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I'd put my money on Urban lying--AGAIN The first lie was retiring because of his "stress related health problems, and wanting to spend more time with his family". Is Ohio State, now facing NCAA discipline, a less stressful job than Florida?

This is the video the team watched the night before the Oregon game. USC was a 14.5 point underdog.

Green Bay @ Detroit Miami @ Dallas San Francisco @ Baltimore Minnesota @ Atlanta Cleveland @ Cincinnati Buffalo @ New York Jets Tampa Bay @ Tennessee Arizona @ St. Louis Houston @ Jacksonville Carolina @ Indianapolis Washington @ Seattle Chicago @ Oakland New England @ Philadelphia Denver @ San Diego Pittsburgh @ Kansas City New York Giants @ New Orleans Tiebreaker: 44

The 64 teams in the NCAA tournament represent the whole of college basketball. 8 teams won't do the same for football. Every league is guaranteed a representative for March Madness, because there is an automatic bid for winning the conference tournament(not the regular season champ). This means little known Santa Clara can win the WCC tournament, after posting a season record below .500, and receive and automatic bid to the big dance. In turn, it knocks one of the bigger programs out, even if it has a better record, because it didn't win its conference tournament. There's still the end of season debate about bubble teams and who should have got in, but no one can ever argue over conference tournament winners. That's set in stone. You win it, you're in it. With an 8 team football playoff, 3 teams (and even more if bids are based on rankings) would play an entire season and have absolutely nothing to show for it. If the season ended today, and we took only the top 8 teams in the BCS, champions from the Pac 12, Big East, Big 10, MAC, WAC, Sunbelt, and all the independents are left out. Oregon beat Stanford, but it would be the loser of that game representing the Pac 12. 5 of the 11 conferences would go without representation. Can you imagine a football playoff with no teams from the Big 10?

The postseason can be extended. The BCS has already done it, since all games used to be completed by New Year's day. The big cry from school presidents has been "preserving the integrity of the bowls". I guess they haven't looked at some of those bowl attendance figures lately. Computer rankings stink. Have you seen them lately? After getting beat down by undefeated Iowa State, Oklahoma State is still ranked #2 in five of the seven computers, and #3 in the others. The computers will give a high score for quality of opponents, which is fine when they are ranked, but they can't tell the difference between beating a 4-0 Mississippi State team and defeating a 4-0 Louisiana Tech. A football team can only play one game per week. Basketball can play as many as 2 or 3. The NCAA starts with 64 teams, but by the end of the first week, the number has already been trimmed to 16, with games played on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It takes about 3 weeks, after beginning with 64 teams, to crown a basketball champ.

This is exactly why the NCAA doesn't recognize any national champions in football now, and still wouldn't in an 8-team playoff. There are 120 division I programs, divided into 11 conferences and a small group of independents. To have an 8-team playoff format is to leave 3 conference champions out, and it wouldn't be full representation that the NCAA requires. As it is, the NFL has a 12-team playoff for a 32-team league, which works easily. Having 8 represent 120 schools doesn't come close to solving the problem. The fix has been in motion over the past few years. It's conference realignment. If the conferences can continue to grow in size, and weaker league's are dissolved by it, it trims the number of representatives needed for full representation. Trim it to 8 Super conferences and the 8-team format is perfect, maybe extending to 10 to include two wildcards. But I think that movement is about to be slowed by the proposal that the BCS only focuses on the top two teams in the country, leaving all the other bowls up for grabs by anyone. Realignment was sparked by teams in lesser league's trying to get a piece of the BCS pie by moving into BCS leagues. Eliminate that pie and you eliminate the need to relocate. Another fix would be a split in the upper division, which would lift the elite programs to the highest level and drop the lesser programs into a lower division of the NCAA. Right now you have FBS and FCS. Divide it again, and place that upper tier division (now with fewer schools) into a playoff. The media can always opt to get rid of the BCS and move to an 8-team playoff, but it would still be a media award. It would still be considered a mythical championship, just as it is now, and as it will always be in any league that only has partial representation in the postseason.

That happened in 2008. One-loss Florida played one-loss Oklahoma in the championship game. Utah was undefeated and left out. The Utes beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl and were the only undefeated team at the end of the season. They have nothing to show for it.

This is the video the Trojans watched the night before the game, knowing they were 2 touchdown underdogs. USC 38 Oregon 35 snaps the Ducks 21-game home win streak, 19-game conference win streak FIGHT ON!

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I could probably understand it if he worked at a preschool, but Casinos have morals now?

What do you mean too pussy for Pro Football and it never worked? The Rams played here for nearly 50 years. Los Angeles has hosted 6 Super Bowls, including the first. Saying the city is too pussy for football is like saying the New York metropolitan area is the same, since both the Giants and Jets moved out. It's all about stadiums, which is one of the main reasons any team threatens to move.

It's this, from a Party Leinart had his rookie year in Arizona.

I believe the opposite. I think there's a greater chance of an acquittal if this case is tried in that county. Penn State and Sandusky money is everywhere, and here's just one example:

But we're talking about Yale, where education trumps everything else. They don't even offer athletic scholarships.

New York Jets @ Denver Carolina @ Detroit Tampa Bay @ Green Bay Dallas @ Washington Cincinnati @ Baltimore Oakland @ Minnesota Buffalo @ Miami Jacksonville @ Cleveland Seattle @ St. Louis Arizona @ San Francisco Tennessee @ Atlanta San Diego @ Chicago Philadelphia @ New York Giants Kansas City @ New England Tiebreaker: 44