Tuesday Afternoon Linebacker

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…)

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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…)

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Monday night, LSU defeated Ohio State. Further fanning the flames of “teh SEC r0×0rz” across these grand intertubes. (more…)

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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…)

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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…)

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As our friend SMQ might say, They All Fall Down. “#1″ Missouri lost, by a lot, to Oklahoma. “#2″ West Virginia lost by not so much to a team they should have reduced to cinders.

Who should play for the (increasingly) “Mythical” National Championship? Your guess is as good as mine. But given the facts in evidence, the only logical (term used quite loosely) pairing is Ohio State and LSU. (more…)

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With Oregon’s loss Thursday night to Arizona, the BCS is now down to LSU and the Big XII. With The Ownedhio State University and West Virginia hoping for an SEC championship game “upset”. Let’s talk about it, shall we? (more…)

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