Florida vs. Alabama... your prediction (3 Viewers)

[sammy719]

Florida...24
Alabama...20

It will be a great game, coming down to penalties or a turnover, this will be the real BCS championship game....Sammy

 

[Warrior]

Florida will win and demolish Texas in the BCS Championship game; Oklahoma would smoke Florida, but they won't get a chance and will finish as the #2 team in the country.............

 

[tdubel]

George,

Actually, if OK gets by Missouz, then we have an OK vs SEC Nat. Championship. OK vs Florida or Alabama would be a great game.

As for my prediction, I see Alabama having a big game, not sure if enough to win, will be close. IF Florida is held to under 30 points, they will lose, if its over 30, they win.

PS George, sorry about your Pats, but as you know, I am happy for the Steelers! I was glad on a few fronts, they looked better as the game went on, more like the old steelers.

TD

 

[Combat]

Florida wins big. It's been a long time since Alabama played on the national stage - so those guys will be tight. Oklahoma and USC are the only teams that can give Florida a game.

 

[Warrior]

"Actually, if OK gets by Missouz, then we have an OK vs SEC Nat. Championship. OK vs Florida or Alabama would be a great game."

I though the rankings were Alabama, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma; if Florida beats Alabama, they are #1 and play #2 Texas.

Don't get me wrong, I hope you are right as Oklahoma is my favorite college team, have followed them since the mid 70's.


"PS George, sorry about your Pats, but as you know, I am happy for the Steelers! I was glad on a few fronts, they looked better as the game went on, more like the old steelers."

Stink a fork in the Patriots, they are done; even if they run the table and finish 11-5 (three of their remaining four games are on the road, so that is no easy task), they won't win the division and would lose the tiebreaker to both the Ravens and the Colts, the latter of whom once again won a game today they had zero business winning.

The Steelers demolished the Patriots today, that was an old fashion @#$ kicking, they are clearly the best team in the AFC, I look for them to play the Colts in the AFCCG and move on to the Super Bowl, they are the only AFC team that has a shot at beating the Giants.............

 

[Shiloh]

The loss of 2 Florida defensive lineman and Percy Harvin makes it a close game. I figure whoever scores last wins. Slight edge to Alabama.

 

[Capitolron]

Florida 24

Alabama 45

 

[tdubel]

Florida 24

Alabama 45

Ron,
that goes with my prediction, if Alabama can hold Florida under 30, the "ugly" gator goes back to the swamp! And before I get accused of being prejudice against Florida, that is an old Noles theme, "the good (FSU), the bad (Miami) and the ugly (Gators)".

TD

 

[tdubel]

"Actually, if OK gets by Missouz, then we have an OK vs SEC Nat. Championship. OK vs Florida or Alabama would be a great game."

I though the rankings were Alabama, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma; if Florida beats Alabama, they are #1 and play #2 Texas.

Don't get me wrong, I hope you are right as Oklahoma is my favorite college team, have followed them since the mid 70's.


"PS George, sorry about your Pats, but as you know, I am happy for the Steelers! I was glad on a few fronts, they looked better as the game went on, more like the old steelers."

Stink a fork in the Patriots, they are done; even if they run the table and finish 11-5 (three of their remaining four games are on the road, so that is no easy task), they won't win the division and would lose the tiebreaker to both the Ravens and the Colts, the latter of whom once again won a game today they had zero business winning.

The Steelers demolished the Patriots today, that was an old fashion @#$ kicking, they are clearly the best team in the AFC, I look for them to play the Colts in the AFCCG and move on to the Super Bowl, they are the only AFC team that has a shot at beating the Giants.............

George, I think BCS has OK at #2, so if they win out they are in! By the way, I am currently working a job in OK with an old fb player from the Billy Simms days, (he was Simms backup).

As for the Steelers, I am cautiously hopeful that they are getting stronger, I hope, as everyone else, they have a tough schedule and the Ravens are looking stronger too. But, here's to hoping the Ravens revert to their play against the Colts earlier in the year!

TD

 

[Combat]

George, I think BCS has OK at #2, so if they win out they are in! By the way, I am currently working a job in OK with an old fb player from the Billy Simms days, (he was Simms backup).


TD

And if OK gets beat by Missouri, the BCS may put a Texas team that will have finished 4th in their own conference in the BCS title game! Not likely that OK drops that game, but under that scenario: Missouri wins the conference, OK is runner up, Texas Tech with one loss and the tie breaker over Texas finishes third, and then Texas. That would be the end of the BCS in my opinion.

 

[tdubel]

And if OK gets beat by Missouri, the BCS may put a Texas team that will have finished 4th in their own conference in the BCS title game! Not likely that OK drops that game, but under that scenario: Missouri wins the conference, OK is runner up, Texas Tech with one loss and the tie breaker over Texas finishes third, and then Texas. That would be the end of the BCS in my opinion.

I almost want that to happen so the BCS goes away. I also agree that USC is playing real good football, what a year this could have been for a playoff!

TD

 

[Louis Badolato]

My prediction is unless the NCAA decides to toss the BCS in the trash where it belongs, and lets the teams decide their own fate on the field in a playoffs, I, and many other people who would otherwise love to watch football on Saturday as well as Sunday, will continue to ignore college football as a farce. How do you rank a team that lost to another team by 10 points on a neutral field above that other team with the same record, because that team lost on a last second play to a third team on the road, when the first team was able to beat the third team at home? Not to mention that several other teams who are undefeated (Utah, Boise State, Ball State) or who have only one loss (USC, Penn State, Texas Tech) are not even in the discussion. The BCS is a pathetic mess, and its only propped up in place as an artificial way to preserve the money generated by the Bowl Games. A simple answer is to have the Bowls be playoff games in a playoff format similar to NCAA March Madness, rotating each season so that a different major bowl is the championship. For example, if it was an 8 team playoff, you could have the Orange Bowl be the championship this year, but make it host a first round game next year, while the bowls hosting first round games this year would move up to second round games, etc.

 

[Warrior]

"George, I think BCS has OK at #2, so if they win out they are in! By the way, I am currently working a job in OK with an old fb player from the Billy Simms days, (he was Simms backup)."

Sweet, Billy was awesome. I go back to the Julius Ceasar Watts days and the option, "The Boz", The Selmon brothers, what teams they had and still do have. Would love to see the Sooners in the BCS game, their last trip was a disaster, so hopefully they'll get in and demolish Alabama or Florida.

"As for the Steelers, I am cautiously hopeful that they are getting stronger, I hope, as everyone else, they have a tough schedule and the Ravens are looking stronger too. But, here's to hoping the Ravens revert to their play against the Colts earlier in the year!"

They are getting better and should have the #2 seed and host the Colts in the AFCCG, the Jets blew it yesterday with that stinker vs the Bronkos (but they are the Jets, what else do you expect, 40 years and counting of futility).......................

 

[eborris]

Personally, I think USC take em both, all three if you throw in Oklahoma.

 

[jazzeum]

My prediction is unless the NCAA decides to toss the BCS in the trash where it belongs, and lets the teams decide their own fate on the field in a playoffs, I, and many other people who would otherwise love to watch football on Saturday as well as Sunday, will continue to ignore college football as a farce. How do you rank a team that lost to another team by 10 points on a neutral field above that other team with the same record, because that team lost on a last second play to a third team on the road, when the first team was able to beat the third team at home? Not to mention that several other teams who are undefeated (Utah, Boise State, Ball State) or who have only one loss (USC, Penn State, Texas Tech) are not even in the discussion. The BCS is a pathetic mess, and its only propped up in place as an artificial way to preserve the money generated by the Bowl Games. A simple answer is to have the Bowls be playoff games in a playoff format similar to NCAA March Madness, rotating each season so that a different major bowl is the championship. For example, if it was an 8 team playoff, you could have the Orange Bowl be the championship this year, but make it host a first round game next year, while the bowls hosting first round games this year would move up to second round games, etc.

Ditto. Why not just go back to the old system, which was no system at all. But then neither is the BCS.

 

[Warrior]

"Ditto. Why not just go back to the old system, which was no system at all. But then neither is the BCS."

No, no, NOOOOOOO!!!!! Remember how the old system had conferences locked into bowl games no matter what? Big 10 vs Pac 10 in the Rose Bowl, Big 12 in the Orange Bowl, etc, etc, just a TERRIBLE antiquated system.

I vividly recall one year BYU of all teams being undefeated and they played a 6-5 Michigan team in some rinky dink bowl game and they won and were the national champions that year.

No thanks; as flawed as this system is, it's not as bad as the old one......

 

[Combat]

The one downside to a college football playoff is that it would extend the season even further. Teams are already playing 12 or 13 games even before the bowls. They used to play 11. They have already created a BCS title game in addition to the four major bowls. It would also further erode the illusion that this is still an amateur sport. I would hate to see it go the way of professional sports adding more games, allowing more teams into the playoffs all due to greed for the extra TV money.

 

[Warrior]

"The one downside to a college football playoff is that it would extend the season even further. Teams are already playing 12 or 13 games even before the bowls. They used to play 11. They have already created a BCS title game in addition to the four major bowls. It would also further erode the illusion that this is still an amateur sport. I would hate to see it go the way of professional sports adding more games, allowing more teams into the playoffs all due to greed for the extra TV money."

Extending the season further is a negative, no question, but it's a farce that there is no playoff to determine a true national champion. Basically, one loss and you are toast, just ask USC or whoever gets the short straw between Oklahoma and Texas.................

 

[Louis Badolato]

The one downside to a college football playoff is that it would extend the season even further. Teams are already playing 12 or 13 games even before the bowls. They used to play 11. They have already created a BCS title game in addition to the four major bowls. It would also further erode the illusion that this is still an amateur sport. I would hate to see it go the way of professional sports adding more games, allowing more teams into the playoffs all due to greed for the extra TV money.

Frankly Combat, I don't buy this argument for several reasons: First of all, every other sport, including Division 1AA, 2 and 3 football have a playoff, and finish their season within a reasonable time (in fact, the other football playoffs are all finished way before the bowl games). Additionally, anyone who does not recognize that this multi-billion dollar industry is not a professional sport is fooling themselves. Finally, why not have everyone play 11 games, eliminate the ridiculous conference championship games for the top 8 teams, which are either mismatches (come on, Oklahoma versus Missouri, what's the point?) or means of eliminating a team who should be playing for a championship by forcing two teams who are qualified to be playing for the title to knock one out, thereby falsely preventing two teams from the same conference from playing for the title, and then play an 8 team playoff which would add only 3 games to the schedule of the two teams who made the championship.

 

[Warrior]

"Frankly Combat, I don't buy this argument for several reasons: First of all, every other sport, including Division 1AA, 2 and 3 football have a playoff, and finish their season within a reasonable time (in fact, the other football playoffs are all finished way before the bowl games). Additionally, anyone who does not recognize that this multi-billion dollar industry is not a professional sport is fooling themselves. Finally, why not have everyone play 11 games, eliminate the ridiculous conference championship games for the top 8 teams, which are either mismatches (come on, Oklahoma versus Missouri, what's the point?) or means of eliminating a team who should be playing for a championship by forcing two teams who are qualified to be playing for the title to knock one out, thereby falsely preventing two teams from the same conference from playing for the title, and then play an 8 team playoff which would add only 3 games to the schedule of the two teams who made the championship."

Outstanding, outstanding post, agree 1000%; the conference championship games are all about money, nothing more, nothing less and more often than not knock a team out of contention unfairly, why not use those extra games as playoff games.

There has to be a way for the top 8 teams in the country to have a playoff revolving around the bowl games, this debate rages on and gets worse every year, with AT LEAST one legit team gettting screwed, this year, an all time record with three teams getting screwed (USC, the Alabama Florida loser and either Oklahoma or Texas)...............