College Football Championships and Bowl Season

[Tyche]

Bowl Game schedule...

EagleBank Bowl
Wake Forest vs Navy

magicJack St. Petersburg
Memphis vs South Florida

Pioneer Las Vegas
BYU vs Arizona

R&L Carriers New Orleans
Southern Miss vs Troy

San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia
Boise State vs TCU

Sheraton Hawaii
Hawaii vs Notre Dame

Motor City
Florida Atlantic vs Central Michigan

Meineke Car Care
West Virginia vs North Carolina

Champs Sports
Wisconsin vs Florida State

Emerald
Miami vs California

Independence
Northern Illinois vs Louisiana Tech

Papajohns.com
NC State vs Rutgers

Valero Alamo
Missouri vs Northwestern

Roady's Humanitarian
Maryland vs Nevada

Texas
Rice vs Western Michigan

Pacific Life Holiday
Oklahoma State vs Oregon

Bell Helicopter Armed Forces
Houston vs Air Force

Brut Sun
Oregon State vs Pittsburgh

Gaylord Hotels Music City
Boston College vs Vanderbilt

Insight
Kansas vs Minnesota

Chik-fil-a
LSU vs Georgia Tech

Outback
South Carolina vs Iowa

Capital One
Georgia vs Michigan State

Konica Minolta Gator
Clemson vs Nebraska

Rose Bowl
Penn State vs USC

FedEx Orange
Cincinatti vs Virginia Tech

AT&T Cotton
Ole Miss vs Texas Tech

Autozone Liberty
Kentucky vs East Carolina

AllState Sugar
Utah vs Alabama

International
Buffalo vs Connecticut

Tostitos Fiesta
Ohio State vs Texas

GMAC
Tulsa vs Ball State

FedEx BCS National Championship
Florida vs Oklahoma

[MrW]

Oh man, that SEC Championship better be a good game. UF is on a tear right now not sure anyone can play with them at the moment.

[Tyche]

If they all played on a neutral field, Florida (according to Vegas) would be favored against everyone. Oklahoma would be favored over Texas. Oklahoma and Texas (and USC) would be favored over Alabama. The spreads for USC vs Texas/Oklahoma wasn't reported, but I'm guessing would be pretty damn close.

[Kyo]

Go Gators!

[MrW]

Go Gators!

Lol I got an email a few days ago from the Alumni Association about the game. I had half a mind to go :/

I would think Texas/Oklahoma would have a slight edge against USC though.

[LAGUNA]

My predictions

MAC Championship
Buffalo vs Ball State

SEC Championship
Florida vs Alabama

Big 12 Championship
Missouri vs Oklahoma (Secretly cheering for mizzou)

ACC Championship
Virginia Tech vs Boston College

Conference USA Championship
East Carolina vs Tulsa

[Cephius]

obligatory "college football without playoffs = fail" post. When is obama gonna change it up, har har

Anyway, I don't think bama can hang with florida, but out of all the matchups I think it has the most potential. Should be a fun game..

[MrW]

I like Tulsa against East Carolina too.

[Tyche]

I believe USC would be favored against Texas but probably a toss up (or possibly slight edge) to Oklahoma. I remember the last time Vegas released these hypothetical odds that USC was favored against everyone...and that was when Texas was undefeated.

[Koyuki]

MAC Championship
Buffalo vs Ball State

SEC Championship
Florida vs Alabama

Big 12 Championship
Missouri vs Oklahoma

ACC Championship
Virginia Tech vs Boston College

Conference USA Championship
East Carolina vs Tulsa

[Plow]

I could be dead wrong, and they could come in and just crush them... but I think this is going to be a tough game for OU.


If Mizzou plays well enough to win, or Bama wins, Texas may end up benefitting from not having to play in the championship. I doubt it, but if OU barely pulls it off Texas could get bumped back up.

[recuperi]

That would just end up causing more controversy I'd say (OU winning and Texas moving up while idle) but I won't say it's impossible. I mean, Texas won by just about the same margin this past week as OU and the Sooners passed them up, albeit they played a higher ranked team in the rivalry game.

It'd be hard to get an actual OU/Texas NC game, but of course there is still plenty of room for a loss in the bowls and conference championships. There's a decent possibility of ending up with split champions at the end of it all

[Mizango]

Gators and ECU Pirates !

[Plow]

That would just end up causing more controversy I'd say (OU winning and Texas moving up while idle) but I won't say it's impossible. I mean, Texas won by just about the same margin this past week as OU and the Sooners passed them up, albeit they played a higher ranked team in the rivalry game.

It'd be hard to get an actual OU/Texas NC game, but of course there is still plenty of room for a loss in the bowls and conference championships. There's a decent possibility of ending up with split champions at the end of it all

If bama loses I'm pretty sure the polls have to go unanimously Florida 1 OU 2, and it still might not avoid OU/TX.

[Mizango]

Fuck Texas. They should fall out of the top 25.






In the perfect world.

[Arnwulf]

It's funny how, in the Big 12 argument, people forget about Texas Tech, well at least ESPN does. If you're saying Texas belongs in the champ. game because they beat Oklahoma, then what about Texas Tech? They beat Texas, therefore the argument that Texas fans are using is void. You can't solve the Big 12's problem with head to head matchups.

That said, NC game will be Oklahoma vs. Florida. At least, that's what I hope it will be.

[Tyche]

Florida would have to look so absolutely fucking terrible in a win to not advance to the NC game. Even then, I think it would be immensely difficult to see a Texas/OU NC game. I'd put it somewhere between a .0001% and .0002% chance of actually happening. But hey, if it did happen, the BCS would burn to the fucking ground, and that would be great.

[Arnwulf]

Texas / OU NC game would never happen, it's been said year after year that voters would never allow for a team that doesn't win their own conference to be ranked high enough to advance to the NC game.

I remember that discussion from all the rumblings around this area 2 years (3?) ago when they were talking about maybe having an OSU - Michigan rematch in the NC game.

[Byrd]

it's been said year after year that voters would never allow for a team that doesn't win their own conference to be ranked high enough to advance to the NC game.

Just because it's been said by talking heads doesn't make it true. If it is true, and Oklahoma loses Saturday, are the polls going to vault USC, Utah or Penn State over Texas into the title game?

(Just so we're clear, the answer is no).

Teams that haven't won their conference have made it to the NCG before (Nebraska, 2001, Oklahoma 2003). And although the system has changed so it's now more voter-heavy and less likely to happen, it's certainly possible for a team to not win its conference and make the NCG. This season, should Oklahoma lose this weekend, it will happen again.

[Arnwulf]

That's a good point, although I can't imagine a scenario where Missouri will actually beat Oklahoma, but it would throw another huge wrench into the BCS. It seems that no matter what, the BCS is screwed yet again this year. Yet somehow I see all the execs smoking a cigar and kicking back enjoying their swimming pools full of money as they watch the BCS again be a major topic of discussion, so much that even a presidential candidate was asked to comment.