The Case Against Ohio State
As the first lights from the dawn of the 2008 College football season begin to peek over the horizon, let’s look at the one team that will most assuredly, NOT be playing in Miami for all of the (mythical) marbles. (more…)
TALB’s Insanely Inaccurate Preseason College Football Preview
It’s not even June yet. Most college footballers are home trying not to run afoul of their local constabulary. Yet the flood-gates of preseason power rankings are about to open. Stewie Mandel may have been first off the blocks, but the rest are just biding their time. With that in mind, TALB thought this would be a great time to toss some chum into the water. But in a way that only TALB could do it. (more…)
TALB Open Source College Football Ranking (TOSCFR)
For the 2008 college football season TALB intends to embark on a quest to come up with a better ranking system. It is a “computer” ranking by definition. This is a work-in-progress, and is considered “open source”. Anyone can take this methodology, and fold/spindle/mutilate to make it better. And more specifically, a developer with the talent and the time can probably make this a reality more so than I could. [Posted as a “page” so it stays on the front. Comments enabled there.] (more…)
Playoffs - Changes?
Hey there. How’s it been going? Me, same old. What’s that? Oh… yeah it’s not that kind of blog. Today, let’s talk about the playoffs. Both of the pro and “armature” variety. The NFL is looking (finally) to resolve the old problem of having bad division winners at home against good wild-cards. And, lo and behold, the NCAA may actually consider talking about looking into a Division I-A playoff. (more…)
They Are The Champions
Monday night, LSU defeated Ohio State. Further fanning the flames of “teh SEC r0×0rz” across these grand intertubes. (more…)
Sixty Minutes
Hopefully the Bucs got a load of Forever stamps a few months back, as they’ve been mailing it in for a month. And it showed Sunday afternoon. The Bucs looked like a team that shouldn’t be in the playoffs. And maybe they shouldn’t have. But rules are rules, and they got to self-destruct in front of the entirety of the NFL-watching public. Well done lads. (more…)
Most. Boring. BCS. Ever.
I can’t remember a less anticpated college bowl season. Can you? And why in the heck is June Jones commenting on Tim Tebow? (more…)
