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NCAA Football National Semifinals thread: Oklahoma at Clemson; Michigan St at Alabama

Posted on 12/31/2015 10:37:15 AM PST by Perdogg

4pm EST - Orange Bowl Miami FL: Oklahoma v Clemson (+4) o/u 64.5. TV ESPN; WatchESPN App, DT 206. Weather 83 degrees - RF 88.

8pm EST - Cotton Bowl Arlington TX: Michigan St v Alabama (-9.5) o/u 45. TV ESPN; WatchESPN App, DT 206. Weather - Indoors.


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To: for-q-clinton

(Heh, the schadenfreude is strong here, the Normanites will take it out on the Texans, and I’m outta here .... )


21 posted on 12/31/2015 11:17:51 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: for-q-clinton

Public schooled, huh?


22 posted on 12/31/2015 11:22:35 AM PST by Original Lurker
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To: Perdogg; Bender2

Has TCU got a decent back-up QB for saturdays game vs the Ducks? Boykin is suspended.


23 posted on 12/31/2015 11:23:46 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Perdogg

Roll Tide Roll!!!!


24 posted on 12/31/2015 11:40:59 AM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Rennes Templar

No one is ever happy. Cried about that BCS. It was the most fair but no that wasn’t good enough.


25 posted on 12/31/2015 11:43:44 AM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: for-q-clinton

Bama will roll. GFY.


26 posted on 12/31/2015 11:45:01 AM PST by ohioman
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To: for-q-clinton

***This way the conference know that they have a playoff at the end and have to have a single team at the top.***

And that single team at the top in the SEC was Alabama! So by your logic, Alabama is exactly where they should be. That would also mean Notre Dame would go every year, which is ludicrous.

Face it. Everyone thought the BCS was biased because there were so many SEC teams at the top and winning National championships. Now there are still more SEC teams at the top. The SEC is just better. Sorry if folks can’t handle that.

And ESPN hates the SEC and everyone whose honest knows it. And Alabama is at the top of the list.


27 posted on 12/31/2015 11:55:17 AM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Perdogg

My niece is a Michigan Stae alumna. Go Spartans!


28 posted on 12/31/2015 12:02:17 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Perdogg

My niece is a Michigan State alumna. Go Spartans!


29 posted on 12/31/2015 12:02:27 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Rennes Templar

We had 5-6 teams making bowl games.

I know, let’s have more of them!


30 posted on 12/31/2015 12:03:12 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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31 posted on 12/31/2015 12:10:36 PM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Rennes Templar

A lot of schools actually lose money going to these meaningless bowl games.


32 posted on 12/31/2015 12:11:45 PM PST by dfwgator
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33 posted on 12/31/2015 12:14:31 PM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Lil Flower

I thought the purpose of the BCS was to assure that the top two teams played each other at the end of the season. Yes, the top two in the polls, but pre-BCS it wasn’t always assured that such would be the case. At least the BCS achieved that. The playoff format is better, IMO, and maybe it could be expanded to eight teams, but given the schedules and the extra time involved, I don’t see it going beyond that. Football isn’t basketball in terms of preparation and scheduling.


34 posted on 12/31/2015 12:19:12 PM PST by chimera
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To: chimera

Let’s say the playoffs get expanded to 8 or 16 teams.....Then what happens if the quarterback on the “best team” just so happens to get hurt in the round of 8 or 16, now that team doesn’t even get the chance to make the semi-finals.

If you do expand the playoff field, there definitely needs to be byes in place.


35 posted on 12/31/2015 12:22:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Perdogg

WHOO HOO!!!!

BOOMER!

I hear a receiver for Clemson is out, not their best one, but maybe a bencher. Pot charges.

TCU quarterback out for tomorrow’s game. Arrested, drunk at a bar, and released this morning. Hit a cop.


36 posted on 12/31/2015 12:32:37 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: optiguy

SOONER!


37 posted on 12/31/2015 12:33:12 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: chimera; dfwgator
It all comes down to this:

Of all the major sports, football is the one that functions worst in a playoff system because the season isn't long enough to eliminate imbalances in strength of schedule. College football is worse than the NFL because there are more teams, more conferences, etc. quite simply, college football was never really designed to have a single "national champion" that is crowned based on their performance on the field.

38 posted on 12/31/2015 1:03:12 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: for-q-clinton

I’ve been in both states a LOT (truck driver). People are people. I once had a fork truck operator load my truck in Dayton that could have less teeth than the ones in your pic.

I have ‘kin’ that are graduates of ‘Bama’. Smart, God fearing people, successful in their careers, AND really nice.

Between you (and your choice with the stereotypical pic in #14), and RB Elliot (waaaa), I’m getting a different (but maybe unfair) opinion of OS. Pulling for ND used to be unthinkable.........

Happy New Year!


39 posted on 12/31/2015 1:12:57 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: RitaOK; kjam22

Touchdown OU!


40 posted on 12/31/2015 1:16:16 PM PST by optiguy ("They've got us surrounded. Poor bastards."--- New saying by democrats in congress.)
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