Oh boy, four more bowls games than what we had last year. Now 78 teams from D1 football will go someplace to play an extra football game this year called something. There are only 128 teams in D1 so we are getting ever so close to sending a team with a losing record to a bowl game. I think we have reached the point where we need to let the selection committee should value of the worse four teams and lets have a four team playoff to determine who is the worse team. Wouldn't that be more exciting that finding out who is the best?
Sounds a lot like high school playoffs when teams with 3 wins or less get in. There is a good chance that the team winning the NFC South in the NFL just might not win half their games either. What we will do to make more money?
So we now have the four that can still win the so called national championship. The first semi final will be Alabama and Ohio State and the other Oregon and Florida State with the two winners meeting in the jumbo winner take all game. All other games are now just the . com bowl games to give 74 other teams something to do over the holidays. Included in those 74 other teams are four from right here in our back yard.
Carolina will be heading to Ford Field in Detroit for their Bowl Game now called the Fast Lane Bowl. Game time will be at 4:30 on Friday after Christmas and they will be playing Rutgers.
Duke is heading for a bowl game for the third year in a row which has never been done by Duke Football before. They will meet 15th rank Arizona St. in the Sun Bowl. Game time is December the 27th at 2pm.
If you are a Big Four fan there will be a double header on the 26th. N C State is heading South to play UCF in the St Petersburg Bowl or the bitcoin.com Bowl. That game is scheduled for 8pm
ECU gets up for teams that are from named programs or other in state school. They will get a shot at the Southeastern Conference when they meet Florida in the Birmingham Bowl. That game is on January 3rd at noon.
It is really nice to say you have gone to a Bowl game but Carolina and State are playing the day after Christmas. These two games are not top tier games and can either school sell their quota on top of Christmas. Duke's game at least is on the weekend but can Duke sell that many tickets for El Paso. ECU game is on New Years weekend and I think they will sell out their allotment.
Rumors have been flying for more than a year now and it is finally it has come to past as Kevin Crudup has resigned as the football coach at Nash Central. He leaves Nash Central having lost the last 24 games he coached which is the third longest active streak in North Carolina High school football. Now those rumors about who wants the job are on fire even more.
The big question is always when a coach leaves or gets canned is there anyone on staff qualified to take over the program? You know the perception ever since Nash Central was opened that Nash Central had and has good athletes and would be a good program to coach. The perception to the outside world now is that the administration at Nash Central views sports as a necessary evil and to find a coach that wants to coach at a school under those circumstances will be hard to find a quality coach from the outside world.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Strength Of Schedule
We now know the results from the Saturday football conference championship games and Alabama, Oregon , Florida State, TCU, Ohio State and Baylor won their games Saturday. Four of them will play in the playoffs that will be announced on ESPN today at 12:30. Please note that the timing in not in conflict of any NFL game. I hope you are aware of this but the playoff selection committee will also be deciding on where Carolina, Duke, State and ECU play in a bowl game.
Every week now for the last five or six weeks this committee has given us their rankings and from one week to the next it seems they have altered the top four just to see the reaction the fans would get to where ever their team was placed. It seems to me that one of the five criteria that the committee looks at is conference champion. So these past weeks they have played with 48 cards instead of 52 because until last night nobody knew who the aces were in the deck. So all this speculations has been fun but you know like I know this has all been for TV ratings for ESPN. There is no reason they couldn't lock up the committee this weekend in a hotel like college basketball and spit out the teams in. Isn't life more fun with Bracketology in basketball over these ranking without knowing conference champions.
One of the five points of value to the committee is Strength of Schedule. As of Thursday before any game was played this weekend the top team in Strength of Schedule was Auburn. They are 21st in the voting so where does strength of schedule fit in. Second is Mississippi who is 8th in the playoff voting.
I know there has been plenty of conversation this year about the poor non conference schedule that N C State played but they played the 20th toughest schedule in the country. Alabama was first in the playoff voting but SOS was 34. FSU 75, Oregon, 73, TCU 70, Ohio St 69 and Baylor was 148. It is obvious to me that SOS only matters if you win.
I don't like this confusing method of every team on your schedule floats every week based on each team on your schedule and what they did. The only time where a team is ranked is the week you played them. I sure would love for the Wolfpack to have played Clemson towards the end of the year instead of the middle because Clemson wasn't nearly as good late in the season as they were when they hosted the Pack early in conference play.
There is talk this morning that Oklahoma losing yesterday to Oklahoma State is bad for TCU and Baylor but both also played Okla St. Why should any game effect you if you were not involved in the game? Here are my four Alabama 1, Oregon 2, Florida State 3 and Ohio St 4. To make this a national championship playoff that need a team from the north or Midwest.
Just for the matter of knowing Carolina is 57th in SOS, Duke 205 and ECU 201. RPI voting is State 43rd, Carolina 57th, Duke 28th and ECU 59th. If you look at those numbers it all adds up to a popularity contest. The committee can say they are going by five basic rules but in the end they will vote for who makes for the best TV ratings and we will all watch. Unlike basketball where the underdog is exciting the first weekend there will be no underdog announced today.
We live in a modern world right? There are many things that are politically correct. I can guarantee you one thing about this power five conference deal in college football. The good ole boys still run college football but there is one new member to the club ESPN.
Every week now for the last five or six weeks this committee has given us their rankings and from one week to the next it seems they have altered the top four just to see the reaction the fans would get to where ever their team was placed. It seems to me that one of the five criteria that the committee looks at is conference champion. So these past weeks they have played with 48 cards instead of 52 because until last night nobody knew who the aces were in the deck. So all this speculations has been fun but you know like I know this has all been for TV ratings for ESPN. There is no reason they couldn't lock up the committee this weekend in a hotel like college basketball and spit out the teams in. Isn't life more fun with Bracketology in basketball over these ranking without knowing conference champions.
One of the five points of value to the committee is Strength of Schedule. As of Thursday before any game was played this weekend the top team in Strength of Schedule was Auburn. They are 21st in the voting so where does strength of schedule fit in. Second is Mississippi who is 8th in the playoff voting.
I know there has been plenty of conversation this year about the poor non conference schedule that N C State played but they played the 20th toughest schedule in the country. Alabama was first in the playoff voting but SOS was 34. FSU 75, Oregon, 73, TCU 70, Ohio St 69 and Baylor was 148. It is obvious to me that SOS only matters if you win.
I don't like this confusing method of every team on your schedule floats every week based on each team on your schedule and what they did. The only time where a team is ranked is the week you played them. I sure would love for the Wolfpack to have played Clemson towards the end of the year instead of the middle because Clemson wasn't nearly as good late in the season as they were when they hosted the Pack early in conference play.
There is talk this morning that Oklahoma losing yesterday to Oklahoma State is bad for TCU and Baylor but both also played Okla St. Why should any game effect you if you were not involved in the game? Here are my four Alabama 1, Oregon 2, Florida State 3 and Ohio St 4. To make this a national championship playoff that need a team from the north or Midwest.
Just for the matter of knowing Carolina is 57th in SOS, Duke 205 and ECU 201. RPI voting is State 43rd, Carolina 57th, Duke 28th and ECU 59th. If you look at those numbers it all adds up to a popularity contest. The committee can say they are going by five basic rules but in the end they will vote for who makes for the best TV ratings and we will all watch. Unlike basketball where the underdog is exciting the first weekend there will be no underdog announced today.
We live in a modern world right? There are many things that are politically correct. I can guarantee you one thing about this power five conference deal in college football. The good ole boys still run college football but there is one new member to the club ESPN.
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