Football? Did Someone Mention Football?

by Freneau on Dec 3, 2006 4:31 PM EST in Kansas City Royals News

As all baseball fans know, the promise of a playoff is really no promise at all, you'll still get random champions, division/league alignments will still produce injustices, as will strength of schedule. But hey, at least it was "settled on the field". Or something like that.

SB Nation has a nice fleet of football blogs that are worth checking out, and considering theres not much going on with sticks and gloves on this Sunday afternoon, I will now mention a few I like:

-Sunday Morning QB. One of the more intelligent, well-written CFB blogs out there. Theres something exhausting about college football (a sport I love) in the BCS/24-hour media-era, with every game seemingly just an afterthought on the larger road to endless debate. Its wearying to listen to week after week of intellectual heavyweights like Craig James, John Saunders, Lee Corso and the like passionately argue, complete with biases, bad arguments and junk stat-using. Still, in the wilderness, SMQ is worth reading. He's funny too.

College Football, the Sports World's Version of the Oxford Union,
only everyone's inarticulate and biased as hell.

-DoubleT Nation. A very good, very new Texas Tech blog. My parents are Red Raiders, as am I, in some less official way. Plus, you never know when the next media-created Bobby Knight "story" will break.

-Corn Nation. When did everything become a "nation" again? Still, a well-done, thorough as hell Nebraska blog.

(By the way, if anyone knows any good Mizzou/KU/KSU blogs, I'd love to know about them.)

-Bruins Nation is huge, and fastly becoming one of the most read college blogs. Although they may be upset in some minor way over Dorrell getting love for beating U$C.

-And I've gotta mention Provo Pride in tribute to loyal2.

-Rakes of Mallow. A newer Notre Dame blog thats generally well-done. You know you secretly love Notre Dame. You know you do...

And of course, in the professional game (SEC not included) theres Arrowhead Pride which has a freshly minted Chiefs meltdown to the Browns to talk about.

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Freakin' Wake Forest! Screw this crap!!!!

Being a long time Louisville fan, this is a real slap in the face. Louisville should be in the title game, or at least making Michigan eat dirt and worms, not facing some cute feel-good team in the little-school-that-could game. And Notre Dame getting into the BCS! Mark my words, on this un-natural day babies will be born with two heads to protest this assault on reason.

Oh! The painful travesty of the BCS system!

by James Quinn on Dec 3, 2006 10:20 PM EST reply actions

Its really kinda odd

that there was no mention of the Ville in the discussion, none

even random people were halfheartedly mentioning Boise on boards...

considering the "only two teams per conference" rule, ND was the highest ranked team that was eligible, btw

by Freneau on Dec 3, 2006 11:06 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah,

tell that to the two headed babies in five years.

Just joking. Taking on the homeresque tone of SMQ.

Really am pissed about the Louisville thing though. I know, blew the season by playing a poor second half at Rutgers, but damn, it seems Wake Forest is a long way to fall considering the 'ville would be playing for the National Title were it not for the slimist of margins.

by James Quinn on Dec 4, 2006 12:27 AM EST up reply actions

I think Michigan could argue that also

Since they lost to the best team in the country on the road by only 3.

USC losing to UCLA after everyone saying they'd be playing Ohio State is beyond hilarity, though.

by Berroa is the devil on Dec 4, 2006 8:26 AM EST up reply actions

I wonder

if louisville was undefeated would they have made it

by Freneau on Dec 4, 2006 11:46 AM EST reply actions

Abso-freakin'-lutte-ly

OK, I'm a fan, but everything I am going to write below is 100% likely to have occurred. Damn, if the 'ville had run the table there really wouldn't be any need to play the National Championship game. Just hand the shinny football trophy to the Cards and start talking about 2008.

If the BCS decided to go through the formality of actually playing the game, my prediction, Louisville 84-0. The loss would be so monumental that Columbus Ohio would be declared a national disaster zone and "THE" Ohio State University would changes it's name to "THE" Owned by Louisville University of Ohio. The game would be so out of hand by the 3rd quarter that the Cardinal's linebackers would be tackling Buckeye's simply by barking at them when the ball was snapped. Troy Smith would cry and file for PTSD disability at halftime. If Ohio State tried to put on a brave face in the 4th quarter Brian Brohm would dig up the body of "Woody" Hayes and use it as the pigskin for the final drives, spiking it into the endzone with each successive score.

After the game the NCAA would reconfigure College Football into new categories. I-AA, I-A, and I-A+. Only Louiville would be in the last category.

Boy, I hope Louisville doesn't loose to Wake Forest now. That would make me look stupid.

by James Quinn on Dec 5, 2006 12:29 PM EST up reply actions