I am not sure Napoleon was ever really himself after the Russian campaign. What he expected after his victory at Borodino and what really turned out was very different. Expecting the Russians to surrender only having them chase him all the way back to France may have put some doubt in his mind. Maybe that doubt is what affected his decisions at a place like Waterloo. I know in sports that if you loose your confidence it can be hard to get back. I imagine the same could be said about war generals. Just a thought. Enjoyed the post.
BCS National Championship
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War Eagle y’all
Wife’s family all went to AU so I don’t get to chose. Closest I’ve ever been to Alabama was actually closer to Tallahasee, the airport in Atlanta :-P
I’ve got bigger football issues right now like how are my Philadelphia Eagles going to control Drew Brees?
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War Eagle y’allÂ
Wife’s family all went to AU so I don’t get to chose. Closest I’ve ever been to Alabama was actually closer to Tallahasee, the airport in Atlanta :-P
I’ve got bigger football issues right now like how are my Philadelphia Eagles going to control Drew Brees?
Pretend they are the Raiders…
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I’m surprised the point spread has grown since my last post, Auburn getting ten points is pretty good value, for those who have the means to bet an IPC or two.
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I don’t think Alabama’s loss against Oklahoma did anything to help Auburn. I love Stoops because he’s from around where I grew up, but Oklahoma really hadn’t been relevant since the Statue of Liberty play…and that was the down fall…maybe AP on the sideline helped out a little. While I would love to see the SEC suck it this year, I have to think that Auburn is the team of destiny. Alabama may have been overrated this year much like my Buckeyes, but I at least knew that…most people were believing in the SEC machine to do work.
I have to side on the fact that the ACC is an inferior football conference. Their 1st half performance against Duke should warrant a lot of caution for FSU fans. Ok, you can point to Duke’s bowl performance as a good thing, but that’s a bad team getting a great jump…give Auburn to get the same jump Duke had on both games, and they will not give that lead up. If this game lives up to it, this may have been the best set of BCS bowls ever. Curious to see how the playoff changes things up.
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There’s the quick start as mentioned. 14-3….and the only way FSU has been able to move the ball is on a roughing the kicker penalty?!?!? Time to go back to an all girl’s school! (it’s already a girly school as it is).
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Shi%£y football weekend all around.
At least I’m not a Chiefs fan.
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Shi%�y football weekend all around.
At least I’m not a Chiefs fan.
My brother in law is a Chiefs fan, that game disheartened him.
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I was very upset with the “run the ball up the middle” playcalling….was eating humble pie till the wife came home from the thrift shop with a good condition Stratego for $2.50!
I do owe a can of pop now for this game…thank goodness for hockey and conference play for college basketball!
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I will miss College Football! :-(
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Not how they drew it up, but the Noles did overcome plenty of adversity. For all the big plays and drives in the 4th quarter, the fake punt called by Jimbo Fisher before the end of the half was huge. Would have been hard to rally the locker room down 21-3 as opposed to 21-10.
Still an amazing run from Auburn after starting the season in complete anonymity.
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They said on Good Morning America that next years National Champion will be decided by a 4 team playoff. Is this news to anyone else?
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They said on Good Morning America that next years National Champion will be decided by a 4 team playoff. Is this news to anyone else?
It isn’t to me.
But it will probably be Bama if SEC Champ, SEC Champ and Bama (if not SEC champ,) and 2 or 3 (depending on Bama) of PAC-12 Champ, B1G Champ, ACC Champ, BIG12 Champ or undefeated Notre Dame. Probably two SEC teams no matter what since to some people it seems to make sense to give a shot at the title to teams that don’t win their own conference. Hopefully it will be four conference champions and not two or three SEC teams but I won’t hold my breath.
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Yea, a four team playoff is what people have wanted for a long time. BCS honks have always believed that the current system in place works. This year it did but in past years there have been many questions as to who belongs in the championship game. A four team playoff eliminates any question as to who should be in the title game.
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last year was the worst Alabama just rolled over Notre Dame the game was over after the first quarter. I personally think it should be an 8 team playoff but given that there are playoffs at all I guess is a win.
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Yea, a four team playoff is what people have wanted for a long time. BCS honks have always believed that the current system in place works. This year it did but in past years there have been many questions as to who belongs in the championship game. A four team playoff eliminates any question as to who should be in the title game.
Not really. It just makes more questions because more teams are going to be good enough to be number 4. The guys in charge of the thing said so. And it seems this is also at the behest of the SEC.
So why did it take us so long to get to this?
SEC commissioner Mike Slive started thinking about a four-team playoff in 2004 when Auburn went undefeated, won the SEC championship but got shut out of the BCS title game in favor of Oklahoma and Southern California.
“I just felt that there should be a place in the postseason structure for an undefeated or one-loss champion from our conference,” Slive said. “So over the long haul, it became clear to me that expanding the structure was going to serve us better.”
Everyone calls the BCS a “mythical” national championship but forget that it had always been mythical before. The BCS simply created a structure where number one could play number two. With the new playoff format unless they take four conference champs it will be more political and more mythical than ever.
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Yea, a four team playoff is what people have wanted for a long time. BCS honks have always believed that the current system in place works. This year it did but in past years there have been many questions as to who belongs in the championship game. A four team playoff eliminates any question as to who should be in the title game.
Not really. It just makes more questions because more teams are going to be good enough to be number 4. The guys in charge of the thing said so.
Yeah look at how many wild card teams win the superbowl. it’s why I say 8 team.
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It will be eight teams soon enough. Some one loss conference champ gets rolled after a one loss not conference champ Bama or LSU or whichever SEC team can’t get it done but has been touted at the best all season got passed over for that slot and the hew and cry for eight teams will be deafening.
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The biggest hurdle to a playoff was politics from the big bowls, especially the Rose, who saw it as a threat to their prestige and exclusivity. Keep in mind the more you expand the playoff format the harder it gets to sell tickets to earlier rounds. It’s not as easy as grouping teams into regions for the hoops tournament in March.
Speaking of basketball, you don’t want to dilute the regular season in football like the current 68 team format has done to basketball. Unless you’re a diehard, most of the regular season, up until mid-conference play, is meaningless. I think eight is perfectly fine though.
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I thought if they rotated which bowl got the championship game and the other bowls got different spots in the playoffs. one year the rose and cotton bowls would be the semi-final round and the orange gets the championship game. In an 8 team playoff fiesta would be in the first round. the next year orange would get a first round and the rose would get the championship game and it would rotate every year.
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I believe that’s correct, i think it took a lot of prodding just to start with a four team playoff. If the semifinal games are big successes, it shouldn’t be too hard to expand to eight. The big issue is the schools playing need to have loyal fanbases willing to travel to two potential games.
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