November 15th, 2009 05:53pm
by tommy.deas
And then there were two.
Possibilities, that is.
It seems evident that it would be all but impossible for the University of Alabama football team to fall below the Bowl Championship Series threshold. And that only leaves two possibilities, no matter what happens from now until the conclusion of the SEC Championship Game.
BCS Championship Game: 50 percent.
If Alabama beats Auburn and tops the defending national champion Florida Gators in the SEC title tilt in Atlanta, it’s off to Pasadena, most likely to …
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November 8th, 2009 07:29pm
by tommy.deas
The picture has become more clear with the University of Alabama’s defeat of LSU. Not only did the Crimson Tide claim the Southeastern Conference Western Division title and a spot in the SEC title game for the second year in a row, it made the likelihood of UA falling very far in the bowl sweepstakes highly unlikely.
This is the updated installment of Bama Bowl Bingo, a by-percentage breakdown of Alabama’s possible postseason destinations:
BCS Championship Game: 35 percent.
Alabama vs. Florida, winner …
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November 1st, 2009 11:16pm
by tommy.deas
With the University of Alabama’s football regular season two-thirds complete and the postseason picture becoming clearer, this seems like a good time to start speculating on where the Crimson Tide will go bowling.
From now through the end of the regular season — since the word will be official about a week after the Auburn game — I’ll handicap the odds on each bowl Alabama seems to have a possibility of ending up in, and against whom, with those odds changing …
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November 1st, 2009 12:20am
by tommy.deas
The Blackout didn’t work, as any Alabama fan who remembers last season well knows.
The black helmets-and-black-pants trick didn’t do to well against Florida, even on Halloween.
I’ve got a suggestion for Mark Richt — try a new gimmick. Like blocking and tackling.
Georgia needs to start paying attention to fundamentals instead of trying to make a fashion statement, as a friend of mine who graduated from UGA freely admits.
Just a few years ago, it looked like Georgia was going to fill the …
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October 24th, 2009 10:45pm
by tommy.deas
Some football fan bases put much more stock into what their team wears than others.
Having been around University of Alabama football — a program that prides itself on sticking with traditional uniforms that vary little from year to year — for a few decades now , I can’t say that I understand why it matters to LSU fans if the Tigers wear white jerseys at home, why Notre Dame supporters swoon when the Irish break out their green jerseys, or …
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October 21st, 2009 12:30pm
by tommy.deas
Good thing the Southeastern Conference still has Steve Spurrier around. If he wasn’t at South Carolina, who would we have to protected the game of football from tape-carrying holders?
The revelation Tuesday that Spurrier was complaining to the Southeastern Conference office that P.J. Fitzgerald, Alabama’s holder on placekicks, may have used a piece of tape to mark the spot on the turf to place the ball in last weekend’s game might be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic.
Here’s one of the …
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October 19th, 2009 04:09pm
by tommy.deas
Bowl Championship Series haters have returned to Boise State as their favorite team once again in 2009.
But make sure you don’t call Boise State a BCS hater — the Broncos love the BCS. They love the much-maligned college football championship system so much, in fact, that the official Boise State athletic Web site has a humongous BCS logo plastered across the front page.
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October 12th, 2009 05:30pm
by tommy.deas
I do. Steve Spurrier was the ol’ ball coach when he was with the Florida Gators. Now he’s becoming just an old ball coach.
Don’t get me wrong. Spurrier is doing an outstanding job with the South Carolina Gamecocks, but he’s doing it in old-school fashion. South Carolina is winning with a hard-nosed defense and a grind-it-out running game more than with the Fun-n-Gun style he dominated with at Florida.
No longer is Spurrier an offensive guru. Somewhere along the way, after …
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September 29th, 2009 03:27pm
by tommy.deas
College football’s elite-tier bowl system is broken — not because there’s no playoff, not because there’s no plus-one and not because the Bowl Championship Series rankings are out of whack.
It’s broken for one simple reason, and that reason is that there is one game too many.
Having the Sugar Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl anointed as the four major bowls who get their pick of the top teams is one thing (although you could argue …
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September 28th, 2009 11:57am
by tommy.deas
How many Southeastern Conference football referees does it take to call a penalty?
Way more than it should.
For some reason, SEC officials have come to the conclusion that even the simplest of calls requires a conference where everybody gets a vote. A holding call means three or four — or more — refs get together to discuss whatever it is they discuss after throwing a flag before they announce the infraction to the crowd and (if those watching are lucky) mark …
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