Outrage

Hey, welcome back, it's almost bowl season and the biggest topic of discussion will be the outrage of a few fan bases that don't get into the four team championship playoff.  Ohio State, TCU, Baylor or Florida State - fans of two of these schools will be apoplectic after their team is on the outside looking in this year.

Imagine these guys if the Seminoles are somehow jumped by Ohio State.  Where will they go in their ridiculous get-ups?  Where will the guy on the right show off his nipple? 

My two cents on the final four teams:
1.  Alabama
2. Oregon
3. Florida State
4.  TCU

And Buckeye fan goes berserk.  Hey, you lost to Virginia Tech, TCU didn't.

But these guys say,

"Garble, blaggle, Urban Meyer, garble gaggle, blaggety blah, Woody Hayes, glarggle blah, Archie Griffin, goobly god, sweater vest, gobbledy gook ."  If they could speak English, this is what they would say:

"We won the Big 10 and humiliated Wisconsin in the Championship Game!"  Big deal - the Big 10 was arguably the worst of the big five conferences and the only quality win on the Ohio State schedule is Michigan State.  Hell, they almost lost at Penn State - don't think the committee won't take that into account.  Adding Rutgers and Maryland this season will hurt Ohio State's case. Not having a good non- conference match-up will hurt too. (Sorry Bearcats, your defense is woeful.)

Baylor fans may gripe more - they beat TCU.  But the committee put TCU at No. 3 this past week and how can they knock them back to the 5th spot after the Horned Frogs won 55-3 in their finale?  They'll move TCU back a spot to acknowledge Florida State's unbeaten season.  Of course, I could be completely wrong because at the end of the day, Ohio State vs. Alabama is a much better TV match-up.

One thing I am certain of, sad Michigan fan won't have anything to watch this post-season and for that, I'm grateful.

This will all make great sports talk radio fodder for days and (most) women will roll their eyes when men start making a big deal about it. Fans of teams left out will immediately call for an eight team playoff - that could even include me as my Michigan State Spartans would probably be included.  Take the winner of the top five conferences and the best three at large teams - Baylor, Michigan State and Mississippi State.  The only problem I see with that is how many games do we expect these guys to play?  That would come to 15 games for the top two teams.  And Big 12, get your act together and get two more teams into your conference so you can have a championship game.  U.C. and Houston are right there, begging. 

Okay, that's it for now - more bowl games than ever this time around, 39?  Seriously, 39 games with five games on day one, December 20th.  There are new games in Montgomery, Alabama and the Bahamas this year!  As my daughter said, "You're doing that stupid thing again?"  Yes, yes I am.

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