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Here at Prayers For Blowouts we love to let our members spout off their opinions on anything and everything.
Recently we asked them to tell us their thoughts on President-Elect Barack Obama pushing for a College Football Playoff. (note: these responses were submitted before Texas got the shaft for the Big 12 Title Game by the BCS and the Big 12 Tiebreaker rules. That explains why Isaac Ll. was coherent enough to formulate an articulate response.)
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If Obama can outlaw the stinking BCS, he’ll have the everlasting adoration of every college football fan in the nation.
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It’s nice that the Pres-elect wants a college play-off, but unless he’s going to open Fort Knox and kick in the ridiculous amount of money it would take for the powers that be to give us one, it ain’t gon’ happen.
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More power to Barack if he can get a playoff system going for CFB…however…as much as I LOVE CFB I would urge that he tackle some of the bigger problems facing the nation first and foremost. But also the problem arises of how those 8 teams for the playoff would be selected. So that’ll have to be worked out too. But, I am ALL FOR IT! w00t!
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I think Obama has much bigger fish to fry while he is president. There is no need to interfere with college sports when there is the economy and two wars abroad to deal with.
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If Barack Obama can somehow push through a college football playoff system and get rid of the BCS, it will do more to establish his legacy than anything else short of complete world peace or his unmasking as the Antichrist. And it would more than completely justify my vote for him back on November 4th. I’m only partly joking.
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I find it humorous that the BCS folks felt it to be necessary to actually respond via an official press release to President-Elect Obama’s remarks regarding the potentiality of a college football playoff. It simply shows that the BCS is so hyper-sensitive to how people are clamoring for such a system that they had to issue a statement regarding a politician’s answer to a softball question in a televised interview. In short: BCS = Money-Grubbing Corporate Whores.
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I think its sad that college football’s post-season is so messed up that the president elect takes the time to explain how he would fix it. This is probably the last we’ll hear Obama talk about it because for the next four years he has his hands full.
No real opinion. I don’t like college football because of the BCS, but I also don’t think it’s the role of the President to get involved in such things.
My first thought was……doesn’t he have better things to worry about. But with the atrocity that is the BCS, I’m glad someone of influence finally weighed in on the subject and maybe we can finally have a true national champion.
Matt S., a die-hard Cardinals fan who couldn’t stand the fact that Cubs fans outnumber everyone else here decided to take matters in to his own hands and sign up. Welcome to the team, Matt. Love the angry face!
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December 1st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Thanks for clarifying that stance for me Bryan. So yes, i am a bit upset…but I am upset at the Big 12 having to rely solely on the BCS standings for the 5th tie breaker. In any of the other big six conf…Texas would have won the won the tie-breaker. There are still a few things that could happen where Texas can benefit, but I hate that the Longhorns will be idle this week and our cards will fall depending on the Big 12 and SEC championship games.
Bahumbug!
if only Baylor could have held on to that lead they held over TxTech!!! DAGGER!
December 1st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Either way, someone was going to get screwed in the Big 12.
If it wasn’t Texas getting screwed it would have been Texas Tech, which beat Texas.
Why isn’t Texas Tech in the national title hunt again when their only loss was to Oklahoma?
December 1st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Texas Tech isn’t getting any consideration for two reasons: 1) the late season loss, and 2) the loss was embarrassing. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that “when” you lose can almost be more important than “who” you lose to - i.e. OU getting the nod over Texas, even though Texas beat them, their loss was earlier in the season - voters had a chance to “get over it,” if you will. If Tech had only lost by a touchdown, they would be in the conversation. Unfortunately, by getting blown out, they took themselves out of it.
December 5th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Exactly.
Texas Tech is out of the conversation because of when and how they lost. They lost big to Oklahoma more recently than Oklahoma lost in a close game to Texas.
Oklahoma is ahead of Texas because they beat Oklahoma State in the same week that Texas beat Texas A&M. Oklahoma man-handled a far superior Oklahoma State team so they get the nod.
Like a lot of things in college football, exterior factors (in this case, scheduling) have more to do with who ends up in contention than the so-called every-game-means-something logic BCS apologists like to use.
The unfortunate thing is that so much is decided before the season starts based solely on a team’s schedule and their preseason ranking.