College Football Cafeteria

Sunday’s Sloppy Seconds: Ole Miss tanks, LSU sucks and more

Sloppy Joe — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:47:06 +0000

So the first weekend of college football finally arrived, and it did not disappoint. I’ll just cover some highlights and offer up some opinions on what we’ve seen and learned so far. The best part is the weekend isn’t over- more games today and tomorrow still to come, including Boise State vs. Virginia Tech. But on to what has already happened.

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Thursday in Review 9/2/10

Bones — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:55:33 +0000

Thoughts and ramblings on the first round of games, courtesy of a misanthrope (look it up!) with DirecTV (Side note: Rankings here represent the AP Poll, so the Southern Cal game can be included)…

Marshall-7, #2 Ohio State-45

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My First Rankings Data

Sloppy Joe — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:21:31 +0000

All right, it is still rough, but I’ve analyzed data from Boise State and Alabama last year to see who really deserved the national title. I found some interesting points. To recap this rankings methodology, here it is in a nutshell. After 6 games have been played, you take every teams average points per game scored and average points per game allowed. You then look at the averages of any given team vs. the averages of their opponents. Look at the actual scores of the games. Then each team gets another set of averages- how many more points do they score on their opponents than their opponents allow, and how many fewer points they allow than their opponents score on average. Still with me?

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Don’t Give Up Now

Ike — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:13:45 +0000

Don’t throw in the towel yet, Sloppy!! Your original playoff proposal is still the best out there and is still worth fighting for! I recognize that any type of playoff format is better than the trash we have now. I can understand that Sloppy would want to come up with a version that’s a bit less revolutionary, and thus a bit more practical. However, my philosophy is that anything worth doing is worth doing right. Any change to this system is going to be like pulling teeth, so we might as well go for the gusto. Once the doors are finally opened to change, we should do our best to get the best change put in place possible before they close again. Instead of swinging for a single, let’s go for the fence. Forgive me for using an analogy from the most boring sport ever invented, but it’s all that came to mind.

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Check Out The New WCC Logo!

Sloppy Joe — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:22 +0000

With BYU now joining the WCC in all sports except for football, the conference needed to create a new logo. I took the pleasure of helping them out with this modification to their existing design. Pretty spot on, don’t you think?

News from the “Who really cares?” file

Bones — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:40:55 +0000

If you ever needed proof that time is relative, look no further than the week before college football starts back. Time has slowed down to an intolerable crawl, and even the baseball highlights are getting recycled into an unimaginative mash of “Stephen Strasburn hurt his arm OMG!!11!!one!!” Look, I might be the only writer on this blog who likes baseball, and I find that uninteresting. The season starts in a little more than a day (It’s about midnight here on the East Coast) and all the preview magazines and articles have exhausted their sources and their readers. As a result, all we have is this awesome news flash out of Alabama: Mark Ingram will miss the Tide’s first game!

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A Proposed New Postseason Format To Please Everyone

Sloppy Joe — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:17:31 +0000

It’s no secret the BCS has been the greatest and worst thing to ever happen to college football. It has created the best of times (see Texas vs. USC and Boise State vs. Oklahoma) and it has brought us the worst of times (see most other BCS bowl games.) Whether you agree with us here at the Cafeteria or not, one thing is for sure, the BCS has given us all something to talk about. But here’s what really irks me… BCS stands for Bowl Championship Series. Series, huh? What exactly is the series of bowls that leads one to the championship? There are a series of bowl games and then the championship, but none have any relationship to the other. I’m going to be updating my college football playoff proposal and fixing that. I think I’ve come up with a pretty good system to replace the current BCS format, and here it is in a nutshell.

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A Compelling Reason For BYU To Stay In The MWC

Sloppy Joe — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:43:11 +0000

As if this hasn’t been discussed enough, here’s a compelling reason for BYU to stay in the MWC: Texas. Hear me out. It’s no secret that Texas is by far the largest generator of college athletics revenue. Second place Ohio State isn’t even $20 million away. And this is why it’s no secret Texas is going to be an independent just as soon as they have their network up and running. This should not be any shock to anyone familiar with college sports. But if you thought this summer had a crazy domino avalanche of conference speculation, wait until Texas breaks up the Big XII.

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MWC and C-USA could this be the beginning of something?

Chris — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:26:33 +0000

College football expansion is still a hot topic even though right now the big question is whether or not BYU is singing a Clash song in its head; “Should I stay or Should I go.” There is however a question that is on the horizon and will soon be a story that will gain some momentum in the coming months; it is the alliance between the Mountain West and Conference USA. Could this be the start of something bigger as C-USA and the MWC go into a closed room and hammer out a non-aggression pact. As the two little guys on the “commish” totem pole attempt to gain access to the BCS.

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Further evidence of prejudice against offensive linemen

Bones — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:34:38 +0000

Don’t read too much into the title, it’s just a joke.

Just a quick one here, folks. Perhaps you haven’t heard, but an Oregon State lineman got kicked off the team for being naked in another person’s apartment. Sure it’s funny to those of us who are casual observers, but this is a fairly serious offense. I mean, it was bad enough to get kicked off the team, which is apparently a realm that drunk driving and assaulting other players hasn’t lapsed into yet. Maybe it’s just that this kid wasn’t a top 100 recruit, or big-name player and thus wasn’t really worth cooking up more than one excuse for.

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