Monday, December 04, 2006

Focks is Furious

Needless to say, Michigan alum Focks, is furious today. He feels his Wolverines deserved another crack at Ohio State in the BCS National Championship game, instead of Florida.
I told him during the SEC Championship that he needed Arkansas to win because if Florida won, they would leapfrog UMich in the BCS standings. He said "I will go back to the hospital if that happens. Put that in the blog."
Well it happened, and here's how:
1) Florida did play a tougher schedule. LSU, Tennessee and Arkansas were all better than anyone UMich beat except for Notre Dame.
2) The SEC has been screwed before, undeservedly. The conference usually has 3 or 4 top teams that knock each other down.
3) The BCS computers had nothing to do with it. The computer rankings for Florida and Michigan were an exact tie.
4) Florida won the coaches' poll. One jerk in the Harris Poll gave Florida a #1 vote over Ohio State. But apparently several voters had Florida #5.
5) Ohio State already beat Michigan. Under my theory of one and done, Florida was more deserving seeing as how they hadn't already lost to OSU.

BUT, I think Michigan is the better team. The one thing we never consider when deciding these things, is which team has the better players. We look at wins, losses, momentum, history, coaches and strength of schedule. But we never say "this team has better players than that team." But that is a subjective measure so we have to rely on which team is more deserving based on resume during the season. And that team is Florida.

I'll leave you with this quote from Focks "Bullshit. Michigan is better than Florida. Vegas had michigan 6 point favorites over Florida if they played. I'm done with college football. It's too shady for me."

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