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#1 DrKoz23

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 09:54 PM

The topic title and description says it all.

The Big Ten is by far the best conference in football this year. The number 1 and 2 slot belong to two undefeated (11-0) Big Ten teams (Ohio State and Michigan).

Also... Wisconsin is now number 9 in the BCS.

Yep... that puts 3 of the top 9 teams in the BCS from the Big Ten. Heck... if the BIG GAME this weekend ends up close... OSU and Michigan deserve to play again in the title game!

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 10:21 PM

Yes, but the system of ranking college football teams is definately flawed. It isn't if you lose.....it is when you lose that matters the most. Teams that get their one loss out of the way early in the season are in a much better position for a bowl game at the end of the year than say OSU or MI that plays on the last weekend of the season. If this game had been played earlier in the year, the loser would have had the same chances that UT had to climb back up the polls. Instead, the winner will advance, and the loser will play in a BCS game, but not the championship.

Oh yeah, the Big Red shall rise again........go NU!!!!

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Posted 12 November 2006 - 11:38 PM

QUOTE(DrKoz23 @ Nov 12 2006, 09:54 PM) View Post

The topic title and description says it all.

The Big Ten is by far the best conference in football this year. The number 1 and 2 slot belong to two undefeated (11-0) Big Ten teams (Ohio State and Michigan).

Also... Wisconsin is now number 9 in the BCS.

Yep... that puts 3 of the top 9 teams in the BCS from the Big Ten. Heck... if the BIG GAME this weekend ends up close... OSU and Michigan deserve to play again in the title game!

Yep, we're ranked 9th -- but can't go to a BCS bowl. Michigan and OSU are too far ahead in the rankings for either one to drop below the Badgers and only two teams from any given conference gain entry to a BCS bowl. So, showing yet another flaw of the BCS system (I hope that someday it's all figured out, somehow), depending on how the end of the season plays out, Wisconsin could be ranked even higher than ninth in the nation and will still end up at the Capitol One bowl like last year. I'm really happy and proud of the team and the rookie coach, but what an anti-climatic end to the season.

And, believe it or not, I'll be strongly rooting for the Wolverines come this Saturday. Esp. now that West Virginia's down from the top 5.

That said, if Michigan and OSU end up #1 & #2, I don't want to see them play each other! We will already know who is the winner of that matchup. Just seems redundant, IMHO.


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Posted 13 November 2006 - 12:01 AM

I don't know, the SEC has some pretty good teams.

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 12:04 AM

QUOTE(stevethedad @ Nov 13 2006, 12:01 AM) View Post

I don't know, the SEC has some pretty good teams.

And they, too, will be stimyed by the 2 teams per conference thang.

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 10:43 AM

Go BIG BLUE .....
A VETERAN Whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount "up to and including their life". That is HONOR, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. -Author unknown-

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 12:11 PM

you all forgot about Mighty Rutgers. They're undefeated so they should get the championship game bid right?

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 12:32 PM

Who did they play?
A VETERAN Whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount "up to and including their life". That is HONOR, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. -Author unknown-

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 12:44 PM

QUOTE(Al Waysrite @ Nov 13 2006, 12:11 PM) View Post

you all forgot about Mighty Rutgers. They're undefeated so they should get the championship game bid right?


I'm thinking it'll be tough for the Scarlet Knights to get past the teams ahead of them. USC and Notre Dame play each other. So essentially, we have a psuedo playoff system - #1 plays #2 and #3 plays #5. The winners of these two games will probably wind up #1 and #2 in the BCS. I doubt Florida and Rutgers can sneak past.

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 02:42 PM

QUOTE(cw68 @ Nov 12 2006, 11:38 PM) View Post

Yep, we're ranked 9th -- but can't go to a BCS bowl. Michigan and OSU are too far ahead in the rankings for either one to drop below the Badgers and only two teams from any given conference gain entry to a BCS bowl.


You just ruined my day. I had forgotten about that rule!

The BCS sucks... period. The Badgers may end up number 6 in the BCS... but can do nothing about it. What a broken system!

Yuck... Michigan... gotta pull for OSU.

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 03:41 PM

QUOTE(DrKoz23 @ Nov 13 2006, 02:42 PM) View Post

You just ruined my day. I had forgotten about that rule!

The BCS sucks... period. The Badgers may end up number 6 in the BCS... but can do nothing about it. What a broken system!

Yuck... Michigan... gotta pull for OSU.

I know, I'm taking one for the team in the name of family harmony. Never thought I'd see the day! I'll root for Michigan when they are playing non-conference teams because I always want to see the Big 10 win, but this is a new one for me.

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 03:48 PM

Needs to be a playoff system where the top 10 teams play a bracket tourney at the end of the season. Would get rid of the lull in December while we wait for bowl games to start. Bowl games would be then assigned 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 etc.

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 03:51 PM

QUOTE(MikeinFolsom @ Nov 13 2006, 03:48 PM) View Post

Needs to be a playoff system where the top 10 teams play a bracket tourney at the end of the season. Would get rid of the lull in December while we wait for bowl games to start. Bowl games would be then assigned 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 etc.

Interesting in theory, but then these college students would have games during finals.

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 06:31 PM

QUOTE(stevethedad @ Nov 13 2006, 12:01 AM) View Post

I don't know, the SEC has some pretty good teams.


I would definitely put them second. Florida... Arkansas... and LSU are tough! I am wondering if Arkansas' loss to USC at the beginning of the year was a fluke. They got a beat down... 50-7... at home... if I remember correctly.


QUOTE(camay2327 @ Nov 13 2006, 10:43 AM) View Post

Go BIG BLUE .....


I would post my rendition of the Michigan fight song... but I think its a little too vulgar for this board.

What's the best thing to come out of Michigan? I-75 to the south.
(It definitely isn't a car biggrin.gif )

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Posted 13 November 2006 - 06:36 PM

QUOTE(DrKoz23 @ Nov 13 2006, 06:31 PM) View Post

I would post my rendition of the Michigan fight song... but I think its a little too vulgar for this board.

What's the best thing to come out of Michigan? I-75 to the south.
(It definitely isn't a car biggrin.gif )

I know that song, Hail to those big....

So hard not to sing those words around the kids when my husband's singing the proper Victors song. Luckily, my kids know the words to "If you want to be a Badger."




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