Floor-i-duh is playing another powerhouse this weekend...Go Troy!

[joeybee12]

Gotta love the SEC, play high school teams when they don't play teams within their own vastly over-rated league. The only reason we don't have a play-off system is the SEC mafia won't let us beacuse then everyone would know what a joke it is.

[madinmaryland]

1. Aren't you an alum of one of those cupcakes? Is it Fairfield University,

Sacred Heart, or University of Hartford??

:shrug:

[joeybee12]

3. America's Team!!!!!

[El Supremo]

7. God's Team.

If you are Catholic.

[madinmaryland]

14. I didn't know the Flying Spaghetti Monster liked football.

:shrug:

[madinmaryland]

9. The Dallas Cowboys are not a college team. Try again.

So you are really a fan of a 3-9 team, that has for years shunned a conference driving itself into irrelevance?

They are truly and have been for many years the most overrated college team in the nation.

Sorry to hear that!

[joeybee12]

11. Sorry, I meant to say the Cowpies are a high school team...

...I apologize.

[TZ]

2. .

:popcorn:
I was thinking madinmaryland was the biggest shitstirrer in here now. I was wrong...:rofl:

[joeybee12]

4. I coulda told you you were wrong...

...your avatars give you away!

[TZ]

5. Hey man

at least I'm not an alum of the world's most ovverated football team. Notre Dame...The sucky irish....

[joeybee12]

10. Foreclosed on any widows lately, snyder? n/t

[madinmaryland]

13. HEY! That's my line, Belicheck!

[TZ]

24. Go Rangers!

:P

[madinmaryland]

12. Yeah. The Irish are the MOST overrated college team. PERIOD!

Funnily, they have driven themselves into irrelevance by shunning the other conferences. It's funny to see them as cupcakes to the larger conferences!!

[Jo March]

15. The Fighting Amish!

That's what I call 'em anyway.

:rofl:

[joeybee12]

19. Wasn't Bear Bryant the guy...

who NEVER beat Notre Dame????????

[Jo March]

25. You mean this Bear Bryant?

* 6 National Championships
* 13 Conference Championships
* Ten-time Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year
* Three-time National Coach of the Year in 1961, 1971 and 1973.The national coach of the year award was subsequently named the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in his honor.
* Was named Head Coach of Sports Illustrated's NCAA Football All-Century Team.
* He received 1.5 votes for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination at the extremely contentious 1968 Democratic Convention

[joeybee12]

29. Um, he doesn't have six national titles...

...I don't know why every bama fan wants to perpetuate that myth.

[JonLP24]

32. What is incorrect?

He won six national championships- 1961,1964,1965,1973,1978,1979.

http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=70009

[joeybee12]

33. Hmmm...1973, the year they lost to Notre Dame...

YEAH, that counts.

[JonLP24]

34. Now I see your point

I went to a non-Alabama source to find out how many Championships Bryant has so I didn't understand it at first. Notre Dame beat Alabama in a close game at the Sugar Bowl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_college_football_season

:hi:

[joeybee12]

35. You can find a source that shows three national champs some years...

...and even right before the BCS there were chances of shared national championships (which are called mythical) because two polls could produce two different reulst...in 1978 AP chose Alabama, UP chose USC, even though USC THRASHED Bama AT Bama during the regular season...the whole system has always beena crapshoot. There was talk of Florida State and Norte dame splitting in 1993, but didn't happen because the voters were aching to give Saint Bobby the title, even though Notre Dame beat FSU.

[Jo March]

54. Okay, let's say he only has 5 national titles

Would I, as a fan, trade those for him to have beaten ND?

Not likely.

:rofl:

[JonLP24]

6. Troy actually isn't a bad team

They are not at the level of Florida but to call them a high school team isn't right. They have a successful record with longtime head coach, Steve Blankeney and lost by 3 points in a very good bowl game against Southern Miss. Also they have a consecutive winning season streak that without looking up I don't know, but they have 8 wins in each of the last 3 seasons as well as 3 Sun Belt Championships. Troy is my favorite team out of the Sun Belt but they may not beat Florida but don't disrespect Troy.

[joeybee12]

8. It was more of a slam against Floor-i-duh...

...their schedule is lame.

[Jo March]

17. It's almost as though they are trying to keep Tebow safe for the NFL

Gotta keep him healthy so he can go in the first round of the draft next year. :eyes:

[joeybee12]

22. Yeah, he's such a swelll guy...

...he makes me sick, but he makes the announcers all giggly!

[Jo March]

26. They swoon over him and Meyer

It is a bit disgusting, yes.

Tebow will not be successful as a quarterback in the NFL.

[joeybee12]

31. well, what he really wants to do is prostelytize...

and with his body, he could make some serious change. :evilgrin:

[Jo March]

16. I love Troy's football team

I have a soft spot in my heart for them. They play good football down there.

Florida will probably run over them in the end, but I expect them to put up some fight.

[Jo March]

18. Didn't the SEC want a playoff? Thought I read it somewhere...

Of course, the SEC has their own playoff of sorts, the SEC Championship game. I'm glad that our conference does that. At least that proves who is the best in the conference.

[Gator_Matt]

20. The SEC is a joke?

Perhaps you were referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission? :D

The SEC has won the past 3 BCS Championship games and is 5 for 5 in BCS Championship games. As for Florida, they consistently have one of the toughest schedules in the nation as determined via an accepted 3rd party ranking system. Their schedule this year is "weak," yet they still scheduled 3 preseason top 25 teams and would have to face another top 25 team in the SEC championship.

Florida has been a big proponent of a college football playoff, beginning when Spurrier was the coach. More recently, University of Florida president Bernie Machen has lobbied for a playoff. If you would bother to do some research, you would quickly discover that it is the Big 10 commissioner who is the biggest opponent of a playoff. Judging from his league's recent mediocrity, I can understand why!

Go Gators!

[joeybee12]

21. The BCS is a joke...LSu with 2 losses gets in...Fla loses at home

to MSU and isn't penalized...they play with themselves and their non-conference games are jokes, so the myth that they are a decent conference is circular logic, since they never venture out into the real workld.

Good luck on getting another undeserved title this year.

[madinmaryland]

23. Heh! What got you pissed is that the BCS only offers bids to teams in conferences

except for a couple of at large bids. Fortunately, ND has relegated itself irrelevance, so they really are not a player in the whole BCS thingie!

[Jo March]

27. What about the Pac-10?

USC carries that conference every year and then USC usually loses to some unranked, no-name team. But I still have to hear about the great Pac-10 and how "USC is the best one-loss team in the nation and should play for a national championship."

Or Ohio State who has been beaten, what, twice in the NC game?? Overrated.

[JonLP24]

28. Oregon State nearly won the conference last year

The other two losses was to Stanford by a last second touchdown and the time before that was to UCLA which is a rivalry game for them and also helped Florida make the Championship in '07. I'm not like others here who will say SEC doesn't deserve the recognition they deserve but the Pac-10 pushes about 3 really good teams each year and 2 and sometimes 3 pretty good teams. It's hard to win the Pac-10 because everyone is beating each other and USC beats everyone most of the time so it's hard to compete on a one loss basis because of fewest conference losses wins them the title.

[Jo March]

40. You could say the same thing about the SEC

"It's hard to win the Pac-10 because everyone is beating each other and USC beats everyone most of the time so it's hard to compete on a one loss basis because of fewest conference losses wins them the title."

The SEC tends to field 3 or 4 good teams and a couple of okay teams and some stinkers (Mississippi State, I'm looking at you.)

Florida lost to Ole Miss last year by 1 point at home. Ole Miss was not ranked. The case could be made that they shouldn't play for the NC but the same case could be made that USC shouldn't play for it, either, after their loss.

[JonLP24]

44. Which USC didn't

I wasn't one of their 'pushers' last year. I think Florida earned it by beating top-ranked Alabama and I actually favored Texas Tech over Texas and Oklahoma despite the blow out. What I really thought was even though Alabama lost and the one loss Florida, Okahoma, the Texas teams, and even undefeated Utah, CF needed an 8-team playoff to determine the true champion. I think the BCS is a good system to rank teams but picking only 2 slots is too inclusive.

What I'm rooting for this year except for the obvious fact I want Arizona St to go all the way is someone from the Pac 10, SEC, ACC, Big 12, MWC, WAC, MAC, and Conference USA to have a team go undefeated so next year they will have no choice but to have a playoff. I know it's far-fetched but I'll be happy with 4-6 teams going undefeated.

[Jo March]

45. If 4-6 teams go undefeated, it will be NUTS

I want that 8-team playoff. I doubt that we'll get that any time soon.

The Texas Tech, Texas, and Oklahoma situation last year just highlights the need for a playoff. That was the most pathetic wrangling that I've ever seen.

[joeybee12]

46. Agreed! An 8 team playoff is so easy to set up it's not funny...

...it always was a crap shoot with the AP voting, but the BCS has just made it worse...every year there has been confusion and controversy. At least with the AP way you usually got the 2 best teams to play one another.

[Jo March]

55. I hate the BCS

I always hope for the most confusion so that more and more people see how loony it is.

[Broken_Hero]

57. Ditto, big fucking ditto on that

I pray to jeebus that the BCS gets more messed up every year, and recently...the past 4yrs or so, each season has been a LOT more muddy....

Especially with so called "weaker" teams beating so called "strong" teams, like Boise ST over OU, Utah over Bama last year, but what I've enjoyed the most is all these so called "strong" conferences spinning just how strong their conference is...

SEC talking smack about Big 12, and vice versa, and all these teams with either no losses, or 1(sometimes 2!) and all the media wrangling about the rankings...its chaos, and I love it. I love watching college football, but until a playoff is implemented the whole shebang is a joke.

I would love to see USC go against Florida, or Texas, or OU, or Ohio St, or and vice versa...my mind set is prove it, prove how tough your team is. I value coaches who play strong out of conference games, like the USC/OSU game this past Saturday, at least they had to guts to put it on the line instead of playing a weak OOC game, hell I think the past few years North Texas had the best OOC games, granted they got their asses beat, but they tried.

I would love to root for a NC team, but because of the BCS/Ranking bullshit, I just hope/pray that these big name schools just lose so it becomes so glaringly obvious a play off system is used. I'm a big OU hater, but I root for all the big name teams to lose, I just hate OU the most, :) If a play off was implemented I'd actually choose a fave team.

[joeybee12]

30. They lost a close game to a very good OSU team last year...

....away, but Florida at home against a really bad team doesn't count. PLAYOFFS!!!!!

[Jo March]

39. Oh, I agree about the playoffs, Joey

I wouldn't mind a field of 8. It is doable.

Too bad some conferences don't want to give up their crappy BCS.

Settle it on the field!!!

[Capt. America]

36. Its not that the Baiters play weak cupcakes in NC games, everyone does that, the

thing I don't like about Florida (and apparently the Kiffin Fightin' Ts) is that they feel the need to roll up 60 points on a cupcake team.

[Jo March]

41. Amen. That is disgusting but it stems from the stupid BCS "margin of victory"

A team has to demolish another team especially if that team is a cupcake.

It's not good sportsmanship in my opinion. I like to see the second and third string come in and play when a victory has already been determined by the 2nd quarter.

And Lame Kitten wanted to make a point: TN is back, baby!! :puke:

[PVnRT]

58. The margin only counts to 21 points, if I remember correctly

They implemented that rule because of Florida and Spurrier, though.

[Jo March]

59. I didn't know that. That is pretty interesting.

I think if your team is up 21 points over a cupcake, then you should take out all of your first-stringers and put in your second- and third-string players. It just makes sense and is more sportsmanlike.

[PVnRT]

60. Now I'm not so sure

Sagarin's rankings sound a lot like they factor in the straight margin of victory.

The main problem with the BCS is that it's just an average of a bunch of polls; they need to just come up with their own algorithm and be done with it.

[Jo March]

61. If the BCS thought that factoring in the GDP of the Ukraine would boost ratings

they'd use that.

Freaking BCS.

[Condem]

37. Sorry to inform.

If I had to play an SEC schedule. My non-conference would be cupcakes, too.

[Jo March]

42. Yep. If you have to run the gauntlet, why make it worse?

Schedule some non-conference cupcakes and give your second and third stringers a chance to get on the field and get some game time.

[Capt. America]

38. Oh, an FYI to Baiter fans, in case you forgot, Tebow/Jesus LOST to Meeshigan in 2008! 41-35

[trumad]

43. Yeah---at one time they played the Hurricanes every year...

Florida State, Miami and the Gators..

Back in the early eighties the Gators replaced the canes on their schedule with Montana State----claiming they were losing revenue by scheduling Miami....LOL

Real reason----they were getting their asses whooped by the Canes year in year out. Same with Notre Dame---they played Miami often but begged out after Miami became a powerhouse....

[Awsi Dooger]

47. Actually it was late '80s

Miami and Florida played annually through 1987. The Gators dropped Miami and claimed they wanted to pursue an aggressive intersectional schedule, with major home and home matchups. :rofl:

At the time the SEC was merely another conference. That's what makes the current SEC is Too Tough excuse so laughable. The SEC had not had a national champ since Georgia in 1980 and the top SEC team generally finished no higher than 4th or 5th in the final polls for the remainder of the '80s. Florida ran when it was convenient.

They'll never be anything but wimps to me, as long as the series is not played annually.

[trumad]

49. Thanks Awsi--- my fallback historian of everything Miami

...Chicken Gators...

[two gun sid]

62. I was at the Orange Bowl in 1987....

for the final UM game with the gators. Kerwin Bell? Kermit Bell? and Emmitt Smith. Florida punked out on the UM-Florida rivalry. It should have been a great game for the entire state of Florida but the gators fucked that all up.

[Scurrilous]

48. Pad your stats day...

...3rd quarter Florida 42 Troy 3. Tebow already has 4 TD passes (1 rush). My daughter texted me from the game and said she's bored. LOL

[Scurrilous]

50. Florida defeats mighty Troy 56-6!!1!

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recap?gid=200909120067


I think I'll celebrate by reading my favorite blog while sipping on warm gatorade.

[Jo March]

56. Hey, you can hear Tim's dad speak!

I just don't know. (shakes head)

[BOSSHOG]

51. Joey urge Notre Dame to join the SEC

[PVnRT]

52. 38-34!

[GaYellowDawg]

53. Really?

Overrated? You mean the conference that's won 3 of the last 4 national championships? Play high school teams OOC? Like Oklahoma State (highly ranked even if they did lose to Houston) and Virginia Tech the first week, and UCLA this week?

No doubt Florida's got a really shitty schedule this year. As much as it pains me to say it, though, they would beat Notre Dame by about 50. Notre Dame would finish no better than 4th in either division of the SEC this year. And don't get on me about our series: Notre Dame has never beaten Georgia.