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1 day 10 hours ago High school student

Google tells me that "Connor Stalions" plays football and basketball at Lake Orion (MI) high school. He was a freshman in Fall 2010. He scored 11 points in a varisty basketball game in January of this year.

Connor: A+ for balls, but listen up. This site is populated by mostly college students and graduates in their 20s and 30s, with a fair number of older folks. If you want to write for this audience, you're going to have to work hard to improve the quality of your writing and, most importantly, to come up with something original to say. Otherwise, you'll be eaten alive.
4 days 17 hours ago Actually, no, it wouldn't

If you cut through Brandon's rhetoric, the bottom line is the BCS is too big. His argument is that you can't have a meaningful champion when you start with more than 120 teams and play only 12 games. 

So I think he would be in favor of a reorganization of Division I that would result in a top division with 64 teams or whatever.
6 days 7 hours ago This is interesting:

This is interesting: 

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7945482/big-12-sec-champi...

This means everything has been decided. The debate is over. These kinds of secondary decisions are not made until the primary decisions are made.

This allows us to deduce that it is conference champions only (with an exception for higher-ranked independents). This game (Sugar Bowl?) is where the future 2011 Alabamas will go, just like the future 2006 Michgans will be in the Rose Bowl.

 
1 week 1 day ago Still hungry

No way this team has lost perspective. The "those who stayed" class is history, but these guys still have a lot to prove.

Another huge difference is the opening opponent. Although, thinking about it, in fact they are both the previous year's champion... Ha ha!
1 week 2 days ago Definitely

I suppose this could mean they plan to give someone #1 this year, no matter what.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Hoke make it a competition in camp.
1 week 3 days ago Trends

I think this is the direction the game is going -- the rules for what consitutes an illegal tackle will expand, along with the other rules with regard to contact.

People will bitch and moan about how the new rules are ruining the game, but in the end it will turn out to be just as exciting as before, but with fewer concussions.
2 weeks 4 days ago Those are reproductions

Not really evidence of anything other than Helmet Hut's view of what the colors were. I'm not saying the color hasn't changed -- only that those helmets are not proof of anything.
3 weeks 12 hours ago My understanding

My understanding of what I've read is that other formats were considered, but rejected in favor of the four-team format. Essentially the decision made last week was to adopt incremental change rather than trying to agree upon something more dramatic.

I think there will be another round of major-conference expansion after this is in place, and then probably another incremental step in the format after the dust settles from that, maybe to 6, but more likely to 8 (television will want two more games instead of two byes).
3 weeks 13 hours ago The correct reading

The correct reading of the two statements is something more like "[1] A true playoff is not possible without a complete reorganization of NCAA football, including a drastic reduction in the scope of Division I. [2] I'm not opposed to expanding the current system from two teams to four. It's not a true playoff, but it's marginally better than the status quo."
3 weeks 1 day ago Can't agree

2011 UCLA or a 9-4 conference champion with an upset in a championship game is not going to be ranked high enough to be among the top three conference champions.

I think you're missing a strong desire amongst all those conferences not named the SEC to avoid a situation where you have three teams from one conference in the playoff, no matter how worthy those teams might be. No doubt the television money that drives all this doesn't want that to happen either. The scenarios for that are considerably more likely with a 14-team SEC than some mediocre conference champion being among the top three champions in the BCS.

Since I can't edit above, I left out 1998:

#1 Tennessee, #2 Florida State, and #4 Ohio State are in as the top three conference champions. The committee chooses between #3 11-1 Kansas State and #5 Pac 10 champion 10-1 UCLA. Both teams have late, close losses away from home, but I go with Kansas State, whose only loss is in overtime in the conference championship game, partly because UCLA is headed to the Rose Bowl, while Kansas State will be screwed by the bowl system since their conference champion (Texas A&M) isn't in the playoff.
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