Posted on 12/06/2014 8:50:06 PM PST by re_nortex
Baylor beat:
Oklahoma
Tcu
K-state
Oklahoma was picked to finish #2 this year behind Alabama.
The big 10 championship game was a blowout because the big 10 is weak.
A home loss to a mediocre team is more respectable than 60+ friggin' points. This isn't Canadian football.
It was a bitch back then. Train trips and broken legs. Ouch!
Baylor gave up 58 points at home. That's over 8 touchdowns.
Actually, the best system for picking a national champion was probably the worst for conference prestige:
The Rose Bowl had the most prestige, but always featured a Pac-8 team. The Sugar Bowl always featured an SEC team. If the PAC or the SEC had a top-two team, they could pretty much count on picking whoever they wanted to be the opponent, including independent teams, like Notre Dame. And if the top two teams were PAC and SEC teams, the SEC team would probably play in the Rose Bowl because it was the most prestigious, and the 2nd place SEC team would host the Sugar. It was when every conference tried to have their own prestige bowl that the system began to fall apart.
Ha! Giving up 35 to Virginia Tech is like giving up 90 to Baylor.
The coordinators of the Rose Bowl caused all of it. They shut it down to any team outside of the PAC-10 or BIG-10.
OK, Lets play.
That went bankrupt pretty fast. Reap it Rose Bowl.
(Put a damn bathroom in there at the least)
Aggie War Hymn (aTm)
Fight On (U$C)
FSU Fight Song
Victory March (Notre Dame)
I like all of it.
I was blasting TN fight songs out of my truck in 1989 when we demolished UCLA in Pasadena. 14 point dogs ended up 35-7.
It was a hoot!
Yes, I was at the stadium in Pasadena and having fun.
I thought John Ward was one of the best announcers. We could hear the games (”It’s football time in Tennessee!”) on radio even down here in Texas.
Finishing strong, not having a defense that gives up basketball scores, and winning 59-0 against a 10-2 team in the conference championship game gets precedent.
Ohio State is going.
The Rose Bowl's intransigence was the reason for the problems that led to the BCS, which ended up solving nothing more than fixing the Rose Bowl problem.
I remember when Penn State went undefeated in 1994, and had to go the Rose Bowl to play the Ducks instead of playing the only other undefeated, which was Nebraska, who played 1 loss Miami in the Orange.
Similar problem in 1996, when FSU and Arizona State were the only undefeated teams but didn't play each other because of the Rose Bowl.
It was a fun time. Tennessee had 98 radio stations at the apex of radio football.
I hope they can get over the idiocy of their control mantra and let this school play ball again. They have fun when its allowed.
I miss John Ward on the Radio. The box announcer was Bobby Denton. He died earlier this year, he was in place from the 60’s.
Pathetic excuses. In what universe does it matter what time of the year the games were played in? They got their teeth kicked in.
OU losing today to Ok State, didn’t help the Big XII’s case.
Here is one change I would make that could go a long way towards fixing the system.
Each team in the Power 5 conferences should have two open dates for two opponents picked at random from the other Power 5 conferences, one home game, and one away game.
You could have the drawing a few months before the season starts so the schedules could be set. But that way, every team has to go on the road for a game outside of their region.
For example, Florida has not had to play a non-conference game outside of the State of Florida, since 1992!
I think that would go a long way towards settling a lot of the questions at the end of the season.
“And by putting the Buckeyes into one of the four slots, any ambiguity over picking the best team between the Frogs and Bears is eliminated. “
Not having a playoff hurt both Baylor and TCU. The Big Twelve should get busy and bring two more teams into its conference. Also, the Big Ten TV market is huge and a demographic that simply can’t be ignored.
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