The Rest of College Football

[UMStan White]

If Arkansas beat LSU then the "rematch" is Arkansas and Alabama unless Alabama loses to Auburn or in the SEC championship. An SEC "rematch" is inevitable. Just another reason to scrap the BCS.

[UMStan White]

"Alabama has the toughest SoS according to this
College FB Team Strength of Schedule Rating'

Not according to Saragin"

Kansas 1
Missouri 2
Texas A&M 3
Baylor 4
Kansas State 5
Oklahoma 6
USC 18
Oregon 21
Alabama 24
LSU 25

One of these two are smokin' it.

[Jamie H]

Two points:

1. I disagree, Jamie. What if a team loses a couple OOC games early in the year then runs the table in their conference? Say Michigan next year loses to Bama and at ND then wins their conference at 7-1 with a CCG victory to be 10-3 overall. Would that resume' make them more deserving than a one-loss Bama team from this year? When looking at who deserves to play in the title game, the teams' entire season should be evaluated.

2. By your logic, Michigan shouldn't have been considered for the title game in 2006. I thought you've argued in the past that Michigan got jobbed by gerry-mandered SEC votes to prevent a rematch and elevate an SEC team into the title game. I don't disagree that the latter happened but I don't think winning your conference should necessarily bar a team from participation in the BCS championship game either.

As far as 2006, Michigan certainly WOULD have gotten a rematch with ohio had Arkansas beat Florida in the SEC CG. The problem this year is that Okie St. had a path to the NCG and blew it. It's not like Bama controlled their own destiny after they lost to LSU. I find it hard to complain about a rematch when Okie St., Stanford, Oregon, and Oklahoma ALL blew their chance to throw their hat in the ring. If at the end of the day Alabama is the best challenger left standing, so be it.

Michigan got royally screwed over in 2006. That doesn't change my opinion that you should have to be a conference champion to play in the title game. That ISN'T a rule, but it should be. If you can't win your conference, you can't win the national title. Of course, this assumes your conference doesn't have dumb-as-shit tiebreakers like the Big Ten used to have. I guess you should have to at least TIE for your conference championship if there is no championship game.

That doesn't change the fact that, under the system in place, Michigan was #2 at the end of their season in 2006. The system was then manipulated to intentionally drop Michigan to avoid the supposedly horrific rematch, the same rematch these asshole SEC hypocrits are now arguing for.

The truth? The SEC will say and do ANYTHING that advances their own interests, regardless of what is right, fair, or good for college football. They will scream in support of a rematch this season and then will turn around and do a 180 next season if a rematch in another conference were to take place. They change their entire supposed worldview on a dime to whatever ends up working out the best for them in the given moment, and they don't give a rats ass if they end up contradicting what they said even 5 minutes ago.

[Jeff Buchanan]

The thing that sucks in all of this is that the deciders - the greedy bastard that have the $$$$ - don't give a shit about what serious CFB fans say or think. They will produce whatever makes them more $$$$$. We can bitch alll we want about rematches, conference alignment, play-off systems, whatever. We little people don't matter. The sooner you come to grips with this reality, the sooner you'll stop worrying about it or offering solutions.

[Jamie H]

I wouldn't be bitching about the rematch if Urban Cryer and all the other SEC assholes hadn't taken to the airwaves to bitch 24-7 about it in 2006

[entropy]

Report: Sue Paterno denied pool access

ESPN.com news services | November 24, 2011
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A person close to former Penn State coach Joe Paterno's family has told The Associated Press his wife was turned away from a campus pool.

Sue Paterno is an avid swimmer known for taking early-morning laps in the pool. The person who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation said Wednesday night the rejection left the family saddened.

University spokesman Bill Mahon told The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, which first reported the pool rejection, he was unaware of any directive. The school had said last week that Paterno still held tenure.

School trustees fired Joe Paterno on Nov. 9 from the job he held for nearly a half-century in the aftermath of child sex abuse charges against former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.

Paterno also was recently diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer. The person said the coach was focused on beating the illness "and seeing the full truth" emerge.

Paterno testified before a grand jury looking into the abuse allegations that a graduate assistant told him in 2002 that he witnessed an incident in the shower in the team locker room. Prosecutors have said Paterno had passed on the information to his superior.

But Paterno has said specific actions alleged to have occurred in the grand jury report were not relayed to him. Paterno is not a target of the investigation, according to authorities.

Still, the state's top cop criticized the way school leaders handled allegations and said Paterno and other officials had a moral responsibility to do more.

His son, Scott, said last week in a statement that Joe Paterno's cancer was diagnosed during a follow-up visit for a bronchial illness. He requested privacy for the family.

"We're focusing on Wisconsin," linebacker Nate Stupar said, ahead of Penn State's game at Wisconsin this weekend. "(But) definitely we've been thinking about him, and we're hoping he's doing all right, and just praying for him."

The person close to the Paterno family told the AP that Paterno was receiving thousands of calls or messages from former players, alumni and other well-wishers, and that Paterno was encouraging patience and to trust in the truth.

Sue Paterno was a longtime fixture at the school and helped raise money for the library and organized Special Olympics on campus.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

[Jamie H]

If only Penn State had been that proactive about locking Sandusky out.

[hack]

From one stupid extreme to another, instead of deploying common sense the whole time.

[*JD*]

LSU & Barkansas involved in a much more entertaining game than that one in bammy.

[*JD*]

Well, after spotting them 14 points, LSU has opened up a can on Putrino.

[*JD*]

It just turned into a bigger can. 38-17.

At least they are showing they belong.

[whodean]

LSU's offensive performance today indicates again how good Alabama's defense was to hold them without a TD.

[*JD*]

And how poor Alabama's offense was to only muster up 6 points at home.

[whodean]

Don't you appreciate defense JD?

[*JD*]

Yes, as well as offense.

Don't get me wrong, bammy is in the conversation for who might be the 2nd best team but they came up short when it was time to prove themselves.

The main things proven today is that Arkansas is just an also-ran and LSU is solid.