[NU Sports] Tide rolls, yawn!

[hakirsch at aol.com]

The system worked.(At least this year anyhow)  Anyone watching the game last night and who followed this past season can only conclude that the Tide is #1 and the Tigers #2. Okie State and Stanford,as good as they were certainly can't make any legitimate claims to be any higher. Throw in several exciting bowl games that would not have occurred with a playoff system and you should have little complaint from those looking for clarity and an exciting season.  The only downer was that the game last night lacked excitement

Harry
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From: Michael Vance <michael.vance at att.net>
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:42:24 
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Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Tide rolls, yawn!

But the problem was that no one ever proposed putting OkSU against 
Alabama. Anyone who was clamoring for a different matchup was looking 
for OkSU against LSU. The question that everyone asked was whether 
Alabama belonged. Obviously, they did. Did they really belong in a 
four-team playoff? Absolutely. But then, according to the rankings, we'd 
have had two teams who didn't win their division in the playoff, as 
Stanford finished the season at #4. We'd have been debating whether 
Oregon should have gotten in over them.

As of right now, the only sure-fire way to get to the championship game 
is to win all of your games in one of the power conferences. If you 
don't do that, then you're leaving yourself at the mercy of the voters 
or computers or whoever, and you really can't complain. Well, you can, 
but it just comes off as whining.

-Michael

On 1/9/2012 11:54 PM, Mike Nolan wrote:
> I can't help but think that there are a few schools that could have
> put up more points than LSU did tonight, like Oklahoma State.
>
> So, the 2011 season ends, and the 2012 season starts in less than 34 weeks.
>
> Go Cats!
> --
> Mike Nolan
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