College Football Cafeteria

The Latest On A College Football Playoff

Sloppy Joe — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:52:53 +0000

Sorry it has been so long since the last post. Being the offseason and all there isn’t much going on. But today there was an article on ESPN about the NCAA President’s support of a playoff that needs mentioning. Oddly he only supports a 4 team playoff instead of 16 or 20 like is done at other levels of college football. This is because other levels of the sport play 10 or sometimes 11 game schedules, not 12 or 13 game schedules.

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The BCS Cancels The NBA Season And Schedules Championship Game

Sloppy Joe — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:31:53 +0000

In a puzzling display of stupidity, Bill Hancock, Executive Director of the Bowl Championship Series, called a press conference this morning to make a “special announcement” regarding professional basketball. Perplexed reporters from both college football and the NBA showed up, wondering what purpose could have possibly brought them together. Hancock quickly put the questions to rest when he boldly cut the NBA season short and declared the matchup for the championship game to be played in just over a month.

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My Final Computer Rankings Formula

Sloppy Joe — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:11:52 +0000

All right everyone, I have finally figured out my college football ranking formula. It is going to be epic. It is going to look at five different variables, rank teams accordingly, then take your average ranking to give you an overall rating. So based on how you rank in the five categories, that’s where you will end up in the overall rankings. So let me explain each category and how it works.

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How ESPN Sees The SEC

Sloppy Joe — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:06:30 +0000

Ever notice how everyone at ESPN is an SEC cheerleader? Ever wonder why that is? Well let me explain in word and image. ESPN makes money when people turn on their station. People turn on their station when they are showing something people want to see. So ESPN wants to show what most people want to see. And when it comes to college football, a large region of the country shuts down on Saturdays: the South. Why do you think ESPN wants an SEC team in the title game every year? That’s what gets the most ratings. Except if it is between two SEC teams who already played it seems, since this was the lowest rated BCS title game ever. But to explain this in easy to understand terms, I took the liberty of revising the SEC logo to appear how the folks at ESPN see it.

If that doesn’t explain it, nothing will.

2012 Preseason College Football Rankings

Sloppy Joe — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:14:51 +0000

It’s that time of year again, the time when one season ends and all the hype starts to build for the next season. And nowhere is preseason hype for 2012 more evident than in 2012 preseason college football rankings. Just like I did with the 2011 preseason rankings, the 2010 preseason rankings and the 2009 preseason rankings, I’m going to pool together all of the way too early 2012 preseason rankings and combine them to give you an idea of what the actual preseason rankings for 2012 will look like when they are released in August.

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The Right Way To Do A Plus One Playoff

Sloppy Joe — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:06:02 +0000

Everyone knows the BCS bigwigs are getting together and discussing the future of the BCS. Several topics will be on the table, such as bowl selection, automatic qualifiers and the plus one model. A plus one would be a good start, but 8 teams would be ideal. Still, if a plus one playoff is possible, we must jump on it. But we have to do it right. This is the right way to implement a plus one playoff model.

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And This Is Why College Football Is Not As Popular As It Can Be

Sloppy Joe — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:43:33 +0000

Well I started to watch last night’s BCS title game. But I stopped. I found The Bachelor to be far more entertaining than the “big boy” football I was being subjected to. Although based on the Twitter explosion after the game it wasn’t hard to know who won, or what the implications were. There was quite a vocal minority of people online hoping for a “split championship” to happen. For those who may not know, a split championship is when one team wins the USA Today poll and a different team wins the AP poll. Well, didn’t happen, but this just shows a huge, gaping flaw of college football that hampers it from being as popular and loved as it could be.

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The Reason College Football Has No Playoff

Sloppy Joe — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:19:14 +0000

The BCS is a terrible system of determining a champion. Under their logic, Germany won WWII. Just look at the strength of their opponents and all of those quality wins, several on the road. The BCS also tells us Virginia Tech is better than Clemson, even though they played two times, once at Virginia Tech, once at a neutral site, and Clemson whipped them both times. You see, the BCS is not a way of determining if one team is better than another. Clemson is a perfect example. Clearly a better team than Virginia Tech. BCS says not so. So why do we have it?

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Bones’s Bowl Preview: National Championship Edition

Bones — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:43:24 +0000

Well, we’ve sifted through 34 bowls, some good and some bad. We’ve arrived at the lone game in this crazy postseason that matters: The BCS National Title Game. Let’s analyze, shall we?

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An Infographic to Explain the BCS

Sloppy Joe — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:49:15 +0000

Someone emailed me a link to an infographic they created that helps to explain what is wrong with the BCS. If you check out the contact form I expressly ask people not to do this, and by and large it has stopped. I figured it serves to make sure only serious people with something seriously good should bother emailing me. Well, I liked what they put together and so I am reposting it here with permission.

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