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NCAA Football 2022

#221
MJ5150 said:
I don't like college football playoffs one bit. Not one.
I miss the New Years day bowl-a-thons, then the debate after all the games finished about who woulda, coulda, shoulda been national champion. That was actually kind of fun debating what would have happened if Oregon really did get a chance to play Alabama or Ohio State had to face off against LSU. Proponents for the playoffs said it would put to rest who was the national champion by having it decided on the field, but here we are several years into it and now we're debating why there aren't more teams in the playoffs, should we add more teams to the playoffs, why this team got in and that team didn't.
Nothing really changed except the sponsors, sports books, and TV deals found more ways to squeeze more money from NCAA football. Which, I believe, was their goal the whole time. Not to decide anything on the field, but to get more money.
I still remember back in the 90's taking a few TV's to one buddies house, grabbing some coax splitters from Radio Shack, and setting them all up so we could watch all of the games at once while having some great food and drink. It was what we called a tradition. That tradition was always capped off with the granddaddy of them all, The Rose Bow in Pasadena. Aww man, those were the days. Now this is better? A game here, a game there, a week or two between games, then another game on a weeknight? Hogwash, it's all hogwash. The NCAA ruined college football for me.

-Mike
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I fondly remember those days, too.

In the '70s, the only bowl games played after New Year's Day were all-star games (Hula Bowl, Senior Bowl, East-West Shrine Bowl, Blue-Gray Bowl). New Year's Day was Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Rose Bowl. Before that was the Gator Bowl, Peach Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and a few others.

In 2019, there were 39 bowl games, not including all-star games or the National Championship Game. Rinky-dink bowl games like the Birmingham Bowl, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Armed Forces Bowl and Lending Tree Bowl were played after New Year's Day, presumably as filler between the big New Year's Day bowls and the National Championship Game. It's a mess.

There will always be a lot to love about major college football, but I still lament the decisions made by the NCAA over the past several years.
 
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#222
Pilgrim said:
One thing for sure: the husky game is THE GAME for the Cougs. If there's one game to win that can save a season, it's the Apple Cup. Last year was the first since 2012 that the Cougs won, and they're going to be laser-focused on it this year. Will that be enough? The game is in Pullman, and that's not an easy place for opponents.

I salute my cyber-friend @Gaolee and look forward to what should be an exciting Apple Cup!! And I hope to be eating Cougar Gold and celebrating the outcome.
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Cheers! It is the one game per year that is impossible for us to both like the outcome. But that is more than a week from now. There is another game in the way.
 
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#223
FilterFunk said:
I fondly remember those days, too.

In the '70s, the only bowl games played after New Year's Day were all-star games (Hula Bowl, Senior Bowl, East-West Shrine Bowl, Blue-Gray Bowl). New Year's Day was Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Rose Bowl. Before that was the Gator Bowl, Peach Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and a few others.

In 2019, there were 39 bowl games, not including all-star games or the National Championship Game. Rinky-dink bowl games like the Birmingham Bowl, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Armed Forces Bowl and Lending Tree Bowl were played after New Year's Day, presumably as filler between the big New Year's Day bowls and the National Championship Game. It's a mess.

There will always be a lot to love about major college football, but I still lament the decisions made by the NCAA over the past several years.
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No bowls for the Ivies. They once did that, but it was 70 years ago. They dropped from 1A to 1AA 30 or 40 years ago. Sure, those guys get recruited, but they have to pass real classes. Yale-Harvard is this weekend. Then they are done.

My favorite bowl name is the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl. Somebody with my kind of twisted sense of humor came up with that one.
 
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#224
My SIL played for Ohio University (not THE OSU), and went to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl one year to beat Utah State. They had lost the MAC Championship game, which was a much bigger deal than the bowl game, from his account. He and his family had a great time there, which I think is the most important thing from the players perspective.
 
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Good thoughts, Mike. The playoffs do nothing for the 80% of teams that have never had a playoff berth...and most of them never will. I repeat: Groundhog Day in action.

I enjoy the bowl games; heck, I'd rather the Rose Bowl had never joined the pseudo-playoffs as a rotating playoff game, and I see no reason it ever needs to be anything but PAC-12 and B1G. ("Get offa my lawn" implied but now written.....oops.)
 
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#232
Ostie said:
UM barely squeaked by Illinois today. I gotta go with OSU next week.
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It wasn't just UM. TCU barely squeezed by Baylor. The fake USC barely squeezed by UCLA. Tennessee lost to the real USC. Even Georgia had issues with Kentucky, and OSU with Maryland. Clemson actually played 3 quarters and routed Miami. Alabama played a High School team and still looked less than dominate. Crazy day in the Top 10. Besides Tennessee, they won but most struggled.
 
#234
James Flowers said:
It wasn't just UM. TCU barely squeezed by Baylor. The fake USC barely squeezed by UCLA. Tennessee lost to the real USC. Even Georgia had issues with Kentucky, and OSU with Maryland. Clemson actually played 3 quarters and routed Miami. Alabama played a High School team and still looked less than dominate. Crazy day in the Top 10. Besides Tennessee, they won but most struggled.
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The Fighting Illini gave Michigan all they could handle as well. Although, it turned into a nice moment to end the season ( and career ) of their senior kicker.
 
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#235
FilterFunk said:
USC-UCLA will probably be a shootout.
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Well, I was right...but it was a pretty easy prediction!

I didn't know USC entered the game leading the country in turnover margin, and they got 4 more turnovers last night. That's a good way to win games. The ND game should be a good one.

It was good to see teams in the top 5 struggle against what were considered to be lesser opponents this late in the season. I'm glad there's no clear-cut dominant team, even Georgia, even though they deserve to be #1.
 
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#239
James Flowers said:
If the real USC (existing 100 years before the fake one) played like they did last night, it might be an interesting game. But they will get spanked this coming Sat in the Palmetto Bowl.
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Oh...so "real" has to do with which university was here first (actually 79 years before, not 100). I wasn't sure where you were going with that. Which makes me wonder - does Oregon State claim to be the "real" OSU because it was established before Oklahoma State and Ohio State?
 
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FilterFunk said:
Oh...so "real" has to do with which university was here first (actually 79 years before, not 100). I wasn't sure where you were going with that. Which makes me wonder - does Oregon State claim to be the "real" OSU because it was established before Oklahoma State and Ohio State?
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Forget about THE Ohio State University (founded in 1870). It's a latecomer compared to Ohio University (Founded in 1787).
 
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