Send
us a photo or a link
Return to recent entries
Gators: Get Up and Go!
Alas...a hearteningly just outcome to the BCS mess!
My take: the Gators deserve it, hands down. They played the toughest schedule in the country -- including a wicked mid-season run against ranked opponents, nine to Michigan's six -- and Big Blue had their shot. My big problem with rematches is that they favor the team that lost the first time, and furthermore, they negate the meaning of the first game. I mean, by Michigan fan logic, even if they beat OSU in the last game of the season, shouldn't they just be TIED at the end of the season?? After all, losses don't matter that much do they?
My future advice to teams that want to gripe about not making the title game: first of all, win your conference. Conference runner ups don't deserve to play in the big one. And if you're the runner up of a weaker conference -- helloooOOOoooo Michigan -- well...forget it. I'm not a reflexive fan of the SEC in these situations, by the way. I just don't think this one was even close. And when the Gators beat OSU -- there I said it -- the whole discussion is going to seem pretty silly.
I had the good fortune to attend the SECCG on Saturday with a certain insane Gators fan and it was a blast watching him and his crew go berserk. This was our view.
Gator Central.
But my favorite moment of the evening came at half time when throngs of Gators fans packed the men's bathrooms because they were the only places in the building where the hoi polloi could watch USC - UCLA.
USC is driving late in the game.
Some guy named Booty throws an interception.
The Hogs played pretty well, but their offense doesn't allow them to come from very far behind, and a certain boneheaded punt return attempt put them in the hole. There's something really ugly and unfootball-y about Meyer's version of the spread -- it looks a little too delicate and dainty for my tastes -- but that's an aesthetic criticism. It's hard to defend, as the Buckeyes will learn soon enough, and I can't wait to see the outcome.
December 4, 2006 10:36 AM
| Link
|
Comments
(11)
Comments
1) The voters in the polls are tasked with voting for the two best teams - not the most "deserving," not what is "fair," and certainly not based on what they want to see on their televisions Jan. 8.
2) There is no BCS requirement that the two best teams have won their conference.
3)It is possible to play a team in the postseason that you beat earlier in the year in almost every other professional and collegiate sport. Why is D1 NCAA football any different? Further, did Florida beating FSU in 1996 after losing to them earlier in the season "negate" their national title?
4) Schedule has nothing to do with it. Florida didn't jump Michigan after its conference schedule; it jumped Michigan after beating Arkansas by 10 points in what the CBS commentator described at the time as a "sloppy" game. And BTW: I watched Florida run through that schedule. I saw LSU hand them a win on a platter in the form of 6 turnovers. I saw South Carolina choke - not once, but twice - deep in Florida territory with a chance to win. I saw them eeek out a one-point win over Tennessee. I saw them struggle against Vandy - a team that, BTW, Michigan dominated. You think that's gonna roll into Glendale and hang with OSU? Might as well start engraving the hardware right now: Ohio State - 2006 National Champions.
5) But all of that aside, if the voters felt that Florida was the better team all along, then they had a responsibility to vote that way from the start.
when the Weaselerines come calling to whine (see post above) remind that the only reason they only lost by 3 to Ohio State is that we turned the ball over three times in the third quarter. they only had the ball ONCE with a chance to take the lead in the second half, and promptly went 3 and out. if Ohio State had wanted more we could've come and got it - we were kneeling on the 50 when the clock went zero. so give it up Lloyd and Company.
now about that comment that UF will beat the Buckeyes....
"3 to Ohio State is that we turned the ball over three times in the third quarter...they only had the ball ONCE with a chance to take the lead in the second half, and promptly went 3 and out. if Ohio State had wanted more we could've come and got it - we were kneeling on the 50 when the clock went zero. so give it up Lloyd and Company."
Pardon my French, but blow it out your ass. Tressel torched us by running a shotgun with five wide all first half with a center who had a hand in a cast. Some of the risks of running a shotgun and a pass-first offense include: Botched snaps and interceptions. It was a three point game. I know so because that's what the scoreboard said.
this one right here goes out to danny boy's first comment
1)please wait for #5
2)hey let's as get technical as possible, like a eighth grade math teacher... everything isn't written in stone danny boy... besides the fact that a team that is the 2006 ucla bruins could defeat goliath is further proof that "GOD hates the BCS" (and Wolverines)
3)ahhhh yes... 1996 Nokia Sugar Bowl... let me count the ways
a.PRE-BCS
b.UF & FSU different conferences
c.it wasn't the only "national championship" game, as a 1 loss OSU eeked out a win over a previously undefeated ASU in the Rose Bowl, while UF drummed the 'noles for 52
d.gators didn't go in as sec RUNNERUPs (also known as second best, the #2 spot, 'like kissing your sister', or most recently... Michigan)
4)Schedule has everything to do with it... see down here in the SEC, there is this lil' ole thing that we like to call defense (aka LSU, Auburn), the rocky top (UT), the evil genius that is the ole' ball coach(USC the II), and on, and on... again the schedule should be and is everything to the south, and to the football gods(who also just happen to be from the south)... we can't put up glorified style points and run up the score in the big eleven, wait no ten, nooo definately eleven, ok ten, the big ten... and michigan dominated vandy?... that game was 13-7 going in to half time danny boy... i guess you'd have to say the big blue destroyed Ball State 34-26???
5)Better... probably. Most deserving... without a doubt... please wiki for 2004 unconquered Auburn shenanigans... obviously the VOTERS didn't want to #%!$ over the SEC again
6)Lastly, no hate, no hate... just some orange n' blue love for Michigan taking down the Trojans in the NIT Tournament errrrrr... i mean Tournament of Roses Bowl
A word on comments...they have to be approved -- a spam-blocking measure only. If your post doesnt appear right away, it will shortly. I'm keeping up today.
As an SEC fan, if the 2 best teams are from the same conference, I don't have a problem with them playing for the MNC. The BCS is supposed to put the 2 best teams there.
Whine all you want, Daniel Adams. Whine all the way to the Rose Bowl... because you are NOT getting a second chance at the Buckeyes. What's your complaint? You HAD your chance. Want to go to Glendale? November 18 would've been a GREAT time to punch your ticket. You didn't get it done, end of story. UF has one loss, you have one loss, and UF played a very respectable sked. Deal with it. 3 point game, or 1 point game -- it's all the same: the Buckeyes will be cheering for you in the Rose Bowl, friend, because we always want the Big 10 to do well out of conference. well, maybe... it's very hard to say "Go Weasels" -- I'll work on it. ;-)
Hands down my ass. Please. Both UM and FLA are one loss teams. Michigan's was to #1 ranked OSU @ OSU by 3, FLA. let's see, oh yeah, they lost to a #10 ranked Auburn, by 10 points. Why the hell is this hands down? By your logic, FLA would not even tie OSU if they beat them, they would walk away from a win in the BSC championship a solid #2, so why even play the game?
I understand that the southern establishment can't sand the fact that the best football teams are from way north of the Mason-Dixon line (another little altercation that we won) or from the west coast. They say FLA had a tough schedule, well how many South Carolina's did Michigan play?
Get real, deal, you guys will be demolished by the goddamned Buckeyes and I may, choking back vomit, have to root for those bastards thanks to all the crazy talk coming from folks like you. Regain your composure dude, and roar lions roar.
7 of those 10 points came as they were trying to come back and a defensive TD ended it...
Also there were blown calls in that game.
Michigan played no one and beat no one....
UF played one more game, beat LSU, beat Arky, beat UT, beat USC, beat FSU, and played one good defensive team after another.
FSU in 1996 was undefeated, had more talent than OSU, but Florida was mroe than their match...
ASU that year had an average defense and a good offense...the WAC-10 was down, UCLA, UW, WSU, USC all were bad....
Florida that year beat the crap out Bama's very good defense, beat the heck out of everybody, had fred Taylor and Jevon Kearse....there loss to FSU was at FSU and udner circumstances that weren't all that bad of a loss. OSU skirted by people most of the year. ASU did soem fo that too....the only close game that was really in doubt and that was lost was the UF-FSU game in Tallahasse...
UF came back and pummled them beyond recognition.
They deserved it.
Well it's 41 to 14 with less than 10 to go. Ohio State looks like a bunch of over rated chumps. Oh well just another down year for the SEC.
Post a comment
1) The voters in the polls are tasked with voting for the two best teams - not the most "deserving," not what is "fair," and certainly not based on what they want to see on their televisions Jan. 8.
2) There is no BCS requirement that the two best teams have won their conference.
3)It is possible to play a team in the postseason that you beat earlier in the year in almost every other professional and collegiate sport. Why is D1 NCAA football any different? Further, did Florida beating FSU in 1996 after losing to them earlier in the season "negate" their national title?
4) Schedule has nothing to do with it. Florida didn't jump Michigan after its conference schedule; it jumped Michigan after beating Arkansas by 10 points in what the CBS commentator described at the time as a "sloppy" game. And BTW: I watched Florida run through that schedule. I saw LSU hand them a win on a platter in the form of 6 turnovers. I saw South Carolina choke - not once, but twice - deep in Florida territory with a chance to win. I saw them eeek out a one-point win over Tennessee. I saw them struggle against Vandy - a team that, BTW, Michigan dominated. You think that's gonna roll into Glendale and hang with OSU? Might as well start engraving the hardware right now: Ohio State - 2006 National Champions.
5) But all of that aside, if the voters felt that Florida was the better team all along, then they had a responsibility to vote that way from the start.
Posted by: Daniel Adams at December 4, 2006 11:58 AM