WARNING!!! OFF_TOPIC Football thread

[rainmaker]

Wow, Kansas just missed a FG from under 30 yards. Could it be that there is a curse at #2?

[Nevadaref]

Mizz leads KU 14-0 at this point.

Note especially for rainmaker: I'm going out now to meet a couple of friends for a meal and some beers!

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Mizz leads KU 14-0 at this point.

Note especially for rainmaker: I'm going out now to meet a couple of friends for a meal and some beers!

... and I needed to know that because.....

wow, nasty sack/fumble. Kansas is in serious trouble.

.... AND missed another FG, on the other side. Oh, my gosh!

[rainmaker]

Kansas finally gets off a good play. Let's see if they can capitalize.

Wow. Half way through the third quarter before they can score.

[rainmaker]

Well, I started this thread because Oregon was doing so well, and it was so much fun to brag a little. They were at second place for a week or two and then fell so fast that the sucking sound has pretty much drowned out everything else here in the state. Fell completely off the rankings this week. Oh, well. Congrats to MTD's buckeyes. And enjoy this week at first place, because I doubt it will last.

[Nevadaref]

It's official. The BCS just announced that it will be Ohio State and LSU.

[Nevadaref]

Other BCS bowl games:

Sugar: #10 Hawaii vs. #5 Georgia
Fiesta: #4 Oklahoma vs. #9 West Virginia
Rose: #7 USC vs. #13 Illinois
Orange: #3 Virginia Tech vs. #8 Kansas

Last week's #1 team, Missouri, is the big loser by falling completely out of the BCS even though they are #6 in the final poll and beat Kansas head-to-head. I guess having only one loss is more important.

[Nevadaref]

It's a shame that we can't see Georgia vs. USC.

[Nevadaref]

If anyone is interested in how the BCS bowl pairings were made, it went this way.

NCG #1 Ohio State vs. #2 LSU by rule
The Rose bowl gets the first replacement pick and the Sugar Bowl gets the second.

Contractual Champions are:
#7 USC in the Rose, #3 Virginia Tech in the Orange, and #4 Oklahoma in the Fiesta. They are written in.

At this point the following teams are eligible for selection: #5 Georgia, #6 Missouri, #8 Kansas, #9 West Virginia, #10 Hawaii, #11 Arizona State, #12 Florida, #13 Illinois, #14 Boston College. *Note WV and Hawaii must be taken with the final two selections if they are not chosen earlier due to their automatic qualifications by winning their respective conference championships and Hawaii meeting the additional requirement of being in the BCS top 12.

Rose selects at-large qualifier Illinois to match with contractual champion USC. Rose bowl is set. It is possible that they attempted to select Georgia, but the Sugar bowl had the right to block that as Georgia is from the same conference as the contractual champion that the Sugar lost to the NCG. It is also possible that the Rose was determined to get a Big Ten/Pac-10 match up and thus Illinois was their first choice. Either way Illinois was chosen over at least six higher ranked teams. That doesn't seem right to me. Conference affiliation shouldn't deprive a better team from a current year from selection due to some traditional matchup. The best possible teams should get into this.

Sugar selects #5 Georgia. Georgia is the highest ranked team available and is from the SEC which is the conference champ that the Sugar bowl lost. This eliminates #12 Florida from a BCS game due to two SEC schools already being picked.

The bowls now selected teams to fill their remaining slots in this order: Orange, Fiesta, Sugar.

At this point, the following schools qualify for selection: #6 Missouri, #8 Kansas, #9 West Virginia, #10 Hawaii, #11 Arizona State, #14 Boston College.

The Orange decided upon #8 Kansas. That choice meant that the final two slots must go to West Virginia and Hawaii. All other schools including #6 Missouri are out of contention for a BCS game. Even if Hawaii had not been an automatic qualifier #6 Missouri could not play in a BCS bowl at this point as now two Big 12 teams have slots. So all but two teams came off the board with this first selection.

The Fiesta now picked #9 West Virginia over #10 Hawaii. That left #10 Hawaii as the opponent for Georgia in the Sugar bowl.

So the pairings and team choice really came down to two big choices. The first by the Rose bowl and the second by the Orange bowl. In both selections higher ranked teams were passed over. This analysis gives good insight as to why it is that the best matchups don't take place in the BCS games and why many deserving teams don't get to participate.

[DonInKansas]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Last week's #1 team, Missouri, is the big loser by falling completely out of the BCS even though they are #6 in the final poll and beat Kansas head-to-head. I guess having only one loss is more important.

I guess Missouri should have avoided having their butts handed to them by Oklahoma twice then, hmmmm? At least the KU/MU game wasn't over in the 3rd quarter.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by DonInKansas

I guess Missouri should have avoided having their butts handed to them by Oklahoma twice then, hmmmm? At least the KU/MU game wasn't over in the 3rd quarter.

How many times did Kansas play Oklahoma this year?

Oh, so that's how they "avoided having their butts handed to them by Oklahoma."

I guess you think that head-to-head competition isn't the best way to determine who the better team is.