:cool:

Plus winning in double OT. Weis' seat must be a fucking inferno.

Too bad Yale choked it away, would have been a good day in the state.

Love that UConn/Notre Dame is the leading story on ESPN.com. It's not like there are any rivalry games this weekend or anything...

That's not my Ohio State homerism talking either. Cal/Stanford is actually relevant this year. Should be hyping it, but they're not because the game's not on ESPN.

Also LOL at Fox Sports' website. Check this out...

http://tpww.net/forums/picture.php?a...&pictureid=930

I still cant get past how horrible Tate Forcier is. He went to the bench and cried after every turnover too. That guy deserves to be gang beaten by the whole Michigan team, Full Metal Jacket, rocks in socks style.

lol Jimmy Clausen got sucker punched by an angry Notre Dame fan outside a restaurant

come on now, if you're going to be mad at Notre Dame sucking, Clausen is one of the last people you should blame it on

as I said before

should have punched a defensive player

Dexter McCluster

Brady Quinn talking about how "horrible" it would be for Notre Dame to fire Charlie Weis.

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/1...embattled-Weis

this coming from the QB of the 1-9 Cleveland Browns

Alabamas getting it handed to them early by Auburn, 14-0.

So, Alabama loses and then its Florida/Texas 1-2 in the BCS. What happens if Florida loses to Alabama in the SEC Title Game? Texas would be #1 as long as they win their Title game, but then you've got 1 loss Alabama probably wanting a piece of the action but Undefeated TCU and Cincy possibly. The BCS certainly doesnt want Alabama to lose this game..

Its probably already set in stone for SEC champion vs Texas because of how all those different polls and data is done. BCS won't allow TCU to be a #1 or #2 in the current format unless its the post-BCS poll for symbolic purposes like Utah last year.

ah the giant clusterfuck that is the BCS

I'm glad U of A won but I just wanna give Kyle Williams a big hug.

Poor guy. :-(

Two midlevel SEC teams beat the ACC championship contenders today.

And Toby Gerhart proved he should be a Heisman finalist. What a game for him.

New York Daily News is reporting Weis fired from Notre Dame but won't announce it until after players meeting to see if ND should accept the offer to play in a low-tier bowl.

Weis expected to go back to the NFL as an offense coordinator with 6 teams interested.

If Bob Stoops or Urban Meyer wanted the job, this would be the ideal time to take it for both. Stoops is having a crappy year and Meyer is going to have a way different team next year with Tebow gone. Doubt either will take it. Probably going to go with Brian Kelly.

What took Notre Dame so long to fire him?

You'd think the game against Uconn would do it.

Some NFL team with a lousy offense will pick him up. That is his calling.

I don't think Notre Dame has ever fired anyone before the season ended (not including a bowl since that's post-season). Even Willingham got the chance to end the season, then got fired before a bowl.

Notre Dame needs to do what Miami U did for coaching and just give the new coach 3-4 years of development with no questions asked or else same thing is going to occur that occurred with the last 3 coaches. It might have hurt Miami U's reputation as a power for those few years but they got back to being really good this year.

ESPN terribly shaped this story to fit a more dramatic angle. The local reports made it pretty clear that Clausen was not attacked by a rabid football fan, but ESPN never changed their report by one of their own reporters.

Florida St. head coach Bobby Bowden will retire after 44 years after the team plays whatever bowl game they may be in
http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/1...fter-bowl-game

He may end up here in Jacksonville then. God knows our Offense is terrible.

I've been getting these texts and e-mails all day from ESPN, and I'm not even an FSU fan. WTF?

LOL, I bet Bowden must've really gotten after Zebrie Sanders for sitting around on that one play a night or two ago...

Oregon will smack Ohio St around in the Rose Bowl pretty bad...

Oreeeeeeeeeeeegon!!! So pumped that the Ducks are going to the Rose Bowl. A bit worried about the matchup with Ohio St, but I'm going to enjoy winning the Pac-10 for now.

Oregon hasn't seen anything like Ohio State's defense this season. Should be a good game.

Yeah really pumped for Oregon/Ohio St. Oregon is such a fun team to like. I do think they will beat Ohio State but it should be a great game. I totally expect Clemson to fall behind 2+ scores before halftime tomorrow. Whether they come out in the second half fist pumping like champs or if Ga Tech will just run all over them again is up to Dabo though

Would love to go to a Clemson/Cincy Orange Bowl. Cincinnati is pretty dirty though, would def blow them out. Otherwise Clemson is looking at another Chik fil-a bowl, or the Champ Sports Bowl ugh

I wanted CJ Spiller to win the Heisman so badly

Feel kinda grimy rooting for Bama but this is what it's come to. I would cream myself if the Sugar Bowl winds up being Florida/TCU.

This Cincy/Pitt game is incredible. Pitt up 31-10 at one point and now it's tied at 38. Come on UC

Yea, the Cincy/Pitt game is on par with the Oregon/Oregon St game Thursday night. Two incredible championship games. I hope the ACC, SEC, and Big 12 games deliver as well. Really nervous about Florida beating Bama. Really hoping the Gators can pull it out. I'd like to see Nebraska beat Texas in the Big 12 game. Don't really care about the Clemson/GaTech game, I'm just glad Virginia Tech isn't in the ACC title game with a chance to play at the Rose Bowl.

Holy fuck, Pitt scored a TD but botched the PAT. Only a 6 point game with 1:36 left. That's a lifetime in college, with the clock stopping each time the offense gets a 1st down.

oh shit @ missed PAT :o

I can't help but feel like Cincy is going to pull this out

wowwwwwwwwwww Pike :heart:

Wow

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah, Cincy scoring was especially obvious after the PAT fuckup, stuff like that will ultimately be what costs you the game 9 times out of 10.

Crazy game.</font>

Game of the year. No question. Feel awful for those Pitt kids though.

<font color=goldenrod>That holder is gonna be getting some dirty looks around campus.</font> :(

I'm in the library right now and there sounds like there's a riot forming outside.

Sick game

I hope Texas loses, but i want TCU to get in the National Championship game against Florida. And i want Alabama vs Texas.

Yea, that sums up what I hope happens.

Crazy Cincy-Pitt game, looked like Pitt would end up winning and be another BCS buster like they did with West Virginia a few years ago but Cincy came back huge.

Florida's rockin the white lids. Nice

I don't even mind Alabama that much anymore. Def take them over Florida every time. I am hoping for a big Nebraska upset too just to send this all to heck!

Can't get over how good the Cincy/Pitt game was.

Nick Saban is the only coach I've ever seen look at the camera during interviews.

Hope Mountain Cody sits on Tim Tebow

FUCK YES BEARCATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a inside source that says Stoops is taking the job

ESPN News literally did almost a 5 minute highlight of Alabama-Florida game and the 4th Quarter just started when it finished.

Longest non-title game highlight they have done for a regular season game in any sport I believe.

LOL part was how depressed the highlight sounded because Tebow and Florida was struggling.

Wow Florida's gonna lose. Not "crushed" as I kinda expected this. Plus I've been more invested in Oregon this year. So whatever.

The obligatory 736 Tebow shots per quarter aren't nearly as irritating when his team is getting stomped.

lolllllllllllllll Tebow can barely speak

Great stuff

goodbye Tbone

Let's go Huskers.

No one seems to have noticed that Texas has had a cakewalk of a schedule this year because the Big 12 is terrible. Texas has beaten 1 team that's currently ranked. The computers actually have Cincinnati ranked ahead of Texas in the BCS because Cincy's played a tougher schedule.

Not completely surprised that Florida could lose since they have been struggling against average to decent teams this year with a lot of lucky wins compared to last year's team.

Texas Losing = BCS CAMERA 6 WORST CASE SCENARIO !

I could honestly see the BCS breaking down and ending up with a Alabama/Florida rematch that would absolutely suck

Supposedly the way the teams are ranked and even though Cincy is rated higher than Texas in the computer polls, it wouldn't be that hard for the human polls or the weight of the Alabama quality win to boost Florida to #2. Realistically it won't happen but theoretically its possible since the human polls can still influence the title game.

Would suck badly since BCS tried as hard as possible to ensure no repeat games a few years ago when Michigan-OSU was near top of the polls and the game itself was good enough to be considered a possible repeat but the other conferences and voters complained.

Nebraska is about to pull off the upset..

wow

Aw man he kicks it out of bounds.

:rofl: wtf was Texas doing with that last play. 1 second left but could have been game over from how dumb the play was.

AWWWWWWWWWwww

blah..

Alabama will crush Texas

Bowl Pickem

Someone should set that up.

hook them horns

TCU is better than Texas I think

weird

<font color=goldenrod>UCONN :love:

So glad they got to end on a happy note</font>

Ending of the Texas game was weak as hell. Horse collar tackle than the replay with 1 second left, FUCK THAT

If TCU gets matched up with Penn State or Iowa, they might win by 40.

Bowl busters TCU and Boise State set to face each other in Fiesta Bowl and not anyone from the Big 4 (Big 10, Big 12, Pac-10, SEC).

Rose Bowl: Oregon vs Ohio State
Fiesta Bowl: Boise State vs TCU
Sugar Bowl: Cincinnati vs Florida
Orange Bowl: Iowa vs Georgia Tech
BCS Title: Texas vs Alabama

Even in the BCS Selection Show, they have to talk about fucking Notre Dame. Let's not talk about the kids who played their asses off to be the best in the country. No let's talk about shitty ass 6-6 Notre Dame

Normally I'd say its because Notre Dame has its own "contract" with the BCS along with the big 6 conferences but yes I agree. If Notre Dame refused to play a bowl, then they don't deserve to be talked about on the show. Leave that to ESPN with their 24/7 coverage.

<font color=goldenrod>Alabama vs. Texas sounds boring as hell. This was the BCS' chance to give a "non-traditional" team a chance in the big game and they went with the usual suspects. As good as TCU were this year I can't see them ever coming this close to the title game again.

Also feel terrible for Boise State. A consistently good program yet they can't get any of the "top schools" to agree to play them despite them waiving the right to have to play at Boise State.</font>

Wish they would flip Iowa & Boise.

Boise State vs TCU is retarded, they just played recently in a bowl game. Wanted to see something different

Computers had UC in the title game, voters had them fourth. Gotta love the unbiased system.

<font color=goldenrod>Pains me that the BCS isn't going to change anytime soon.</font>

Smooth how the BCS put TCU vs Boise St against eachother so they can avoid and future justification that one of them should get a National Championship bid. Instead of TCU beating someone like Florida and staking a claim that the system is unfair, they'll get to beat Boise St and prove nothing.

fuck the BCS

Mizzou gets passed over for a better bowl for the third straight year.

In 2007, Mizzou was 11-2 after losing to Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship Game. Then the Orange Bowl took 11-1 Kansas, who Mizzou had beaten TWO weeks earlier.

In 2008, Mizzou was the Big 12 North Champion and had beaten Nebraska head-to-head, but was passed over for the better bowl (at least this one is justifiable).

Now in 2009, Mizzou was 8-4, beat Iowa State in Week 10, but for whatever reason the Insight Bowl took 6-6 Iowa State instead. Now Mizzou is in the Texas Bowl.

On one hand, who cares? The money is the same (except travel expenses) and the Insight Bowl is a joke anyway, but it just goes to show that the system is flawed.

BCS needs to just go away for good. Why can't they adopt a system like the NCAA basketball does? Start with the 64 best teams, work down to 32, to 16, etc. etc. But no, some fat, overpaid dipshit who is part of some booster club at said well known school gets to decide who goes where. FUCK THAT NOISE. I'm a big Gator fan, but I honestly will say that TCU deserves a title shot over Texas. Texas got lucky as shit against Nebraska. Whatever though, it's all a flawed system anyways. Roll Tide Roll. Bring the SEC another title I guess.

Clausen and Tate are both gone from the Irish. They will be entering the NFL Draft. Not surprising

It's likely to do with the fact that there is no room for an additional six college football games, and the fact that a 64-team playoff would entirely ruin the significance of a regular season.

Four teams, aka plus-one, might work, unless there are five teams. Eight teams is too arbitrary.

The most logical and fair playoff, in my opinion, would be to take the 11 major conference champions and then five wildcards, with seeds based on BCS rankings. I've done this before on TPWW, so might as well do it again:

1. Alabama (SEC)
2. Texas (Big 12)
3. Cincinnati (Big East)
4. TCU (Mountain West)
5. Florida (Wildcard 1)
6. Boise State (WAC)
7. Oregon (Pacific-10)
8. Ohio State (Big Ten)
9. Georgia Tech (ACC)
10. Iowa (Wildcard 2)
11. Virginia Tech (Wildcard 3)
12. LSU (Wildcard 4)
13. Penn State (Wildcard 5)
14. Houston (C-USA)
15. Central Michigan (MAC)
16. Troy (Sun Belt)

Under this system, the biggest snub of 2009 would be No. 14 Brigham Young.

This also gives some significance to the smaller conferences. As it stands, there is no reason why the Sun Belt, MAC, C-USA, or WAC should be considered Division 1-A. Mountain West is at a severe disadvantage as well.

I personally think it would be a lot more fair to give every conference one entry than to arbitrarily pick the top eight teams and continue to reward the rich.

But again, this is obviously inconceivable due to time limits, which is why I think the Plus-One format would be the best (while also putting some significance back to the BCS bowl-ties)

I could work with that BCWWF.

I'm bored at work:

Round 1
1. Alabama (SEC)
16. Troy (Sun Belt)
Result: Alabama

8. Ohio State (Big Ten)
9. Georgia Tech (ACC)
Result: Georgia Tech
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4. TCU (Mountain West)
13. Penn State (Wildcard 5)
Result: Penn State

5. Florida (Wildcard 1)
12. LSU (Wildcard 4)
Result: Florida
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3. Cincinnati (Big East)
14. Houston (C-USA)
Result: Cincinnati

6. Boise State (WAC)
11. Virginia Tech (Wildcard 3)
Result: Boise State
----
7. Oregon (Pacific-10)
10. Iowa (Wildcard 2)
Result: Oregon

2. Texas (Big 12)
15. Central Michigan (MAC)
Result: Texas
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Round 2
1 Alabama
9 Georgia Tech
Result: Alabama

13 Penn State
5 Florida
Result: Florida
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3 Cincinnati
6 Boise State
Result: Boise State

7 Oregon
2 Texas
Result: Texas
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Round 3
1 Alabama
5 Florida
Result: Florida
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6 Boise State
2 Texas
Result: Texas
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Championship
5 Florida
2 Texas
Result: I am so glad it did not come down to this!

<font color=goldenrod>I like that idea BCWWF.

Only thing - I'd like to see the five wildcards automatically slotted in at 12-16 depending on BCS standings...I dunno, kinda like how in other sports the weaker division winners get better seeds than the Wild Card teams.</font>

House branch of Congress passes NCAA Football Playoff bill out of the comittees and should be debated/voted on soon by the rest of the House and Congress. If it becomes a law, BCS could either be in trouble for breaking anti-Trust laws if Justice Department investigates or make it illegal to promote a national title game without a playoff.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4727426

That's stupid and ridiculous. There is no reason why a league has to have a playoff to determine the winner.

I don't believe the bill would state you can't declare a champion without a playoff but you can't be promoting a championship when its based on votes and not merit or on the idea of every game is important.

The bigger issue is how much a mess the BCS is since before being undefeated guaranteed a spot and now its 1 spot given automatically to the SEC and then the other is split between the Big 10, Big 12, or USC. If they didn't keep changing how the title game occurs, they probably don't have to worry about Congress getting involved if it passes and it probably won't unless the Justice Department gets involved.

Brian Kelly you stupid faggot

<font color=goldenrod>He's not even going to coach the Sugar Bowl. Wow.

Reading the articles, the Cincy players are pissed the fuck off...and deservedly so.

Just makes me hate Notre Dame even more.</font>

He must hate BCS Bowls. He just gave up his last chance to coach in one.

lol

Wow, I hope the Cincy fans make his last days there miserable for him walking out on them to be the coach of the piss poor "Fightin' Irish." Fuck Notre Dame, nobody cares about them anymore.

Lou Holtz would like to have a word with you

:-\

How can you blame Brian Kelly? Cincinnati is never going to have another season this good, and even if they do they will still be snubbed for a national title spot by a Big Ten, Big 12, SEC team or USC.

I'm sure he is also getting a substantial raise. And it's not like Notre Dame can't compete. I mean, 06 and 07 they were in a BCS bowl. Even this year they had one of the best offenses in the nation. It is complete bullshit when people claim Notre Dame can't get the top recruits anymore for academic reasons.

<font color=goldenrod>I think it's a dick move because he's bailing on his team before the Sugar Bowl. Leaving for Notre Dame is one thing, but leaving before your team plays in its Bowl game is crap.

It might not even be his fault...but if Notre Dame said "Accept the offer now or you're out of the running," then shame on them.</font>

I haven't seen the details (are they public yet?), but these type of things seem like they are often 50/50. Sometimes the coach stays on to finish what he started, sometimes he leaves so as to not be a distraction.

Personally, I guess I can see how it might be awkward for Cincinnati to have Notre Dame's coach during the Sugar Bowl.

He left now so he could recruit. Honestly the only reason I'm angry about this is because of the media. Stuff like this happens all the time. In fact, Kelly did this to Central Michigan when he went to Cincy. But that doesn't make it less shitty.