Toid's Roundup
November 2, 2002 by Toid
I've waited all week to write this article. And I've waited all season for the most open race in recent college football history to come tumbling down; except I didn't think it would all happen in the same weekend. Count with me now the rankings of the teams that lost this weekend: Numbers 3, 4, 5, 10, 13, 16, 17, 23. Eight teams in the Top 25 (with four in the top 10) lost this weekend. With Texas, Miami, and FSU almost being defeated as well! Today made for some good football to watch, and I send out my respect to Gugals (and whoever else was with him) for standing through the 40 degree rain at the CU-OU game. It was hard to watch from the comfort of my own living room!
Before I get too involved in the ramifications of today, I will now talk about what happened to the fourth analyst. As you may know, there were four of us throughout most of the season. However, this weekend, due to lost interest, Trojan has dropped out. There is speculation this was due to his poor performance last week, and he couldn't handle being in last place. I gave him multiple chances to fill out his picks, as they are available 24/7 from Monday night to Friday night. I sent him an email on Thursday saying he had better pick his games fast cause the CSU vs. Air Force game was about to begin. Still no picks. He would have had to swallow a 0-10 weekend, with no BP's. I believe this deep sixed him. I know he had plenty of time to fill out the picks because I saw his name online everynight available for chat. He was not too busy. So hopefully for the rest of the season, it will be a tight race between Gugals, Aaron and I.
Ok, I mentioned I might say part two about the BCS this week in my article, and I've been brainstorming this all week. Obviously with the losses that happened today, the entire season is like a playoff, once you lose, it's very hard to get back into the middle of things. However, I do think the computers show us who should be ranked where, as they give us a better stat sheet of schedule strength and other technical stuff like that. So, I have come up with my own system, called: The Omnipotent Intercollegant Decider. AKA: TOID.
That's right, with a title like that, who can do anything but *not* bow down in reverence for the laws that would be enacted, be held true and fourn to be self-evidant? It would be the end all, all powerful decision maker for who plays where, however, the important thing to remember here is, the players on the field are deciding who plays where, all they have to do is win and TOID might smile upon them. That is, if you don't play intramural games like the Big East and ACC. How it works is a combination of the current BCS and the NFL playoff system. First, you take all the teams in the crap conferences (the Sunbelt, WAC, MAC and Mountain West) and mix them around even more. I say every league should have 16 teams in it. Within those 16 teams, there will be two divisions of 8 teams. You just add some of the WAC to the Big 12, most the Mountain West to the Pac-10, add the Sunbelt to the Big 10, the MAC to the SEC, and then add Notre Dame to the Big East (where they play in basketball), and then combine the Big East and ACC. That gives you 5 super conferences. Within each conference, play will be just like normal, with a winner emerging from each division. Then, all super conferences would be equal and have a championship game. Exactly like the Big 12 and SEC has today. That will give you 5 Super Conference Champions. None of this, oh, well Iowa doesn't happen to play Ohio St. this year stuff. None of this, we have to play an extra game because our conference wants more money, or, oh, we are Notre Dame so we don't even have to be in a conference and share our money. Meanwhile, TOID will have been acting very much like the BCS all season long, posting rediculous figures for everybody to nit-pick and talk about and get excited for. And it will be the one that decides who plays who in the Bowl Games. By this point, with the mini-playoff that the BCS creates in the regular season, and then the fairness of winning your division and then winning your super conference championship game, TOID should provide an accurate championship game. The remaining three spots will be At-Large Teams, with the 5 super conferences getting automatic bids. This system also eliminates two teams sharing the same conference title (like Iowa and Ohio St. might end up doing this year). This may not be the perfect solution, as there are a lot of people who would still like to see a playoff, but maybe TOID could be like hockey, and have a playoff with the 5 super conference champions plus 3 At Large teams, and have standard three elmination rounds to decide the winner, re-seeding opponents after each round to ensure the best two teams play each other in the end.
Oklahoma. With all the snow we received up here in Boulder, I thought Colorado would be better prepared for handling the ball. Obviously they weren't. You have to find their remaining schedule favorable, since they play the bottom for teams in the Big 12 South for their final four games. All, you have to do if your Oklahoma is don't beat yourself. What I mean by this is, don't try and turn Hybl into Mr. PS2 Numbers Kliff Kingsbury. The last thing the Sooners need is for Hybl to start throwing the ball all over the place. Just quietly hand the ball off, and throw when needed and the Sooners should continue to roll.
Ohio State. The Buckeyes seemed to look a little better this weekend with the blowout of Minnesota. They have a test against purdue this week, and then they play Michigan for their final game of the season. Michigan has a chance, but you have to like Ohio St. and Maurice Clarett to find a way to win. Ohio St, is now the new Notre Dame. They will probably be ranked third when polls come out, will this be enough for them to overtake Miami in the BCS and play OU for the championship?
Well, the analysts didn't have a good week with all the unforseen upsets, and even the bonus game went down to the wire with Morris Brown losing to Morgan State 42-41. What a galactic battle this Division II battle was! Time to update the rest of my webpage. Later.
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