Saturday, September 15, 2007
College Football Note
I normally root against both Michigan and Notre Dame. In the forthcoming "Stink Bowl," I'll be cheering for Michigan. Why? Because a 3-9 season for the Irish might force them to re-think joining the Big East Conference for football (ND belongs for basketball) and my school was a founding Big East member after I graduated (Syracuse, 1980).
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Carl, nothing personal, but the Big Least needs to be dissolved. That lame-ass crap of scheduling blatantly weak O-o-C opponents and putting all their "tough" games towards the back half of the season so that one of them (usually it's expected to be West Va) will wind up undefeated towards the end, thereby "earning" themselves an obviously unearned national championship bid is totally bogus.
These schools *should* be ashamed of their football programs.
Thankfully, it hasn't yet worked, since the first time one of them actually meets a determined opponent -- ranked or unranked -- they tend to crumple like a tinfoil crutch supporting Rosie O'Donnell.
As a result it's saved everyone from the annoyance of hearing one of them crow about how they are being "left out" when they get bypassed by a set of polls that can figure that crap out, as well as the humiliation of being absolutely spanked by a blatantly better opponent in an NC game if they DID get into one...
I did a check of how the top four teams in the Big Least were doing at the 3/4rds point last season -- with 3 undefeateds (IIRC, Louisville, WVa, and Rutgers) and Pitt at x-&-1, the MEDIAN ranking of the teams each one had played on the CBS 120 was 70 to 80. I think Louisville had the best one with a median of something like 65. Contrast that with eventual NC Florida, whose median ranking was in the 40s.
If Notre Dame has any sense, they'll push to join the Big 10 and make it a 12-team 2-division conference with a playoff between halves at season end. Then everyone benefits.
;-)
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