Just some final thoughts before the bowl season:
* Raise your hand if you can tell me where the GoDaddy.com Bowl is being played and what teams are involved?
* Many have decried the commercialization of college football, and nothing gives move credence to their argument than the absurdly bloated bowl schedule which includes two teams playing each other in a baseball stadium with coaches that were fired after the regular season ended. (The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl pitting (6-7) UCLA and (6-6) Illinois. The only worthy opponent I see in the game is Hunger.) I’m all for the capitalism and giving the consumer what he wants, but at some point the good of the game must come before the dollar signs…or not.
*Alabama is probably the second best team in country. But they should not have been given the spot in the Title game. I have always believed that conference titles mean a lot and conference champs should be duly rewarded. The BCS bosses could have created a rule requiring a team to win its conference to be eligible for the BCS Title game, they didn’t. Just another flaw in a long line of flaws the system has brought us.
* Saban was a candy ass for putting Okie State #4 behind Stanford. The media is too cowardly to call him out on it.
* Jordan Jefferson just put in the WORST performance in SEC Title Game history. For the game he was 5 or 13 for 30 yards with 1 TD. I will be SO GLAD when that guy is gone. I admit my dislike for Jefferson borders on irrational, but his 83.2 QB rating for the game was the worst I have been able to find since the inception of the game in 1992. Words like putrid, feeble, pathetic, abominable, horrible, worthless and pathetic barely do him justice. He may be the starting QB for the best team in the country, but he still sucks.
* Some of the talking heads are bitching because the Sugar Bowl took Virginia Tech over Kansas State, Boise State or Baylor. I personally would have liked to see either Boise or Baylor take on the Wolverines. But Tech has name recognition and will attract a bunch of fans down to New Orleans. Remember, bowls are about MONEY. Selling tickets, renting hotel rooms and boosting the local economy are far more important that who “deserves” to be there or the quality of the game.
* If LSU can beat Bama for a second time this season, this Tiger team must be ranked very highly in the all-time pantheon of college football. They have won 12 of 13 games by double digits, beaten 5 teams ranked in the final BCS Top 25 poll and 8 teams headed to bowls. They defeated Pac-12 champ Oregon in Dallas, won the SEC Title game over Georgia in Atlanta, beat Big East Champ West Virginia in Morgantown and emerged victorious over Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
* The GoDaddy.com Bowl will be played on January 8, 2012, in Mobile, Alabama pitting Northern Illinois versus Arkansas State. I for one won’t be watching.
