Lots to discuss, here’s a quick rundown;
Ohio State’s Bowl Game
We will know where Ohio State will play in their bowl game by this time tomorrow, but what’s the early discussion about? Frankly, it depends on what happens in the Big 12 game, taking place right now. Let’s assume Oklahoma wins, which they should.
Oklahoma with that win, gets into the BCS title game. They’ll likely play Florida, who was #4 in the BCS but knocked off #1 today. They’ll probably leapfrog Texas, which will piss off Longhorn fans for decades. That will leave an at-large bid for Texas, but where will they go?
Sugar Bowl representatives are itching at a chance to put #3 and #4 in the same game, and they will have that chance to do so by taking Texas and Alabama. They don’t get to pick both at the same time, so I would expect them to grab Texas first, and hope the Fiesta Bowl takes Utah.
I think the Fiesta will jump at the Utes, especially with the close proximity that Arizona has to Utah. That same location will make Utah unattractive to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. That will leave the marquee matchup for the Sugar, and Ohio State to travel west, where their fans and dollars have visited so well these past 7 years.
What do I think about a Utes-Buckeyes matchup? I love it and I hate it.
I love it because this is the same Utah team that beat Michigan by 2 points, a mere TD conversion away from going into overtime. Yeah, they don’t scare me as much when you look back at that game.
I also love it because it’ll give me a personal battle with the Utah girl I’ve been talking about on this blog for a long time….the one that I went with to the OSU-Michigan game 2 weeks ago, but when I first met her, thought that BYU-Utah was the biggest rivalry. Yeah, she didn’t know too much about college football.
But I hate it because it’s a losing situation for us. We win, it’s only Utah. We lose and we lost to Utah. That sucks.
It’ll all be moot tomorrow night and we can begin our bowl watching.
The Cleveland Cavaliers
The Cavs are about a quarter away from being 17-3 (they’re up 26 points in Charlotte right now after 3), and they are FUN to watch. Complete dominance at home and a damn tough team on the road. At this point, there isn’t anything negative to say about them.
And to make it more delicious, Detroit Piston fans are beginning to panic.
The Cavaliers have won 16 of their last 17 games, and most of them haven’t even been close. 15 of their 20 games this season have been double-digit wins for Cleveland….that’s damned good basketball.
Meanwhile, the Pistons tried to make a blockbuster deal early in the season, and it has thus far been failing. Trading for Allen Iverson was supposed to make Detroit the team to beat in the East. But since AI first took the court in a Piston uniform, Detroit has gone 7-7, and has already had to “discipline” him for another practice-related incident.
After tonight’s win in Charlotte, the Cavs will find themselves 5 games ahead of the Pistons. Not at all an insurmountable lead, but an impressive one nonetheless.
Last year, after 20 games, the Cavs were struggling much like the Pistons are now. At the end of the season, the early lead was too much to overcome and Detroit cruised to the division title. Their lead after 20 games?
Five.
Various college football stuff
12th-ranked Ball State snubbed their noses mid-week at a chance to play Boise State in the Smurf Bowl. It would have put two unbeaten teams in battle for the right to claim robbery by the BCS system for overlooking mid-majors. The official reason was unclear, but the way they brushed off Boise State appeared arrogant, to say the least.
Ball State got their just rewards last night, losing to Buffalo 42-24 in the MAC championship game. Yeah, that Buffalo team. The ones who haven’t played in a bowl game since the paleolithic era.
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Virginia Tech won the ACC, the masses yawned at the game, and the BCS is now forced to take a team that isn’t even in the Top 20. This is the letterthat should be written millions of times;
Dear President Obama,
Please help change the BCS system into a playoff format.
Sincerely, everyone in America.
Before any righties get all pissy, Obama said he believes that playoffs should be created in college football. And he’s probably going to have a little bit of power real soon. That’s why I wrote that. Get over it.
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Cincinnati is apparently thumping their chests with their own BCS berth. At least one of their players has referred to themselves as “Ohio’s team”.
Yeah, OK. Whatever. You want that annual beatdown to start up again, you got it.
Both Ohio State and Cincinnati got pounded by BCS-bound schools….both by 4 touchdowns.
But when Ohio State losttheir second game, it was a nail-biter to another BCS-bound team, Penn State. Cincinnati’s second loss?
Connecticut. 40-16 was the score.
Sit down and shut up or we’ll actually grant you another million dollar payday to get pummeled by 30 points to us again.
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