shouldn’t have lost. Amazing offense.
AND THE WINNER IS… THE Ohio State University Buckeyes. Did you see what they did to Wisconsin yesterday, after losing their second quarterback to season ending injury? Take 2 QBs off any of the other teams and ask if they would be in the discussion. The answer is no.
I have spoken. The NCAA selection committee SHALL obey!
As a Buckeye, how can I not but agree!
“They are arrogant, obsessed and they have a payroll higher than most NFL teams,” did a Yankees fan really type this as ridicule of some other?
🙂
Get outta my head, Dean. Lol!
It will probably be Alabama, Florida St, Ohio St, and Oregon. But, it should be 1. Alabama 2. Mississippi St. 3. Ole Miss 4. LSU
David 🙂
David,
Don’t you wish they would have gone go to an 8 team playoff this year so UT could have gotten in?
It would have had to have been about a 128 team playoff for Tennessee to get in.
Hey now, Dave, the Vols went 6-6, this year! We’re going to a bowl. We might have made into the playoffs it was a 35 team playoff.
But, we’re rebuilding. And, Michigan is not gonna get our Coach. He’s staying put. So, watch out, next year!
David
Maybe 65 teams.
Seriously, ParsonMike, I do wish they would go to an 8 team playoff. I think that would be the most fair. You?
David
Volfan,
Seems fair.
5 power conferences champs and 3 at large teams.
If they don’t select Baylor, our president is going to appoint a special investigator to get down to the bottom of it.
Fortunately, Baylor players do not wear blue dresses.
Sorry.
🙂
Some people are saying that since the Big 12 does not play a championship game that Ohio St. should get the 4th spot. After all, the other Power Conferences have to play an extra, tough game, which the Big 12 teams do not.
I can see that. Of course, Baylor and TCU can’t help that. They’re in the Big 12, and that’s just how it is.
David
Question: Which of these teams could lose their top 2 quarterbacks and still be in the discussion?
OSU did something amazing this week.
Question: Would you have predicted that Ohio State would’ve done this amazing something before they did it? I’m a (real) baseball guy, so there’s no skin off my nose, but it seems to me that if the criteria by which football teams will be measured is their performance with their third-string quarterback, then let’s force them all to play a game with their third-string quarterback… …or, if the measure is going to be what they accomplish on the football field during a season… It’s amazing that a game so unlike ladies’ olympic figure skating should be graded by a system… Read more »
That’s the downside of having the championship determined by polls. This current system is a step in the right direction. However, there will be teams left out of the tourney that probably could win it. Until there is an 8 team system, it’s still a beauty show in the hands of judges.
Perhaps is we has sought counsel from France, that would settle the issues.
Perhaps “IF,” if we has sought counsel from the French….
Now there is no humor in it. Threw off the whole timing. But, I will take a misspell over a lime green suit on Miller any day.
I make that suit look GOOD.
As a Buckeye fan, my understanding was that they were picked because, playing so dominantly with a third string QB showed how strong the team and the program is around that position. It’s not what Cardale Jones did that impressed them, it was how the team around him stepped up with such force.
Just my 2 cents
I agree with everything you wrote, Dave, but the uniform comment is a little disingenuous coming from the man with the lime green suit. Seriously, I don’t believe an undefeated FSU is a better team than any of the next three. I was pulling for GA Tech so that FSU could justifiably be knocked out of contention. I don’t see that happening now. For the committee to place TCU above Ohio St. or Baylor over the past few weeks has been ridiculous. The Horny Toads (this is, of course, the proper name for the little lizard) were beaten by a… Read more »
Lest we forget:
I was hoping that the photo would paste, but click on the link. You’ll get the “picture”.
The 9th and 10th place teams will whine but they will not be legitimate tourney winners. Baylor and TCU are out, but the argument could be made that either one had a chance to win a game, or the whole thing.
We need 8 teams.
The Big Twelve, with not one but TWO outstanding teams, may get left out of the tourney entirely, a conference punished mostly for not having a championship game. Imagine if TCU played Baylor AGAIN for the conference championship. Would that last victory against a Top Ten foe at least get ONE of these teams in the playoffs? In the playoff selection era, a Conference Championship Game is huge!
Rick speaks truth.
As a Big XII guy, I’d say this: If we still had a championship like we did when we had 12 teams it likely wouldn’t be Baylor vs TCU. We were divided north/south…
Baylor would get the nod over TCU and probably play Kansas State, because Baylor has the head to head.
Whatever the reasons, it is (metaphorically) criminal to have TCU ranked above Baylor or declared co-conference champs.
That, and the issues with FSU’s ranking, I’m failing to see how this year is better than the much loathed controversies of the bcs…
I am preaching a message this morning entitled, “One More Night With The Frogs.” In Exodus 8:9 Moses ask Pharaoh to name the time and the plague of frogs would be destroyed. Pharaoh answers tomorrow. Tomorrow!
My opening commentary on Pharaoh is he must have been a UT graduate.
Well, it’s in….Alabama vs. Ohio St. and Oregon vs. Florida St. The Big 12 left out due to no championship game.
The Big 12 should add the teams, and have a championship game. They could add Memphis, Houson, BYU, or Boise St.
Also, Mississippi St. should have been in the 4 team playoff……I know this will draw the scowl of Dave Miller and other SEC haters, but deep down yall know this is true!! 😉
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11992914/college-football-playoff-alabama-crimson-tide-oregon-ducks-florida-state-seminoles-ohio-state-buckeyes-inaugural-playoff
David
A perfect playoff would be one with NO SEC teams. But one team per conference is the right thing to do.
Giving all SEC teams the death penalty would be the right thing, of course, but short of that, giving them only 1 team in the playoff is best.
Here’s what an 8 team playoff might look like:
1Alabama12 – 1
2Oregon12 – 1
3Florida St.13 – 0
4Ohio St.12 – 1
5Baylor11 – 1
6TCU11 – 1
7Mississippi St.10 – 2
8Michigan St.10 – 2
That looks good. That would be exactly right…in my very humble, but very accurate opinion.
David
That would be a great playoff.
It just so happens that this year there are 8 teams with 2 or fewer losses in the power 5. Boise State has 2 losses, but they’ve got to join a better conference to get consideration.
Gary Patterson of TCU just showed a LOT of class talking about not being picked. Major thumbs up to him.
David
Well, if CBS is guessing right, these bowl matchups would be very interesting, indeed. They have the Vols in the Music City Bowl against Louisville.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/bowls/predictions
DAvid
Elvis was a Vol fan!
Figures. He was a mess.
A lot of good it did him.
Abraham Lincoln was a Vol fan!
Assassination.
Dave,
Have you seen the Bowl Game that the TN Vols are playing? I’m beginning to think there’s some Divine intervention in this. The Vols are playing IOWA in the Taxslayer Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida!!!! IOWA!!!!
Oh my goodness! lol
David
Here’s the Vols team reaction to being picked for the 2015 Taxslayer(Gator) Bowl.
http://youtu.be/piTZd2f4d4s
The Hawks lost their last two games, so they didn’t get to go to a real bowl game – they have to play the Vols instead.
Just for you Vol,
A little boy and and his mother were walking in a cemetery when they came upon a headstone that read “Here lies an Iowa graduate and honest man.” The little boy asked “Mommy, why did they bury 2 people in there?”
Dean,
Lol
OSU lost to VIrginua Tech – soundly. TCU lost to Baylor by 3 and beat everyone else. Baylor lost the West Va. And beat everyone else. TCU was 3rd going into weekend – won by 50+ and dropped several spots. That makes no sense. Alabama and Oregon deserve to be in the tournament – Imo FSU and OSU are, to put it civilly, legacy picks. Although I will say that FSU certainly has a strong case of being there – 29 straight wins – undefeated this season I’ll be at some of the games were ugly – but Ohio State… Read more »
Of the TWELVE people on the Selection Committee, only ONE had ties to the Big Twelve Conference. All other conferences were much better represented.
You have an Iowa running back, and an Iowa wide receiver, and an Iowa linebacker riding in the back seat of a car. Who is driving?
A cop.
And, of course, Dave Miller would be in the trunk!
David 🙂
Kind of off topic, here….but, I thought I’d just give yall a little treat from the South…a bluesy, rockabilly song about something all of us, Southerners, love…that makes our mouths water…..especially my Grandmother’s dumplin’s….
https://soundcloud.com/scott-rogers-25/chicken-n-dumplins?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook
I do not believe the Big 12 was punished for not having a championship game. I believe they were punished because Baylor and TCU were the two best teams in their league. If Texas and Oklahoma had the exact same records and bodies of work as TCU and Baylor I suspect Ohio State would not be in the final four and the defense for them being left out would have been what we heard all year – Big 10 is the worst power 5 conference this year. We are kidding if we think name recognition doesn’t matter some.
Yep, that is what I meant by calling OSU a “legacy pick”.
I am not even saying that is a bad thing…I just wish they would be honest about it.
Dean,
This Baylor Bear thinks you nailed it.