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5pm East on ABC.

I'll post the games as they are announced.

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I predict a lot of bitching in this thread.

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Obviously,

Rose Bowl

#1 USC vs #2 Texas

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Doubtful. Oregon is the only one that could be getting jobbed since OSU will be #4 (and an automatic BCS birth)thanks to the two upsets yesterday. ND is a clear choice over Oregon for a multitude of reasons already discussed.

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I stand by my prediction.

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Orange Bowl

#3 Penn State vs #22 Florida State

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lol FSU

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i feel bad for PSU. They've played great all year, and get stuck against a weak FSU team.

FSU deserves to play West Virginia

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i feel bad for PSU. They've played great all year, and get stuck against a weak FSU team.

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Doesn't PSU always get stuck? Hasn't Patterno had three undefeated teams, none of which have won the "national title"?

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Fiesta Bowl

#4 tOSU vs #6 Notre Dame

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w00t let's go ND

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ND is an automatic in since they finished top 6. I wasnt sure where they'd finish with VT and LSU also having 2 losses. They would have gotten the birth anyway.

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ND is an automatic in since they finished top 6. I wasnt sure where they'd finish with VT and LSU also having 2 losses. They would have gotten the birth anyway.

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Now Oregon can't complain.

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Sugar Bowl

#7 Georgia vs #11 West Virginia

edited to fix name of bowl and add ranks

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Orange Bowl

Georgia vs West Virginia

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O RLY?

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i feel bad for PSU. They've played great all year, and get stuck against a weak FSU team.

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Doesn't PSU always get stuck? Hasn't Patterno had three undefeated teams, none of which have won the "national title"?

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Even if they hadn't blown that game to Michigan, they likely wouldn't have made it in anyway. They also likely would have gone on to win their bowl game, making it his 4th undefeated non-national championship team.

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i feel bad for PSU. They've played great all year, and get stuck against a weak FSU team.

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Doesn't PSU always get stuck? Hasn't Patterno had three undefeated teams, none of which have won the "national title"?

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Even if they hadn't blown that game to Michigan, they likely wouldn't have made it in anyway. They also likely would have gone on to win their bowl game, making it his 4th undefeated non-national championship team.

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Computers would have had them at #1. It would have been close.

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ND is an automatic in since they finished top 6. I wasnt sure where they'd finish with VT and LSU also having 2 losses. They would have gotten the birth anyway.

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Well, they can, but it will probably fall on dear ears. Its too bad that there are only 3 other teams that have the same or better record than them and Oregon got shut out, but they also shouldnt be scheduling I-AA opponents either. I cant believe that they didnt try to buy their way out of that game after what happened to Auburn last year. Why any decent I-A program would schedule a I-AA opponent is beyond stupid.

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i feel bad for PSU. They've played great all year, and get stuck against a weak FSU team.

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Doesn't PSU always get stuck? Hasn't Patterno had three undefeated teams, none of which have won the "national title"?

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Even if they hadn't blown that game to Michigan, they likely wouldn't have made it in anyway. They also likely would have gone on to win their bowl game, making it his 4th undefeated non-national championship team.

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Computers would have had them at #1. It would have been close.

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Computers may have had them at number 1. too bad that the human polls count for 2/3s of the calculation.

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i feel bad for PSU. They've played great all year, and get stuck against a weak FSU team.

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Doesn't PSU always get stuck? Hasn't Patterno had three undefeated teams, none of which have won the "national title"?

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Even if they hadn't blown that game to Michigan, they likely wouldn't have made it in anyway. They also likely would have gone on to win their bowl game, making it his 4th undefeated non-national championship team.

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Computers would have had them at #1. It would have been close.

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Computers may have had them at number 1. too bad that the human polls count for 2/3s of the calculation.

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Texas was #1 in the BCS earlier this year when SC was #1 in both human polls, so it could happen. I guess PSU could have stolen a few #1 votes in the human polls, which may have been enough to get them up there, but I dont think anyone could really think that PSU is better than either Texas or SC. I told you guys a few weeks back that Michigan saved PSU fans a bunch of complaining about how they were getting screwed.

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these season highlights are bring back bad memories for everyone, unless you happen to be a USC/Texas fan.

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for some reason, they showed the Capital One Bowl, which will be

#9 Auburn vs #18 Wisconsin

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I'm boycotting all games except for USC/Texas.

[censored] every part of the country that's not Oregon.

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To all you SEC bashers, I'll take Georgia against WV. Any takers?

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For all the Michigan haters out there, rejoice. I heard that we got jobbed and will be going to Alamo Bowl vs Nebraska rather than the Outback Bowl vs Florida. They took Iowa rather than us, and we beat Iowa this year. I would have liked to play Florida.

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To all you SEC bashers, I'll take Georgia against WV. Any takers?

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Ah, so now you jump on our bandwagon after picking LSU to beat Shockley and the Dawgs yesterday. Sigh.

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To all you SEC bashers, I'll take Georgia against WV. Any takers?

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Ah, so now you jump on our bandwagon after picking LSU to beat Shockley and the Dawgs yesterday. Sigh.

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Show me where I picked LSU. Please.

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Computers may have had them at number 1. too bad that the human polls count for 2/3s of the calculation.

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Too bad? The reason you have the human element is to keep what would have been an undefeated PSU team at #3.

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ND is an automatic in since they finished top 6. I wasnt sure where they'd finish with VT and LSU also having 2 losses. They would have gotten the birth anyway.

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Now Oregon can't complain.

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Im not sure this is entirely accurate...

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Computers may have had them at number 1. too bad that the human polls count for 2/3s of the calculation.

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Too bad? The reason you have the human element is to keep what would have been an undefeated PSU team at #3.

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thank you for spelling out my point. moron.

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Three compelling matchups. If only the Big East wasn't part of the equation, we might have had four. For all the BCS critics (of which I'm one), it actually worked this year.

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*cough* FSU *cough*

If only Va Tech beat FSU, we'd have 4 nice matchups.

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it actually worked this year

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It "works" every year in which there are exactly two undefeated major conference teams. And that's about it.

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To all you SEC bashers, I'll take Georgia against WV. Any takers?

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Ah, so now you jump on our bandwagon after picking LSU to beat Shockley and the Dawgs yesterday. Sigh.

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you're probably talking about me....the blue background with the Chief

I did pick Georgia to win the SEC back on October 23rd in the final 8 thread...so I'm not exactly a Georgia basher

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BCS sucks!

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BCS sucks!

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I could not disagree more

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I'll watch Bowden v. Paterno.

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Show me where I picked LSU. Please.

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Yeah, my bad. You and My Turn 2 Raise have the same avatar.

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Nice. Well we got one, maybe two good games out of the BCS. I say maybe two beacause I think USC will throttle a highly overrated Texas team. That leaves us with only ND vs. OSU and I have to work during that game. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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it actually worked this year

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It "works" every year in which there are exactly two undefeated major conference teams. And that's about it.

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and the sad thing is it woulda worked with the old system too.

the bcs pretty much solves what it was set forth to do: choose the best 2 teams (scientifically, which may be flawed), to play for the national title.

any time there are 3 undefeated teams and no playoffs, people are going to whine and bitch about it.

honestly, to all your BCS bashers out there, what do you expect this system to do, magically give on of the three teams a loss?

Playoffs are the only solution, but the greedy NCAA won't have any of it.