2006 College Football Season

I'm hoping Notre Dame gets a BCS nod anyway, despite not having it by default. They're good enough with their 2 or 3 amazing theatrical plays per game to make a real spectacle. Don't know if it'll happen, though - there'll probably have to be some shaking up at the top of the pile again next week if they're gonna have much of a chance.

In other news, I think BYU got shafted in the rankings again. Not by much - our schedule hasn't warranted too much in terms of rankings, but we've done pretty well, we're running on an 8 or 9 game winning streak (I can't remember which), and John Beck is one of the highest ranked quarterbacks in the nation. We swept our conference (not too horribly hard, but TCU and Utah have both had decent seasons), and yet we play the 4th or 5th ranked PAC-10 team in the Las Vegas Bowl. Oh, well. The end of the BYU-Utah game was beyond classic, at least. Can't beat an ending like that.

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At least Urban Meyer is mildly revolutionary in how he runs things. He might be able to pull some fast ones on OSU before getting his butt kicked. I would honestly be very surprised if Florida put up very much of a fight.

Personally, I think half the rankings are a joke - everyone at the top of the pile is based on their last few weeks' performance, while everyone in the rankings but after, say, 9 or 10 is based on overall performance. Pick one and be consistent.

On the plus side, many of the BCS matchups should be interesting. Notre Dame might be outmatched against LSU, but they should at least put up a fight, as they always do. Michigan-USC should be an ace game. I'm definitely hunkering down with chips and popcorn for that one.

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Well, like I said - I would be surprised. It's not that it's not possible for Florida to put up a fight - they're a very good team with some incredible coaching, and they've put down a lot of good teams and silenced a lot of critics. It's just that at last appearance, Ohio State was firing so well on all cylinders and generally just dominating in most areas of the game, if they're up to their par performance I think Florida would be hard-pressed to stop them. It would surprise me.

Obviously there're a lot of things at work going into a national championship game (or any bowl game, really) that could affect - adversely or otherwise - either team. A long period of time away from real gameplay, possible sicknesses or injuries, simple psyching out, new strategies and plays, intense scrutiny of recordings of the opposing team, etc. We might see two completely different teams on the field in January.

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Yay for TCU dismantling Northern Illinois and BYU destroying Oregon! The commentary and anything spoken by the referees were fantastically awful. I don't know how many times the referee said that a penalty applied to the wrong team, or announced the wrong down. And the announcers weren't much better, calling the Oregon quarterback Brady Quinn and slipping up all over the place. It kinda fit the game at the time, though, because the first quarter was patchy at best. Cleared up right nice by the beginning of the second quarter, though.

I find it offensive that an undefeated-in-conference, 9-game winning streak, 10-2 BYU team got put up with the number 5 Pac-10, 4-game losing streak, 7-5 Oregon team. It didn't really let BYU shine (or fall on its face), but it did make us look good when we picked Oregon apart most of the game. Feel kinda sorry for Gary Crowton, though. We made a fool out of him.

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Holy Boise State! Big score for the underdogs, huge statement for the introduction of a playoff system to division I football. I'm so glad I stayed up and watched the whole thing, because the last few minutes and the overtime were incredible. They'll be showing those highlights for a while.

Was very disappointed by the USC-Mich game. I expected more out of Michigan, but they never were able to figure USC out. USC kept running the same basic defense, and they just never adjusted.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I have no doubt in my mind that USC will deserve to be atop the preseason rankings, yeah.

We thought for sure the last BSU play in regulation (the pass-lateral-run in) would be the play of the day on ESPN, but the fake play option with the quarterback running weak side and having his teammate (I can't remember who it was who took the snap) passing into the endzone was brilliant, and then the pass fake and handing off the ball behind the back with the left hand for the 2-point conversion...after playing straight-up football for the first 59 minutes, it was fantastic. On each play, you really had to see the replays to catch just how well put-together they were.

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I just read the recap; 22 points in the final 86 seconds of regulation? Preposterous.

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That was a very disappointing game of football. I gave up shortly after the 3rd quarter started and went back to playing FFXII. To think I gave up a road trip to watch it.

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That was worse football than the Notre Dame game. What a letdown. I was watching with a die-hard Ohio State fan, too, so that was even better. Plus Urban Meyer is not well-loved in my neck of the woods, having coached the University of Utah over us for a while. Oh, well. Now that the season's over I can start turning to college basketball again.

Oh and go BYU! ^_^

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