[charlie]

Originally Posted by Ninong

Tim Tebow and Colt Brennan are by far the most exciting quarterbacks in college football but for different reasons. Tebow is a much more physical player with a lot more muscle mass. It's his running that makes him so exciting. Brennan has incredible accuracy and an incredibly fast release but he's a little bit on the thin side when it comes to physique and I'm positive he can't bench press what Tebow can. In fact, the coaches have to limit Tebow to no more than 400-lbs because they don't want him to bulk up too much or possibly hurt himself.

When I was watching the LSU game yesterday, I was really impressed by Perilloux, (sp?). He has one heck of an arm!!!

The only thing I can see in the future for Tebow is alot of injuries. Running QB's in the NFL usually end up in casts.

[Ninong]

Ryan Perrilloux was considered one of the top high school prospects in the country. He played for a school about 30 miles away from where I live right now. He originally said he was going to Texas but at the last minute he committed to LSU.

He has a strong arm and he's a strong runner. He's not as smart as Matt Flynn or Tim Tebow and he has a tendency to run his mouth too much. He used to make all sorts of outrageous statements to reporters, such as guaranteeing that he would win 4 Heismans no matter which college he chose to bless with his presence.

He rolls with a bad crowd. He needs to wise up and decide if he wants to end up like Michael Vick or Tiger Woods. For his own good, LSU should assign someone to chaperone him. It would be a shame if he messed up a potential multi-million dollar professional career by getting kicked off his college team.

P.S. -- It didn't help his public image to claim that he was "beat up" by the white bouncers because of his race. If he was roughed up, it was because he refused to leave at closing time after being asked to leave several times. And what was he doing keeping his pregnant girlfriend out that late at night?

I have the impression that Les Miles has scared some sense into him since that incident. It was probably a very smart move to suspend him for the Alabama game and not even let him travel with the team. He needed a wakeup call.

[charlie]

Yeah, it seems as tho it is becoming a trend with the younger folk, doesn't it.
How many more chances do you think he has?

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by charlie

How many more chances do you think he has?

I don't know. I know one thing for sure, he doesn't want to have his name appear in the local police blotter again.

[charlie]

If I were him, I would play ostrich for a while!!!

[Ninong]

Sugar Bowl
Georgia & Hawaii

Rose Bowl
USC & Illinois

Fiesta Bowl
Oklahoma & West Virginia

Orange Bowl
Virginia Tech & Kansas

BCS Championship Game
Ohio State & LSU

P.S. -- Under Les Miles' current contract, his pay next year must be at least as much as the third highest paid college football coach if LSU wins the national championship this season. That works out to approximately $3.5 million! His pay this year was $1.8 million.

[Poseidon]

Illinois???? Illinois in the ROSE? What the heck is that!?

[Poseidon]

We get to play FLORIDA!!!! YAY!!! (Hides under table....)

UM vs RUNNING QB = BAD NEWS!

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Poseidon

Illinois???? Illinois in the ROSE? What the heck is that!?

That is where Michigan could have been. Illinois is representing the Big Ten because Ohio State can't go to the Rose Bowl, since they're in the BCS Championship bowl.

1. The top two teams in the final BCS Standings will be placed in the National Championship Game ("NCG").
2. Unless they qualify to play in the NCG, the champions of selected conferences are contractually committed to host selected games:
   
   Atlantic Coast Conference-Orange Bowl
   Big Ten Conference-Rose Bowl
   Big 12 Conference-Fiesta Bowl
   Pac-10 Conference-Rose Bowl
   Southeastern Conference-Sugar Bowl

P.S. -- It's a little more complicated than that but that's really what put Illinois into the Rose Bowl. Missouri got screwed because both Oklahoma and Kansas got in. Missouri was behind Kansas in their division and Oklahoma was the Big 12 conference champion. Hawaii had to be included and that bumped Missouri. Missouri plays Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl.

[charlie]

Alls I can say is wow, but it looks as tho there should be some good college football come New Years day and beyond.
Here's my picks:
Hawaii
USC
Oklahoma-(that hurts)
Kansas
LSU

[Poseidon]

Illinois had a better overall record.... Darn App State!!!!! We tied in Big Ten play, but we BEAT ILLINOIS! ARGH!!!! BLASTED BCS!!!

[Ninong]

BTW, I'm listening to Mark Richt right now on teevee and he doesn't know what the heck he's talking about. He has no idea how the BCS bowl selection process works and he's still running on about how Georgia should have been automatically moved up to No. 2 since they were ranked No. 4 in the last BCS ranking prior to the final week. He keeps forgetting that his team came in second in their division and didn't even play in the SEC championship game. He even had the nerve to say that his team would probably have beaten LSU in the SEC championship game. What a sore loser!

By the way, here are the selection process rules.

The sports anchors are still talking about whether the BCS championship game should pair up the two teams right now that are playing the best football. It was NEVER that way. A team's record for the entire season was always the deciding factor and not just which team was hottest the second half of the season.

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Poseidon

Illinois had a better overall record.... Darn App State!!!!! We tied in Big Ten play, but we BEAT ILLINOIS! ARGH!!!! BLASTED BCS!!!

Yeah, too bad Dennis Dixon didn't tear his ACL before he crushed Michigan, 39-7. Your guys might have been able to beat one of Oregon's redshirt freshmen QB's back then, right?



P.S. -- Cheer up! Look at it this way, when you watch Michigan play in the Capital One bowl, you'll get to see Tim Tebow play without having to flip channels.

[charlie]

Originally Posted by Ninong

Yeah, too bad Dennis Dixon didn't tear his ACL before he crushed Michigan, 39-7. Your guys might have been able to beat one of Oregon's redshirt freshmen QB's back then, right?



P.S. -- Cheer up! Look at it this way, when you watch Michigan play in the Capital One bowl, you'll get to see Tim Tebow play without having to flip channels.

Man, that is cruel

[Poseidon]

Originally Posted by Ninong

Yeah, too bad Dennis Dixon didn't tear his ACL before he crushed Michigan, 39-7. Your guys might have been able to beat one of Oregon's redshirt freshmen QB's back then, right?



P.S. -- Cheer up! Look at it this way, when you watch Michigan play in the Capital One bowl, you'll get to see Tim Tebow play without having to flip channels.

Hey, I never said anything about darn OREGON, they ROCKED us... BUT I will say that if we played them later, it would have been closer. They would still have won, I am not going to go so far as to say we could beat them with Dixon!

As for watching Tebow, you are right.... Except it will SUCK! I have a feeling he is going to shred our secondary outright. I really hope we pull out all the stops on offense and turn this into a shoot out....

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by charlie

Man, that is cruel

Yeah, I'm sorry, I shouldn't be mean to poor Mike because I'm sure he'll be pulling for LSU to beat OSU in the BCS championship game because that's the only way Les Miles has a shot at beating OSU, seeing as how he's not going you-know-where. Ohio State's record against the SEC in bowl games is not very impressive: 0-8. LSU will almost certainly be favored by the real football experts, the guys who set the Las Vegas opening lines.



P.S. -- I don't know what's making Les Miles smile more, the fact that LSU has a chance to win the national championship earning him a $3.5 million salary next year or the opportunity to beat OSU.

[Ninong]

I was reading something in a Honolulu newspaper just now and they said Hawaii's share from the Sugar Bowl will be between $4.5-$5 million. I guess that's because they're not in a BCS conference???

I know down here people were saying that if LSU didn't beat Tennessee to win the SEC conference championship, they would probably end up in the Capital One bowl instead of the Sugar Bowl and they said that the difference was that the Sugar Bowl would pay them about $16 million and the Capital One bowl would pay them about $4 million. That was before both Missouri and West Virginia lost and people down here were thinking LSU had absolutely no shot whatsoever at the national title.

Anyway, I'm sure Hawaii is more than thrilled with $4.5-$5 million as that's double their team's annual budget. Their recruiting budget is only $50,000, which is double what it was the previous year.

[Ninong]

The local TV sports anchors are playing up Colt Brennan big. Brennan did a couple of remote interviews for local TV stations.

Each team in the Sugar Bowl gets 17,500 tickets. I have no idea if Hawaii will use all of theirs or not but Georgia certainly will. The Superdome holds more than 72,000. When LSU beat Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl four years ago to win the national championship, tickets were going for as much as $3,000.

So far LSU has requests for more than 60,000 tickets and they're only getting 16,500. One of the TV anchors said the Sugar Bowl will bring $400 million to New Orleans. That's how much will be spent by fans. I'm not sure if he was talking about both the Sugar Bowl and the BCS championship game or just the Sugar Bowl.

Anyway, I got the impression that the local sports anchors were playing up Mark Richt's whiny comments about how Georgia was robbed and should be playing in the BCS championship game instead of LSU. The guy didn't shut up all evening. Every time I switched channels, there was Mark Richt saying something new about how his team got screwed. He even called it a "beauty contest." In the final rankings, Georgia was ranked tied for sixth by the computers and fourth in both the Coaches poll and the Harris poll.

LSU is favored by 6 over Ohio State. The over/under is 51-1/2.
Georgia is favored by 11 over Hawaii. The over/under is 68-1/2.
Virginia Tech is favored by 3-1/2 over Kansas. The over/under is 54.
Oklahoma is favored by 6-1/2 over West Virginia. The over/under is 65.
USC is favored by 13-1/2 over Illinois. The over/under is 50.

[Ninong]

Recap of this year's BCS bowl selection process:


The conference champions get automatic bids, so Ohio State, LSU, Virginia Tech (to the Orange), Oklahoma (to the Fiesta), USC (to the Rose) and West Virginia get a BCS spot. Add Hawaii to the list after finishing tenth. All it had to do was finish in the top 12, and the Warriors moved up two spots after the win over Washington.

With three spots open, the BCS bowls chose Georgia, Kansas, and Illinois to fill the at-large spots. The Rose Bowl, after losing Big Ten champion Ohio State to the BCS Championship, got the first choice from the at-large pool and took Illinois. The Sugar Bowl, after losing SEC champion LSU to the BCS Championship, snagged Georgia with the second choice. The Orange Bowl took Kansas with the third pick and the Fiesta took West Virginia with the fourth, leaving Hawaii for the Sugar. Remember, only two teams from a conference can play in a BCS bowl.

The Big Winners: Ohio State (3rd to 1st), LSU (7th to 2nd), Hawaii (12th to 10th)

The Big Losers: Georgia (4th to 5th), Missouri (1st to 6th), West Virginia (2nd to 9th)

1. Ohio State, Score: 0.9588

Last Week: 3

Everything played out perfectly for the Buckeyes. Being No. 1 in this race doesn't matter, but it's a nice ending of the regular season considering the team hadn't played in two weeks. The computers were lukewarm, with only two ranking OSU in the top two, but the humans overwhelmingly had OSU No. 1 making it a no-brainer after West Virginia and Missouri lost.

2. LSU, Score: 0.9394

Last Week: 7

Four computers had LSU in the top two and the humans followed suit. Call this a self-adjustment of the market as LSU, ranked seventh just last week, made the huge leap into the No. 2 spot by a wide margin. No. 3 Virginia Tech wasn't even close.

3. Virginia Tech, Score: 0.8703

Last Week: 6

The No. 1 team in the nation according to the computers, Virginia Tech didn't get nearly enough love from the human polls, and that's all that matters. Third is the worst spot to be in when all is said and done, and now it appears obvious that if the Hokies had held on against Matt Ryan and Boston College in the 14-10 loss on October 25th, they'd have ended up playing for the national title.

4. Oklahoma, Score: 0.8572

Last Week: 9

The Sooners might have had the most impressive conference championship showing, but it didn't mean a whole bunch in the Sooner-Hokie-Tiger debate. Bob Stoops and company do have a beef. They beat the No. 1 team in America, Missouri, on a neutral field, and wasn't even close to getting into the top two. None of the computers had OU in the top two, and the humans overwhelmingly put LSU in the two spot.

5. Georgia, Score: 0.8392

Last Week: 4

The Georgia dream scenario happened, and it didn't matter. Not only didn't the Dawgs get into the BCS title game, they dropped a spot. As the top at-large team available, they can be comfortable in that they're the best of the rest, but not winning the division, the lack of big wins and getting no respect from the computers proved to be too much to overcome.

6. Missouri, Score: 0.7763

Last Week: 1

Missouri went from having a shot at the national title to not controlling its fate for a BCS spot. Even after the loss to Oklahoma, the Anderson & Hester computer poll had the Tigers No. 2. That's the only love the Tigers got as they sunk like a stone in all the other polls.

7. USC, Score: 0.7637

Last Week: 8

So much for the hottest team theory. The Trojans inspired a collective yawn from the computers, getting ranked 12th in two of the polls, while the humans didn't get them anywhere near the top two.

8. Kansas, Score: 0.7589

Last Week: 5

Missouri getting blasted in the Big 12 title game gave Kansas BCS life. Despite beating no one of substance this season, the Jayhawks finished fifth among the computers.

9. West Virginia, Score: 0.6628

Last Week: 2

Ooops. The real debate would've been West Virginia or Ohio State or LSU had the Mountaineers pulled out a squeaker against Pitt. Now WVU fell to a remote island at nine. It doesn't matter since it had already earned a BCS berth by virtue of winning the Big East, but respect isn't there anymore.


Here.

P.S. -- That last scenario was something I hadn't even considered. What if Missouri had lost and West Virginia had just barely beaten Pitt? Based on what we now know about the various computer rankings and the way the humans actually voted, it's very likely that Ohio State and LSU would have been in the top two spots and West Virginia would have fallen out of the BCS championship game in spite of having won their final game.

[Ninong]

LSU will "amend" Les Miles' current contract

Miles' current contract runs through 2011. His amended contract will run through 2012. He currently makes $1.8 million/year. His amended contract will pay him $2.6 million next year if he loses the BCS championship game or $3.4 million next year if he beats Ohio State.

The new contract will be ready for signing before the end of the week.