The College Football Thread 2006

[DanS]

Not on your life.

[-Jrabbit]

Man, the OSU tackles couldn't block squat tonight. Pwned. Totally.

Urban Meyer deserves huge props as a game planner. You don't need to seek respect after you've flogged it out of the #1 team.
A national championship is its own reward.

Congrats to Florida, current holders of both the NCAA football and basketball chamionships.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ah, the stubbornness of DanS. Even facts can't sway him .

[mrmitchell]

Arkansas: Moral Victory National Champions

"I'm proud of our boys, they played with a lot of heart today, but they just couldn't pull it off."

[DanS]

I was surprised at how poorly OSU's game plan worked, what with Troy Smith only having 35 yards passing. Makes Brady Quinn's (and the whole ND offense's) numbers against LSU look stellar.

[DanS]

Notre Dame with a new Defensive Coordinator, apparently. Nothing on the news wires about who it is yet.

Edit: Charlie Strong, Florida's DC?

[Ned]

The only thing I am really surprised about is that OSU remained number two in the polls. I think both LSU and USC proved they were better by dominating "common" opponents of OSU in bowl games. Clearly the Big Ten was way overrated this year.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by Ned
The only thing I am really surprised about is that OSU remained number two in the polls. I think both LSU and USC proved they were better by dominating "common" opponents of OSU in bowl games. Clearly the Big Ten was way overrated this year*.

* With the exception of Wisconsin.

[Drake Tungsten]

Wisconsin's just as overrated as the rest of the Big Ten. They were just lucky enough to get matched up with an SEC team that wasn't Florida or LSU in their bowl game, as was Penn State. If it wasn't for SEC football, the Big Ten would've went 0-7 in the bowls...

[SlowwHand]

Which conference fared the best? Won - Lost in Bowl games? Did I miss the final analysis?

[Drake Tungsten]

Big East was the best. I'm pretty sure the Big Ten was the worst, but I'm too lazy to tally all the conference W-L records myself. Maybe the Sun Belt did worse...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Sloww, Big East went 5-0 and easily had the best record of any conference.

[Tuberski]

Big East # 5 5-0 1.000 Winners: Louisville, Rutgers, South Florida, West Virginia, Cincinnati
Losers: none

MWC 4 3-1 .750 Winners: BYU, TCU, Utah
Loser: New Mexico

WAC 4 3-1 .750 Winners: Boise State, Hawaiʻi, San Jose State
Loser: Nevada

SEC 9 6-3 .667 Winners: Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina
Losers: Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee

ACC 8 4-4 .500 Winners: Boston College, Florida State, Maryland, Miami
Losers: Clemson, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

Pac-10 6 3-3 .500 Winners: California, Oregon State, Southern California
Losers: Arizona State, Oregon, UCLA

Sun Belt ‚ 2 1-1 .500 Winner: Troy
Loser: Middle Tennessee

Big 12 8 3-5 .375 Winners: Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech
Losers: Kansas State, Missouri, Texas A&M, Nebraska, Oklahoma

Big Ten 7 2-5 .286 Winners: Penn State, Wisconsin
Losers: Iowa, Minnesota, Purdue, Michigan, Ohio State

MAC 4 1-3 .250 Winner: Central Michigan
Losers: Northern Illinois, Ohio, Western Michigan

C-USA 5 1-4 .200 Winner: Southern Miss
Losers: East Carolina, Houston, Rice, Tulsa

Independent 2 0-2 .000 Winner:
Losers: Navy, Notre Dame

So the Major conferences are: Big East, MWC, WAC and SEC.

Big 10, Pac-10 and Big 12 are all mid-majors!



Maybe that is how they should decide BCS conferences, records in Bowl games from the Previous year.


ACK!

[SlowwHand]

BUT, Big 12 had 8 bowl games.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
BUT, Big 12 had 8 bowl games.

And it took the MWC and WAC 4 games to win as many as the Big 12 did.



ACK!