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December 02 Note, as conferance championships are determined and the rankings are finallized, I am going to update this post.
Well thanks to the OSU - Michigan game, and West Virginia - Cincinnati playing later tonight. I have been thinking of the BCS Bowl Games and how it compares to a playoff system in college football. I think I have been in favor of a playoff system in the past, but I think the bowl system work. It just needs fine tuning. Here is my thoughts on the subject. There are 11 Division I-A conferances in college football. Based off of a quick glance at ESPN, there are the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Mid American, Mountain west, Pacific 10, SEC, Sun Belt, and WAC Conferances. So lets have a 6 bowl game system which features the conferance champion of each conferance plus either the highest rated independent school, or if they all suck, the highest ranked non champion.
The BCS National Championship game would feature the two highest ranked conferance champions. Ideally they should be ranked as #1 and #2. I mean, if you don't win your conferance, how should you expect to be in the national chapionship game? Also, take out the human polls. Base the rankings on the computer scores. Last year I was pumped for a OSU/Michigan rematch in the national championship game. But how messed up would it be to reconize OSU as the Big Ten Champion and Michigan as the National Champion? That type of thing would just make the conferance championship somewhat meaningless. The rest of the bowl games should feature the rest of the conferance champions either based on thier rank, or just by a lottery process. So this would add 1 more BCS bowl.
Now in the case of conferances like the Big Ten who can have co-champions. Either they get a conferance championship game, have tie breaking proceedures based on heads up play, or the BCS will reconize the highest ranked "co champion" as the BCS reconized champion for that conferance.
Here are the current list of conferance champions (CPU rank, Current BCS rank):
ACC - Virginia Tech (#1, #3)
Big 12 - Oklahoma (#6, #4)
Big East - West Virginia (#10, #9)
Big Ten - Ohio State University (#3, #1)
Conference USA - UCF (Unranked)
Mid American - Miami (Unranked)
Mountain west - Brigam Young (#19, #17)
Pacific 10 - Could not find
SEC - LSU (#2, #2)
Sun Belt - Florida Atlantic (Unranked) (Florida Atlantic won the conference's automatic bowl bid through a tiebreaker by virtue of its head-to-head victory against Troy.)
WAC - Hawaii (#12, #10)
Independent OR Highest Ranked Non Conferance Champion - Missouri (#4, #6)
And based on the CPU rank, here would be your money game.
BCS Championship Game: Virginia Tech vs LSU
The other 10 teams would play in other bowl games.
What do you think? November 05 So I thought I would say hello once again to my blog. I have been extreamly busy recently. Here are a few short blurps if you are intrested.
Been looking for a house or new apartment.
Movies have been so-so lately. The only movies I would write a review about are "300", "The Bourne Ultimatium" and "Transformers". See those if you havenn't already.
I watched the Bills beat up on the Bengals yesterday. Lynch made a fantastic run during the game.
That's all for now. Later! September 04 Jessica is my fiance. She is simply amazing & I want to tell everyone about it - I want to scream it from the roof-tops.  I honestly don't know how I got so lucky finding a girl as intelligent, talented, and gorgeous as she is. And did I mention that I basically robbed the cradle with this one? She's only 22 & she's in the hottest sorority on campus...and you know that Kentucky girls are the best.
Although she is extremely high maintenance (she requires manicures and pedicures on alternating weekends) and quite fussy at times (I should never deprive her of her Saturday "me nights"), I know that she is worth the extra effort. Even though she burns home-cooked meals and refuses to take lessons, it doesn't matter. One day she will be a highly paid doctor of anesthesiology and she can pay someone else to slave away in that unkown territory we know as the kitchen.
I love her! That's my Story and I'm sticking to it!
-JZ
March 22 This review is a few weeks due. I really want to tell you how great the movie is and you should go see it. I will expand on this when I can.
But the short take is... go see it. You will be glad you did.
I am trying to get back on the blogging horse. January 22
The only inconvenient truth in this story is that they will need to UPS in snow shovels to Arizona.
January 19 Good read on cancelling memberships online. Click Here to read the article. January 10 Great, so over the next two years minimum wage is going to increase by $2.10. That's fantastic news for those who keep their jobs. The others that the companies can't afford to pay will be screwed as they have to hit the unemployment lines. Walmart won't be hit as much as the small family owned companies.
The unemployment rate will go up, and the media will blame Bush as we get closer to 2008. Hope you all enjoy the new congress you voted in who while voting for this won't see much of the blame. You got to love the media. December 27
Can't say much about him as I did not follow him as much as other Presidents. I do know he pardoned Nixon. But he was a President non the less and should be remembered as he will be. God speed sir. December 18 Check out the trailer for the new movie "300". You can see it by clicking here. I think it looks pretty good.
JZ December 12
For My Democratic Friends:
"Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or s ecular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her self or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher."
For My Republican Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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