I must be in the minority as I prefer college football over the NFL. Perhaps that's a result of growing up a Bengals fan but I just prefer the college game, I started counting down the days til the first game of the season from about 100 days out.

 

I'm with you, not really preferring one over the other. I enjoy watching college and NFL football equally.

The game should have been played last Tuesday to end the bowl season.

I thought I read that the bowl games attendance was down again this season overall.

Bowl games, sure. There are 742 of them at last count and those are all just about sponsorship recognition and not the games themselves.

Did it have something to do with what day New Year's Day fell on? After the BCS Championship started did they just used to have the game so many days after New Year's?

 

I'll bet that was it.

I do not think any one can shocked at this fans more fans then not did not want to see snoozefest two and these numbers back that up.

I do not think anyone can shock at this fans more fans than not did not want to see snooze fest two and these numbers back that up.

You don't watch us play much :lol:

 

You guys won by an average margin of 41.5 points per game this season. Unless your an alumnus or have a son playing for the Rocks, I don't think you can really call those exciting football games.

Maybe the other teams just need to practice harder.

 

Teams have to figure out a way to combat the speed of the SEC defensive lines. I still say that the team best equipped to do that is Boise State. They are used to it every time they play a really good BCS team. The OU's, Texas, and Ohio States of the world have the best athletes in their conference bar none and do not see a big change unless they play the SEC elite. Every time Boise is on the field against a big boy they have an athletic disadvantage IMO. Teams that are not in the SEC need to focus more on the fundamentals rather than styles of play that will not hold up against a superior team.

 

Oregon's style of play would hurt an SEC team if they could get started early enough running the ball. However, it took them until late in the game against Auburn last year to get the offense moving. OU's smoke in mirrors gave UF fits for about 2 1/2 quarters but it couldn't be sustained. OKState's style of play was similar to Oregon's, though I do not believe they were as good as last year's Ducks. Had they played last night, they may have made enough plays to win or may have been completely ran off the field. Boise beats the big boys by playing a very fundamentally sound game, and by creating space with their offense. It is sound football that works at all levels. If you want a good title game give a good Boise team a shot at the SEC champ IMO, and I'm not joking.

 

NFL equals boring and vanilla vs. vanilla.

 

How was that different than last night? Here were Bama's calls, 1st down play action boot/roll-out to the flat, with power & inside zone to follow. LSU had bubble screen, power, maybe and iso-type play and the quick game.

You guys won by an average margin of 41.5 points per game this season. Unless your an alumnus or have a son playing for the Rocks, I don't think you can really call those exciting football games.

 

:lol:

 

Rock(as in Shamrocks, Trinity)Pride is his name.

Teams have to figure out a way to combat the speed of the SEC defensive lines. I still say that the team best equipped to do that is Boise State. They are used to it every time they play a really good BCS team. The OU's, Texas, and Ohio States of the world have the best athletes in their conference bar none and do not see a big change unless they play the SEC elite. Every time Boise is on the field against a big boy they have an athletic disadvantage IMO. Teams that are not in the SEC need to focus more on the fundamentals rather than styles of play that will not hold up against a superior team.

 

Oregon's style of play would hurt an SEC team if they could get started early enough running the ball. However, it took them until late in the game against Auburn last year to get the offense moving. OU's smoke in mirrors gave UF fits for about 2 1/2 quarters but it couldn't be sustained. OKState's style of play was similar to Oregon's, though I do not believe they were as good as last year's Ducks. Had they played last night, they may have made enough plays to win or may have been completely ran off the field. Boise beats the big boys by playing a very fundamentally sound game, and by creating space with their offense. It is sound football that works at all levels. If you want a good title game give a good Boise team a shot at the SEC champ IMO, and I'm not joking.

 

 

 

How was that different than last night? Here were Bama's calls, 1st down play action boot/roll-out to the flat, with power & inside zone to follow. LSU had bubble screen, power, maybe and iso-type play and the quick game.

 

 

Good breakdown but I was making a joke on the whole to be like Highlands you need to practice harder mantra that was a running joke for a while.

The game should have been played last Tuesday to end the bowl season.

 

Exactly. :thumb:

 

Better yet, it should have been New Year's Day. All that hemming and hawing goes on from defenders of the current system about "the tradition of the bowls," yet the most traditional of all bowl days -- New Year's Day -- is all but meaningless.

Exactly. :thumb:

 

Better yet, it should have been New Year's Day. All that hemming and hawing goes on from defenders of the current system about "the tradition of the bowls," yet the most traditional of all bowl days -- New Year's Day -- is all but meaningless.

 

No way that college football was going to play all its big bowl games on New Year's Day in direct competition with the NFL schedule.

No way that college football was going to play all its big bowl games on New Year's Day in direct competition with the NFL schedule.

 

They would if college FB had kept its traditions intact instead of making the cash grab by spreading out the games, and doubling the number of games, rendering the bowl season into an insufferable bore in the process.

They would if college FB had kept its traditions intact instead of making the cash grab by spreading out the games, and doubling the number of games, rendering the bowl season into an insufferable bore in the process.

 

No way that would work. The college games would get killed in the ratings and attendence going up against NFL games on a Sunday. It might work in other years but when New Year's Day falls on a Sunday they have no choice but to play the games later.

No way that would work. The college games would get killed in the ratings and attendence going up against NFL games on a Sunday. It might work in other years but when New Year's Day falls on a Sunday they have no choice but to play the games later.

 

Perhaps. But I would be curious to know how those ratings shook out in the old days when New Year's Day fell on Sundays. And besides, if tradition matters as much as supporters of the current system say in their defense of the bowls, TV ratings shouldn't matter and should instead take a back seat to tradition.

Perhaps. But I would be curious to know how those ratings shook out in the old days when New Year's Day fell on Sundays. And besides, if tradition matters as much as supporters of the current system say in their defense of the bowls, TV ratings shouldn't matter and should instead take a back seat to tradition.

 

That's a very quaint and very unrealistic viewpoint. In today's environment the NFL is king as Sunday's 26 share for the Broncos-Steelers game shows. Also, most colleges depend on their football programs to help support the rest of their athletic programs. Without the ratings the bowls don't get the sponsorships to make the payouts to the teams. Those are just the facts. You're venturing very close to becoming a "get off my lawn" grumpy old man...