Best to take things one game at a time
Tuberville blasts lack of playoff system (MSNBC)
Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville blasted the lack of playoff format on Wednesday, saying he doubts any team from the Southeastern Conference can make the BCS national championship game without a playoff, ESPN said.
"I've about had it with this playoff deal," said Tuberville, whose Tigers are 5-0 but ranked third behind Ohio State and USC in the coaches and Harris Polls and second by the Associated Press. "We all understand in our conference how tough it is. In our conference, that's about the only chance we'd have to make it."
Maybe Tuberville should have been studying a little more Arkansas game film and bitching a little less about things totally outside his control this week.
Incidentally, nobody took pitiful Arkansas in that game in our pool. Ouch.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/07/06 17:16 | Sports | Technorati
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I was reading a couple weeks back about how Arkansas fans were getting excited about replacing Nutt with Butch Davis. I wonder if this is a bittersweet victory like Texas's against Nebraska a few years back, where we were really happy that they won but upset that it meant that we couldn't fire Macovic.
Arkansas game aside, Tuberville has a good point about the SEC is the most consistently good conference in college football, and yet when push comes to shove their teams don't seem justly rewarded for it.
Posted by R. Alex @ 18:48 on 10/07/06
It's true, especially in the upper half of their conference. The upper half of their conference would beat the hell out of the upper half of any other conference pretty consistently over the last few years.
I thought the Big 12 was up there when Nebraska was still solid, K-State was at the top of their game, Colorado was not that far removed from their national championship, and A&M was good. But those teams are a real drag on the conference now. And with Oklahoma down, it's Texas and the rest. Not what you expect from a "power conference."
Posted by Kevin @ 18:58 on 10/07/06
i ALMOST took Arkansas.
then i made the mistake of reading a story on si.com about how arkansas' freshman QB meant certain defeat.
lesson learned, maybe
Posted by banjo jones @ 20:57 on 10/07/06
Kevin,
Regarding the Big 12, the question at this point is whether the North will ever recover. I'm nursing a theory that it may not happen and am (only a quarter-seriously) putting together some thoughts as to what the (unlikely) repercussions of that might be. I'm not sure that there is structurally any reason why the Big 12 North should be much better than it is now.
Posted by R. Alex @ 21:43 on 10/07/06
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