College Football - Championship Week

[imb]

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ou defensive tackles adrian taylor and gerald mccoy at the sooners basketball game last night

[Mephistopheles]

I went and bought a 45-35 shirt today.

[SouthSideRyan]

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ou defensive tackles adrian taylor and gerald mccoy at the sooners basketball game last night

 

Charged with possession of what???

[imb]

I went and bought a 45-35 shirt today.

 

did you get a big 12 south second place finishers t shirt too

[imb]

did you buy a fiesta bowl program

[Mephistopheles]

Alright guys. Post your predictions of the score for the Big XII title game and the SEC title game. All posters who post in CFB threads should do this. JUST DO IT!

 

Itll be fun. PRIZES WILL BE COMING

[rchap24]

I went and bought a 45-35 shirt today.

 

Both teams should play in the Big 12 championship game...Missouri doesn't deserve it and it would be the only fair shot at who plays in the title game against the SEC winner. Then you guys wouldn't be able to make arguments about who beat who...Just change that stupid rule and let them play again instead of Mizzou no offense Mizzou fans

[Derwood]

Florida 31 - Alabama 17

 

Oklahoma 55 - Missouri 28

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Florida 31-7

 

Oklahoma 49-31

[B]

http://i34.tinypic.com/2ce42za.jpg

 

ou defensive tackles adrian taylor and gerald mccoy at the sooners basketball game last night

Why is he doing the "Hook em Horns" sign?

[SouthSideRyan]

I went and bought a 45-35 shirt today.

 

did you get a big 12 south second place finishers t shirt too

 

After you guys won the tiebreaker to take first, wouldn't 2nd place tiebreaker revert to head to head? Meaning Texas took 3rd place in the Big 12 South. Top 50%!

[rchap24]

http://i34.tinypic.com/2ce42za.jpg

 

ou defensive tackles adrian taylor and gerald mccoy at the sooners basketball game last night

Why is he doing the "Hook em Horns" sign?

 

To mock them?

[SouthSideRyan]

Florida: 41

Bama: 17

 

OU: 45

Mizzou: 31

[snoodmonger]

UF 28 - Bama 21

OU 52 - MU 21

[Guest]

Florida - 38

Alabama - 21

 

Oklahoma - 52

Mizzou - 24

 

No predictions for the thriller tomorrow afternoon in Pasadena???

[SouthSideRyan]

USC: 38

UCLA: 10

[Butterscup1679666578]

Haha, did anyone see this on UT's "Campus Watch" page?

 

DKR- TEXAS MEMORIAL STADIUM, 2200 Robert Dedman

 

Robbery: Several UT staff members, faculty, students, and Texas Ex's discovered a fraction of a percentage point had been taken and was transported across state lines. The percentage point was discovered north of the Red River at the campus of another Big 12 South University.

 

http://www.utexas.edu/police/campuswatch/archives/report.php?date=Dec+01+2008

[Butterscup1679666578]

Florida: 38

Alabama: 14

 

Oklahoma: 65

Mizzou: 31

[fiver]

I went and bought a 45-35 shirt today.

 

did you get a big 12 south second place finishers t shirt too

 

I haven't been paying attention to college football threads since college football doesn't really exist in my version of reality this year but wasn't meph a UF fan last year?

[Mephistopheles]

Florida - 38

Alabama - 21

 

Oklahoma - 52

Mizzou - 24

 

No predictions for the thriller tomorrow afternoon in Pasadena???

 

I think you can give UCLA eighteen points for each touchdown, three points for each extra point, six points for each two point conversion, nine points for each field goal and six points for each safety and they'd still come up short.

[Guest]

Fine, I'll go with:

 

USC - 31

UCLA - 0

 

More interesting will be if USC defense outscores its offense (ASU's defense outscored it's offense 28-6).

[manbearcub]

Florida 42

Alabama 13

 

Oklahoma 59

Missouri 30

[ISUCubsFan]

Florida - 37

Alabama - 20

 

Oklahoma - 45

Missouri - 34

 

USC - 35

UCLA - 6

[OleMissCub]

Article from the WSJ with some interesting stats about SEC football:

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122843720586081461.html

 

The Southeastern Conference, a 76-year-old coalition of 12 universities in nine Southern states stretching from Louisiana to Florida, has won three national college football titles in five years, including the last two by blowout, and has an unrivaled 11-4 record in the Bowl Championship Series since 1999.

 

Its teams lead the nation in average attendance, have five of the 12 highest-paid coaches in college football and just signed two broadcast deals worth as much as $3 billion over the next 15 years.

 

While they rank low in many measures like per-capita income and educational achievement, states like Alabama and Mississippi rank close to the top in the percentage of high-school students who play football. And among states that have more than 10 native sons playing in the National Football League, the top six producers by percentage of population are Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida and Georgia.

 

Meanwhile, traditional Northern football states like Pennsylvania, which has long sent young men to heralded northern programs like Penn State, Notre Dame and Ohio State and has stocked the NFL for decades, are falling behind. Today there are 45% more native Louisianans (64) than Pennsylvanians (44) in the NFL, even though Louisiana has only one-third of Pennsylvania's population.

 

Central to the success of the SEC is the ability of its schools to convert this passion into money -- even in a region where there isn't so much to go around. Only three SEC member schools have endowments larger than $1 billion as of the 2007 fiscal year, while half or more of the schools in other major conferences like the Big Ten, Big 12, Pacific-10 and Atlantic Coast Conference do. Their average undergraduate enrollment of roughly 18,000 is significantly smaller than the averages for the Big 12 and Pac-10 conferences. The median household income in Ohio, the poorest state represented by the Big Ten, was $4,500 higher than the average median income for all the SEC states last year.

 

The historical knock on SEC schools among rivals is that their success is predicated on a willingness to stockpile great players by violating NCAA rules on recruiting and athlete benefits. While some of the sanctions have been minor, every SEC school but Vanderbilt has been on probation in the last 25 years.

 

Another charge is that lower academic standards give SEC teams an advantage in recruiting. Just three SEC schools -- Vanderbilt, Florida and Georgia -- were cited among the top 80 universities in U.S. News & World Report's 2009 college rankings, while all 11 members of the Big Ten were in the top 80.

 

Interesting article, but it pretty easily sidesteps what I think is the most obvious reason why the SEC might have a leg up on other conferences: racial demographics.

[abuck1220]

what do you mean?