That's OK. I understand. The first loss is the hardest, especially when it happens in your own back yard. 
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I am pulling for my conference.
Go B1G!
Go B1G!
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It gets a little weird around here. My wife's from Michigan and I'm kinda' from Ohio.
GO BLUE!!!
And you wonder why we despise Alabama fans.
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Careful, the next game may feature a team that can actually score points
Both Alabama and Michigan totally controlled their championship games. Played smart and did not give up much, the plan to get ahead and stay there worked for both teams. It will be a great game. Now if I could just remember the other two teams in the top four?????
Washington and Texas. FSU is out and crying already. But they do have a legitimate gripe.
FSU got hosed. An unbeaten power 5 team sits while 2 one loss teams get in.
I would like to see an 8 team playoff.
I would like to see an 8 team playoff.
From David Hale senior staff writer for ESPN:
"In the olden days, we had a beauty contest. The top team in the nation was decided entirely by the voters.
Then we moved to a better system, one determined in part by computers that at least added some math to the abstract rationalizing while also allowing two teams to decide it on the field.
Then we moved to a four-team playoff, and the whole point was to eliminate the hypotheticals and let a champion be crowned by the actual results on the field. If you won your games, you had a chance to win a national title.
Turns out, all of that was a charade. None of it mattered. The games are pointless. What happens on the field is less important than what a committee thinks might happen in a future matchup.
It is an absolute slap in the face to every player who has ever put on a helmet, laced up cleats and marched onto the field to battle for a victory, because a bunch of folks in a conference room in Texas decided their sacrifice was not as important as the Las Vegas line on a potential playoff matchup.
It's a joke."
"In the olden days, we had a beauty contest. The top team in the nation was decided entirely by the voters.
Then we moved to a better system, one determined in part by computers that at least added some math to the abstract rationalizing while also allowing two teams to decide it on the field.
Then we moved to a four-team playoff, and the whole point was to eliminate the hypotheticals and let a champion be crowned by the actual results on the field. If you won your games, you had a chance to win a national title.
Turns out, all of that was a charade. None of it mattered. The games are pointless. What happens on the field is less important than what a committee thinks might happen in a future matchup.
It is an absolute slap in the face to every player who has ever put on a helmet, laced up cleats and marched onto the field to battle for a victory, because a bunch of folks in a conference room in Texas decided their sacrifice was not as important as the Las Vegas line on a potential playoff matchup.
It's a joke."
Agree, especially about Alabama. I didn't think the game was as close as the score indicated. Alabama out-executed Georgia and looked faster, too. Still, Georgia might have forced overtime had they not had an illegal motion penalty on a field goal attempt. Who does that? Alabama deserved the win.
As to Michigan-Iowa, I've heard that Iowa will now be known as "Iwa". Why? Because there's no "O" in "Iwa".
(Weak Ba-Dum-Tish)
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An unbeaten Power 5 Conference Champion left out of the playoffs. Never happened before. FSU has a right to be pissed. Can you imagine if the committee had left out Washington in favor of Georgia? You're basically telling these young men that all the hard work and discipline, things desperately needed in this world, don't mean a thing if a group of men decide that there's a better game to be had. And we wonder why so many young people seem to give up on the world.
If Florida State wins their bowl game, they should make players' rings, and maybe a trophy too, proclaiming themselves as National Champions. The NCAA would fuss, of course, but FSU should tell them to stuff it.
Right or wrong I figured it would go this way because of what the talking heads were saying.
I expect a great Orange Bowl next month with FSU vs. GA.
I expect a great Orange Bowl next month with FSU vs. GA.
I understand all the gnashing of teeth and beating of breasts but there was going to be a lot of that no matter who got picked. There will be a 12 team playoff next year and there will still be gnashing and beating.
Love the college playoff, wish we actually had one instead of teams chosen by committee. All they have done is go from a committee choosing 2 teams to a committee choosing 4.
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Alabama had their referees help to beat UGA. I kid you not, that miracle "catch" was being discussed on practically every other game broadcast after the SEC Championship game.
Now FSU knows how Auburn felt in 2004, when at the end of the season there were 3 undefeated teams: AU, USC, and Oklahoma. AU got left in the cold, while USC destroyed OU in the National Championship. However, years later, USC got stripped of the NC because of an ineligible player Reggie Bush, who also had to give up his Heisman Trophy.
Now FSU knows how Auburn felt in 2004, when at the end of the season there were 3 undefeated teams: AU, USC, and Oklahoma. AU got left in the cold, while USC destroyed OU in the National Championship. However, years later, USC got stripped of the NC because of an ineligible player Reggie Bush, who also had to give up his Heisman Trophy.
