Indeed, @Stax Classic: the Wildcats enacted fine and ferocious feline vengeance against Spurrier. :lol I didn't see any of the game as I ended up going to tonight's San Francisco GIANTS game but I am sure that @AryaDark was most pleased indeed. :dance :dance
Meanwhile, CAL BEARS! :mark:
Junior quarterback Jared Goff continues to make a bid for the Heisman Trophy imo as he demolished San Diego State's defense, completing 17-of-24 passes for 321 yards, three touchdowns and one interception. With today's game Goff moved into second place on the school's all-time career list for passing yardage! :mark: And he became only the second player in school history to catapult over 8,000 career passing yards! :mark: Goff now has 8,111 yards after 26 games in his career, and is only 15 shy of school record-holder Troy Taylor from 1986-'89. Meanwhile, Goff kept his school recorded going strong with his 14th 300-yard game! :mark:
Senior running back Daniel Lasco was also spectacular (Cal's offense ran the ball on its final 12 plays). Lasco concluded the day with 123 yards rushing with his 17th career touchdown on 19 carries! :mark: Trevor Davis led Cal's receiving unit with three catches for a career-high 138 yards including a fantastic 75-yard touchdown catch from Goff! :mark: Davis's yards per catch average of 46.0 established a single-game Cal record. :mj :side: Not bad for the Martinez, California native, not bad at all! :mark: :cheer
Wow, that last touchdown pass by Kelly from Ole Miss was just ridiculously lucky. Alabama is having the worst luck tonight and are really up against it right now. They can still win, of course, but the turnovers and that ungodly play are real killers.
An off game from GOFF. Five interceptions. Utah is tremendous, but this was an off game. The last INT was the worst, as Goff missed the wide open receiver in the flat on 4th down.
Meanwhile, I'm fairly certain that Jim Harbaugh is going to make a photocopy of his ass with the AP's newly released rankings of the Top 25 and fax it to Jed York's office first thing Monday morning. @SHIV
The ending of the Michigan game just doesn't happen and it just did.Amazing, completely unexpected ending. I'm not for either team, but that had to just eviscerate Michigan. Those fans looked more shocked than that guy at Wrestlemania when Undertaker lost.
I hated the BCS. I hate this awful playoff system. I don't want a college football destroying 8 team playoff either. I'm tired of arguments. I'm tired of undeserving teams getting in. I'be fucking had it with selection committee shows. I hate it all.
2 options:
1) Go back to the split/mythical national championships
2) Blow the entire system up and create a no doubt playoff system where you know exactly what needs to be done to get into a post season playoff. Conference alignments have to go. Bowl affiliations are done. Rivalries mean nothing. Traditions are destroyed. Nothing is sacred besides creating a fair playoff system.
One thing I know for sure is this subjective/ opinion based system is horrendous and I'm just fed up it. A playoff can't fairly exist with the way CFB currently exists. It's time to make a decision NOW!
hell even the division system in conferences is fucked up and I have no clue why it's still used. Look at the SEC for example *a terribly overrated league this year*. You had Florida win the East *:maisielol*. Why did they get to play in the SEC Championship game when there were like 4 teams in the West better than they were? Because they won one of the worst divisions in football? Come on. That is BROKEN. Anyone that watched Florida this year knew they were not a good team. Never a contender for anything and yet because they were an SEC team and in a terrible division they were ranked in the top 10. Look at that fucking team!
I swear I don't think people actually watch the teams they rank. Florida BARELY beat a terrible Kentucky team that if not for a dropped TD pass from Kentucky would have actually lost the game. Florida barely beat a bad Vanderbilt team. Florida almost lost to some directional state team. And yet because they actually WON the games it makes them good? Come on. Just watch the fucking games and you know which teams are good and which aren't.
Also on a totally different note. I'm a Kentucky fan and I'm in SEC country here and I'm sick and tired of people making excuses for SEC teams losing bowl games. The biggest excuse you hear is "oh they didn't really wanna be there. That bowl was not big enough for them" Well that's fucking bullshit. Your fucking team sucked and got their ass kicked. Fuck outta here with that shit.
In a more personal matter... what the fuck is up with "conference pride". Holy.Fucking.Shit. Get the fuck out of here. I'm a Kentucky fan so why in the FUCK should I root for the teams that we compete against to do well? Fuck that. I want them to look terrible so it's harder for them to recruit. I simply don't understand "conference pride". Worst.Shit.Ever
Heard that argument this year in the Big Ten. People were giving Iowa shit for winning what arguably was the weakest division in the Power 5. Yes, I understand people could make the argument that Michigan State, Ohio State, and possibly Michigan were better than the Hawkeyes. However, it should not take away from the fact that Iowa still took advantage and won the Big Ten West. Yes, the SEC East was down this year, but can't take away from the fact Florida won it. The system isn't broken, the division was down. It happens. The Big Ten West was down this year when normally Wisconsin and/or Nebraska are in the mix. Ebbs and flows.
Granted, down the road when the CFP expands (a matter of when, not if), it won't be that big of an issue when 8 and eventually 16 teams make it. For now, the emphasis needs to be on winning your conference.
I completely agree with your "conference pride" portion of the rant. The 11th Commandment of being a sports fan is, "Thou shalt never cheereth or supporteth your rival." If Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska, or Wisconsin is playing a band of space aliens with the survival of the human race at stake, I'm cheering for extinction. I'm not rooting for my rivals to succeed.
I think I would like the college football system more if it was a round robin conference schedule and then you picked the teams that finished 1st and 2nd in the conference to play for the conference championship. Not some stupid Ease/West North/South type of system.
Of course with college football you can't really do that as you only get what 8 games in conference? So the round robin thing can't be done but doing away with the East/West North/South stuff can be done.
Also every conference should have a championship game. Why is there a rule that states you have to have a certain number of teams in your conference to have a conference championship game? Why? That makes no goddamn sense at all to me. If you don't have a championship game then fuck off you're not qualified for the tourny.
Tbh, I've been wanting Notre Dame to join a conference for awhile now. This year kinda showed why joining a conference is more important than ever. Because if Notre Dame had beaten Stanford, all the teams ahead of them won their conference championship games, and I doubt the playoff committee would've picked Notre Dame over any of them. That's basically what the conference championship games are now, an extra chance for teams to prove themselves, and right now Notre Dame doesn't have that luxury.
No one cares about glorified exhibition games anymore. No one has cared for years. The bowls are beyond pointless. They are meaningless games.
The only way people will watch these games is if they matter. That's why the college hoops tournament is such a massive success. You have 60+ games in a short window and every one of them matters.
MRMR summed up what I was trying to say. After the playoff games, nobody gives a shit. Nobody will remember those games two months from now. Nobody really cares about who's in the Alamo or Gator or Citrus Bowl. It's just extra football to watch when we're bored. If it's a blowout, ok, whatever.
Been this way since the formation of the BCS, and will continue as the playoff inevitably expands. Won't do so right away, but eventually we will see 8, 16, maybe 24 teams down the road competing for the national championship on the field. The bowl games will then become irrelevant and die off.
The only reasons to care about these games anymore really is if your team is playing (other than the Rose Bowl because my team was playing, I haven't watched any of the other bowl games this season or if money is riding on it. Plus, the bowl games really don't want the best teams, they want the ones who will bring in the most fans. The BS about Nebraska's academic standing as the reason a team with a losing record makes a bowl game? The truth is Nebraska fans travel, will support their team, will spend money. Bowls are more of an arm of a community's Chamber of Commerce.
WazzU lost to 31 pt underdog Portland State at home :jose It was nice knowing you Mike Leach, but you've finished digging your own grave, this season is just filling it in over you.
UCLA impressed me, especially their rookie qb. USC looked great, but the opponent was Arkansas State. These games where the small schools get a payday, while the larger one gets a walkover prove nothing. I did laugh at how poorly Oregon played. Sure they won 61-42 or something like that, but did their defense completely abandon them? Felt horrible for Mike Riley to lose that way, but that really was an amazing ending. Alabama manhandled Wisconsin, which I thought would be a harder task to do, but they really outclassed them last night. Great to be able to watch College Football all day and night again. I am pulling for Beamer to pull the upset, but I won't be holding my breath waiting for it to happen.
What an ending. Losing your two best offensive players in two weeks is never going to do you any favors, so I'll take this 2-0 start however it came. It's next man up. Next week is going to show just what they can do against arguably the toughest test on their schedule in Georgia Tech.
Also, this is just too good. :banderas
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