A quick question about tonights BCS Championship

[Ohio Cards Fan]

Am I the only one who would have abandoned the freakin' zone D by now. Are football minds this stupid or am I in the twilight zone? I feel like I'm watching a Cardinals game fully loaded with a Denny Green staff!

 

[SoCal Cardfan]

So.... not being a big college fan..

This guy really won the heisman?

 

[D-Dogg]

So.... not being a big college fan..

This guy really won the heisman?

Seriously....


Paging Skkorp...please come explain why you love him so much...

 

[Ryanwb]

I can see the introductions now: "Troy Smith, please meet Andre Ware, Danny Wuerffel, Jason White on your left that is Gino Torretta and next to him is Eric Crouch.... welcome to the club!!!!"

 

[Gambit]

This game was one of the worst I have seen. Troy Smith really is better than that. Or maybe it was all Ginn. Anyway, what can one say but, Congrats to the Gators on spanking the Poisonous Nuts.

 

[vinnymac]

the sec is toughest conference in college football. it doesn't surprise me that flordia spanked ohio.

 

[Scott MS]

Wow, that was . . . boring. At least I was left thinking I'd like to see USC play Florida.

 

[Ohio Cards Fan]

I am an avid Buckeye fan. I've watched every game this season. This was not the same team I watched all season. It seems the Gators spent their 30 days preparing while the Buckeyes (players, coaches, everyone) spent their 50 off days preparing their victory speeches. That was one of the worst prepared teams I've EVER seen...and I've watched a lot of Cardinal football!

BTW, if you watched Troy Smith all season...without a doubt the undisputed Heisman winner. And for those who question his translatability into the NFL and his deserving of the Heisman trophy, I will remind you that it is for the most valuable and outstanding COLLEGE player. Troy Smith was that this year. For those that ever expected him to be an impact NFL QB at 5'10'' 3/4, then you are just foolish. If he pans out, then its a wonderful surprise.

 

[joeshmo]

All I got to say about this game -

I stopped watching at half time.

 

[azsouthendzone]

Troy Smith will be a 1st round pick.........

of the Calgary Stampeders

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Makes you wonder how Boise St. vs. Ohio St. might have gone.

The two undefeated teams should have been allowed to play it out.

Glad Florida whipped up on the Buckeyes!!

 

[Scott MS]

Makes you wonder how Boise St. vs. Ohio St. might have gone.

Boise St. would be National Champions.

 

[Stout]

And the only undefeated team, after walking in and winning their BCS game, is Boise State. Damn, is college football messed up. I mean, completely ********, when it comes down to it.

 

[Southpaw]

I am an avid Buckeye fan. I've watched every game this season. This was not the same team I watched all season. It seems the Gators spent their 30 days preparing while the Buckeyes (players, coaches, everyone) spent their 50 off days preparing their victory speeches. That was one of the worst prepared teams I've EVER seen...and I've watched a lot of Cardinal football!

BTW, if you watched Troy Smith all season...without a doubt the undisputed Heisman winner. And for those who question his translatability into the NFL and his deserving of the Heisman trophy, I will remind you that it is for the most valuable and outstanding COLLEGE player. Troy Smith was that this year. For those that ever expected him to be an impact NFL QB at 5'10'' 3/4, then you are just foolish. If he pans out, then its a wonderful surprise.

...ummmmm......... Big 10 fans seem to have an inflated view of their teams and individual players. Big 10 plays no one outside their conference and it shows year after year in the bowl matchups. The 2 best teams , Ohio State and Michigan, got totally pummeled in their BCS games. Wisconsin was the only saving game for their pride. It is what it is. The media and fans love those Big ten teams all year and when all is said and done won't admit the overhype.

In hindsight, if the pre BCS hype had been swallowed, Ohio State and MIchigan would have been the BCS Championship match up. That would have been totaly fraudulent, given the outcomes, and add further evidence that a playoff system is blatantly necessary.

Florida, USC and LSU all showed they deserved to be there. The Big Ten did not.

Hopefully Card fans will use these games as a guage for the upcoming draft and not buy into the Big 10 overhype and premature evaluation. Maybe, just maybe, Joe Thomas is one of those big puffy fat Big 10 O linemen, who look invincible playing against big fat puffy Big 10 D lineman. Just like the ones sucking for air in the 1st quarter last night.

Speed kills.

BTW, Troy Smith did a perfect imitation of a bowling ball last night. That dude can't be 5' 9". How much you wanna bet he doesn't show up for the combine drills? He is a RB

 

[EndZone]

...ummmmm......... Big 10 fans seem to have an inflated view of their teams and individual players. Big 10 plays no one outside their conference and it shows year after year in the bowl matchups. The 2 best teams , Ohio State and Michigan, got totally pummeled in their BCS games. Wisconsin was the only saving game for their pride. It is what it is. The media and fans love those Big ten teams all year and when all is said and done won't admit the overhype.

In hindsight, if the pre BCS hype had been swallowed, Ohio State and MIchigan would have been the BCS Championship match up. That would have been totaly fraudulent, given the outcomes, and add further evidence that a playoff system is blatantly necessary.

Florida, USC and LSU all showed they deserved to be there. The Big Ten did not.

Hopefully Card fans will use these games as a guage for the upcoming draft and not buy into the Big 10 overhype and premature evaluation. Maybe, just maybe, Joe Thomas is one of those big puffy fat Big 10 O linemen, who look invincible playing against big fat puffy Big 10 D lineman. Just like the ones sucking for air in the 1st quarter last night.

Speed kills.

BTW, Troy Smith did a perfect imitation of a bowling ball last night. That dude can't be 5' 9". Hom much you wanna bet he doesn't show up for the combine drills? He is a RB

Speak it brother!

 

[Scott MS]

...ummmmm......... Big 10 fans seem to have an inflated view of their teams and individual players. Big 10 plays no one outside their conference and it shows year after year in the bowl matchups. The 2 best teams , Ohio State and Michigan, got totally pummeled in their BCS games. Wisconsin was the only saving game for their pride. It is what it is. The media and fans love those Big ten teams all year and when all is said and done won't admit the overhype.

In hindsight, if the pre BCS hype had been swallowed, Ohio State and MIchigan would have been the BCS Championship match up. That would have been totaly fraudulent, given the outcomes, and add further evidence that a playoff system is blatantly necessary.

Florida, USC and LSU all showed they deserved to be there. The Big Ten did not.

Hopefully Card fans will use these games as a guage for the upcoming draft and not buy into the Big 10 overhype and premature evaluation. Maybe, just maybe, Joe Thomas is one of those big puffy fat Big 10 O linemen, who look invincible playing against big fat puffy Big 10 D lineman. Just like the ones sucking for air in the 1st quarter last night.

Speed kills.

BTW, Troy Smith did a perfect imitation of a bowling ball last night. That dude can't be 5' 9". How much you wanna bet he doesn't show up for the combine drills? He is a RB

Good post, Wally, and you're right. Big 10 needs to adjust their schedule. They have a lot of games against Notre Dame, but as after you saw what both USC and LSU did to Notre Dame, Notre Dame isn't that good.

 

[john h]

Troy Smith will be a 1st round pick.........

of the Calgary Stampeders

From what I saw I do not think Troy Smith will be a first round pick.

 

[john h]

...ummmmm......... Big 10 fans seem to have an inflated view of their teams and individual players. Big 10 plays no one outside their conference and it shows year after year in the bowl matchups. The 2 best teams , Ohio State and Michigan, got totally pummeled in their BCS games. Wisconsin was the only saving game for their pride. It is what it is. The media and fans love those Big ten teams all year and when all is said and done won't admit the overhype.

In hindsight, if the pre BCS hype had been swallowed, Ohio State and MIchigan would have been the BCS Championship match up. That would have been totaly fraudulent, given the outcomes, and add further evidence that a playoff system is blatantly necessary.

Florida, USC and LSU all showed they deserved to be there. The Big Ten did not.

Hopefully Card fans will use these games as a guage for the upcoming draft and not buy into the Big 10 overhype and premature evaluation. Maybe, just maybe, Joe Thomas is one of those big puffy fat Big 10 O linemen, who look invincible playing against big fat puffy Big 10 D lineman. Just like the ones sucking for air in the 1st quarter last night.

Speed kills.

BTW, Troy Smith did a perfect imitation of a bowling ball last night. That dude can't be 5' 9". How much you wanna bet he doesn't show up for the combine drills? He is a RB

You can be sure it will effect where Joe Thomas is drafted. We at Arkansas had a good OLineman a few years ago on a bad team in Shawn Andrews. Did not get a lot of hype but was all SEC. This year he is All Pro for the Eagles. The pros can often see through a lot of hype as they study all the films over and over for those early choices if not all the choices. We have another defensive lineman declare for the draft (junior) in Jamal Anderson. He led the SEC in sacks and was all SEC. Look for this guy to go in the top 10. I think Kyper had him going at #5 but few people have heard of him. We also have a mean a-- DB declare for the draft. He presses 450 lbs and it is really tough to get off the line on him. Excellent 1 on 1 cover guy.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

...ummmmm......... Big 10 fans seem to have an inflated view of their teams and individual players. Big 10 plays no one outside their conference and it shows year after year in the bowl matchups. The 2 best teams , Ohio State and Michigan, got totally pummeled in their BCS games. Wisconsin was the only saving game for their pride. It is what it is. The media and fans love those Big ten teams all year and when all is said and done won't admit the overhype.

In hindsight, if the pre BCS hype had been swallowed, Ohio State and MIchigan would have been the BCS Championship match up. That would have been totaly fraudulent, given the outcomes, and add further evidence that a playoff system is blatantly necessary.

Florida, USC and LSU all showed they deserved to be there. The Big Ten did not.

Hopefully Card fans will use these games as a guage for the upcoming draft and not buy into the Big 10 overhype and premature evaluation. Maybe, just maybe, Joe Thomas is one of those big puffy fat Big 10 O linemen, who look invincible playing against big fat puffy Big 10 D lineman. Just like the ones sucking for air in the 1st quarter last night.

Speed kills.

BTW, Troy Smith did a perfect imitation of a bowling ball last night. That dude can't be 5' 9". How much you wanna bet he doesn't show up for the combine drills? He is a RB

OSU went to Texas this year.They play USC in 2008/2009. When is the last time Florida has played a road game against a quality opponent outside the state of Florida? They beat the crap out of OSU and deserve the credit but your reasoning is way off base.

 

[Scott MS]

In hindsight, Ohio State was somewhat legitimized when they beat Texas in Austin, their second game of the season. Texas was unjustly ranked #2 then so Ohio State looked like the team to beat.

Clearly we need a playoff, but will 4 teams be enough? If it was 4, they would have included Ohio State, Florida, Michigan, and LSU as 1-4. I wouldn't have been as happy with that because they would have left out USC and Boise St.

Conferences determine Champions. Florida won the SEC, USC won the Pac-10, Ohio State won the Big 10. They need to come up with a system where they take the Champions of each conferences (SEC, Pac-10, Big 10, Big 12, WAC, etc.) and give them a playoff. No sense is bringing in a team like Michigan when they just lost to Ohio State.

Put the responsibility on the Conferences to pick a Champion, and then expand to BCS to include the Holiday Bowl, Gator Bowl, etc. and get enough bowls to include a playoff system with 3 rounds and 8 teams from 8 conference, or maybe 7 conferences and one "at large" selection.


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[Southpaw]

OSU went to Texas this year.They play USC in 2008/2009. When is the last time Florida has played a road game against a quality opponent outside the state of Florida? They beat the crap out of OSU and deserve the credit but your reasoning is way off base.

Okay. I just think top to bottom , the SEC is tough. I don't think the Big 10 is.

Florida does play FSU out of conference every year.

I am not as Gator fan, just an entertained viewer of College football.

 

[Southpaw]

In hindsight, Ohio State was somewhat legitimized when they beat Texas in Austin, their second game of the season. Texas was unjustly ranked #2 then so Ohio State looked like the team to beat.

Clearly we need a playoff, but will 4 teams be enough? If it was 4, they would have included Ohio State, Florida, Michigan, and LSU as 1-4. I wouldn't have been as happy with that because they would have left out USC and Boise St.

Conferences determine Champions. Florida won the SEC, USC won the Pac-10, Ohio State won the Big 10. They need to come up with a system where they take the Champions of each conferences (SEC, Pac-10, Big 10, Big 12, WAC, etc.) and give them a playoff. No sense is bringing in a team like Michigan when they just lost to Ohio State.

Put the responsibility on the Conferences to pick a Champion, and then expand to BCS to include the Holiday Bowl, Gator Bowl, etc. and get enough bowls to include a playoff system with 3 rounds and 8 teams.


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Big 10 and Pac 10 are the last holdouts for an in Conference Championship game. If all the conference winners, like NCAA BB tournament, qualified , then the playoff would be legit. That is probably why the big $$$$ conferences don't want it.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

There's no doubt the SEC is better overall. But OSU/Mich can play with anybody. This is first time Tressell has lost a BCS bowl game. BTW, they what may be the worst game plan i have seen by any team.It was ridiculous. They didn't play that 3 man,drop your LB's 15 yards deep scheme all year. They played/coached like the were afraid of Florida.

 

[Scott MS]

Big 10 and Pac 10 are the last holdouts for an in Conference Championship game. If all the conference winners, like NCAA BB tournament, qualified , then the playoff would be legit. That is probably why the big $$$$ conferences don't want it.

Even if they didn't have a Conference Playoff game, but rather took the conference winner based on final record (like in the old Rose Bowl days when the best record from the Pac-10 and and Big 10 played), that would be fine with me. If we used that logic this year, USC and Ohio State would go.

 

[Scott MS]

There's no doubt the SEC is better overall. But OSU/Mich can play with anybody. This is first time Tressell has lost a BCS bowl game. BTW, they what may be the worst game plan i have seen by any team.It was ridiculous. They didn't play that 3 man,drop your LB's 15 yards deep scheme all year. They played/coached like the were afraid of Florida.

Might have spent too much time at the pep rally at Chase Field. Did anybody see that? I mean it's great to have pep rallys and all to cater to your fans, but stop the self-serving congratulatory celebrations and focus on the game. That's pretty much why you don't see that stuff with the pros. It's easy to criticize after the fact.