Why is USC doing all this bs with their uniforms?

And why in god's name does the NCAA regulate what color the home team has to wear?

Because they can't seem to regulate anything else.

Incandenza wrote:

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USC fans love to complain about former Sports editor, and current columnist Bill Dwyer being biased to Notre Dame (he is a Notre Dame graduate)--they call him "Domer Dwyer."

They should leave off on that. It is about the only thing going ND's way at the moment.

The LA Times' Chris Dufresne makes the case for Utah:

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Utah went 12-0 and won the Mountain West Conference.

Most years, the champion of that league would not warrant title-game consideration, but this is 2008.

If Utah can be ranked in the BCS ahead of Penn State, the Big Ten champion, and Texas Tech, the Big 12 South tri-champion, why can't it be considered for the national title?

If you just looked at the facts without knowing the teams, would you vote USC ahead of Utah?

The Mountain West is 6-1 against the Pacific 10 Conference this year.

Utah defeated Oregon State; USC did not.

Anderson & Hester, one of the six computers used in the BCS standings formula, has Utah ranked No. 2 this week behind Alabama.

Wes Colley, another BCS computer man, has the Mountain West ranked No. 6 and the Pac-10 at No. 7.

Kenneth Massey, another BCS operator, has the Mountain West ranked ahead of the Big Ten and the Pac-10.

The BCS was set up for the national champion to emerge from one of the top six conferences.

What if the Mountain West is one of six?

Utah has defeated three teams in this week's Associated Press top 25: Texas Christian, Brigham Young and Oregon State.

Top-ranked Alabama has defeated two top-25 teams: Georgia and Mississippi.

USC has defeated two: Ohio State and Oregon.

Utah's overall computer rating is No. 5 compared to USC's No. 8.

What about undefeated Ball State and Boise State?

Sorry, Ball State's weaker schedule takes it out of the equation because the Cardinals are a member of the MAC (Middling America Conference).

Boise State has a more compelling case. The Broncos defeated Oregon in Eugene, but the Western Athletic Conference doesn't quite stack up this year with the Mountain West.

It wouldn't be a crime, actually, if the Fiesta Bowl took at-large Boise State instead of at-large Ohio State.

But that would mean a nation deprived of seeing the Buckeyes in a major bowl again.

And it would require the BCS taking two non-BCS schools when only a few years ago it didn't take any -- ask Tulane or Marshall.

Back to reality -- none of this is going to happen.

If Florida and Oklahoma lose this weekend, Texas is going to play Alabama for the national title.

What a shame that would be . . . for Utah.

Soccer Scrimmage wrote:

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And why in god's name does the NCAA regulate what color the home team has to wear?

Not sure if there is regulation in Baton Rouge...

Are LSU the only school to wear white as their home jerseys?

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You are Maryland.

You are at home for the final home game this season. It is Senior night. You are undefeated at home this season. You are playing on national television, knowing that if you beat your opponent you will remain nationally ranked and most likely get to play in the ACC Championship game for an Orange Bowl trip. Your fate is completely in your hands.

You don't bother to show up #1-99 and lose 37-3 to Florida State. Enjoy your crappy bowl trip. To Boise. And play on the smurf turf against the home team in ridiculous cold.

December 30, Humanitarian Bowl, Boise ID
Maryland vs. Nevada

let the record reflect I called most of it.

Not sure what Nevada's traveling support will be like. When UCLA played Wyoming in the Las Vegas Bowl in 2004, Wyoming had an ungodly number of people there for the game, and UCLA fans just didn't care and very few went.

Rules I would pass if I was in charge of college football--no bowl games held after Jan. 1 except for the national championship game. The Cotton and Liberty Bowls on Jan. 2? The International Bowl on Jan. 3? THE GMAC BOWL ON JAN. 6? WHO GIVES A FUCK?

Here's how the coaches voted in their final ballots.

Check out Mike Leach putting his own team at #2--ahead of Oklahoma! Neuheisel had Texas #1, Florida #2, USC #3, and Oklahoma #4.

The tastiest bowl to me is the Poinsettia Bowl--Boise State v. TCU.

I hear you Inca. I looked at the bowl schedule and there are three games on Jan 1. This has enraged me for some reason.

I wish the NCAA would just make a fucking choice already. Either stay with tradition (i.e., bowls) in which case put them back on their traditional goddamn day, or get a fucking playoff.

I vote for the former. It was the best when you could wake up and watch non-stop bowl games from 11am to 11pm. Almost like the first two days of the basketball tourney.

You could probably still do that, except now you can't zap between three channels to follow concurrent games. No harm in stretching the bowl season AFAIAC.

Will the Golden Bears be taking BART to their bowl game?

Cocksucking motherfucker. I just spend 15 minutes writing a rant and I got logged out, and now it's gone.

Inca - Mike Leach put the Okies at #1. He put TT at #2, ahead of Florida. That's not so nutty.

Okay, I messed up. Still, #2 though?

Eh, you can understand his reasoning. He's saying that he beat Texas, he only lost to the #1, and he's better than every other team out there, and the Big 12 is better than the SEC. He may even be right. I mean it's not as if he lost more games than 80% of the top 10.

I would've loved to have seen Boise State v Texas Tech in the Cotton. TT v Ole Miss is still okay, however.

Agree with your New Years Day rant (if that's what the mystery rant was about. It's funny, I don't need to read it to still catch it's impact.)

I could deal with the National Title game being played the day after New Year's, but this is too much. To have the Fiesta or Sugar being played after New Years is ridiculous. I mean there's only 5 (FIVE - CINCO - CINQ) bowls out of 34 (THIRTY-F'N-FOUR) played on New Years. That's a little over 14%.

14%.

There are 7 after New Years.

That's 20 %.

20 %.

That said, the 2nd is a Friday this year, so no one will complain about an extended weekend of football.

It's all a pile of crap. There must be a playoff. Given the current system, it's sensible to consider strength of schedule, but overall, that's not fair. It's not Penn State's fault that the Big Ten was down this year. It's not USC's fault that the Pac10 is dreadful. Same with Utah and Boise State. Not everyone can play in the SEC. A lot of the strength of schedule computations are suspect anyway.

With a proper playoff of 8 or better yet, 16 teams, a good team that hasn't had a chance to prove itself yet would get a chance. That's how it is in every other NCAA sport as well as the other three divisions of football and it works well.

It's also bogus that certain conferences automatically get an BCS bid. This year's Orange Bowl is suspect.

I'm tired of hearing about the glorious tradition of the bowls. There's nothing glorious about it. It's just a big sop to the tourism industries in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Louisiana and California. Most of the "classic old bowl stadiums" are obsolete dumps. The sort of people that can afford to go to the bowls are the old fat cat alums. They pay the bills but they don't make a good game day atmosphere. Most students can't afford to go to a bowl. The students are the key to a loud stadium atmosphere.

Have a playoff with seeds so that the better teams get a home game in at least the first round. The atmosphere at the campus stadiums for those games will be off the charts.

I'll try to reconstruct my rant tomorrow at work. But the gist of it is that the bowl season is too spread out, New Year's used to be great, because like SS said, it was like the first days of the NCAA basketball tournament--out west here, you'd wake up and the Peach Bowl would be on, and you'd watch football over breakfast. How great is that? You knew the schedule, and it was comforting.

But now the sponsors and ESPN--and ESPN is a big part of what's wrong--want it spread out. Just wait--in five years or so, we'll have a bowl game in the middle of December.

We already do. I think the first one is Dec. 20 or thereabouts. That's roughly "mid-December."

UA, the Golden Bears won't BART over to Pac Bell, they'll probably charter a bus to cross the Bay Bridge for a good shot at "The U".

Saturday's game was pretty exciting, Soph RB Jahvid Best put up a phenomenal performance, 311 yards on 11 carries in 2 1/2 quarters of play. He probably would have broken the NCAA single game rushing record had he played the whole game.

Best finished the regular season with an 8.0 yard per carry figure, which leads the NCAA, by a wide margin.


Highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOBh_WYZ9tc