Sunday, October 26, 2008

How Do We Get to the Big Dance?

Major brain trust in my apartment last night conversing over the possibilities of the Gators making it to Miami for the big dance. Drunken doctors and Harvard lawyers talking (that's progress, woohoo tort reform!), and others smart enough to avoid grad school, all efforting one question:

How Do The Gators Make it To Miami?

Penn State somehow, somewhere, is being taken seriously. I guess being at the top of a Pop Warner league is tantamount to having accomplished something meaningful in the NCAA. Balderdash! 

What's more, if Penn St. wins out, EPSN anal-cysts declare they would be dancing in South Beach. By the way, I fucking hate it when they say that teams will be playing in South Beach, because we all know that the stadium is closer to Ft. Lauderdale than it is to Miami Beach. 

But whatever. 

Pennsylvania State University. 
For real, dude? 

The Big Ten has no championship game. They have no standing to play in the BCS Championship.  They've already had the Big Ten in the BCS Boogiedown and they've LOST the last two times. It's been proven 2wice over. I implore you, dear voter, don't shut out the SEC because of some misplaced sense of loyalty to some has-been conference or because of some amateurish, non-progressive barometer for college football.

Here's how I see the Gators getting asked to dance:

  1. The Gators meet and beat an undefeated Alabama team in Atlanta. 
Other things need to happen, but a big win in the SEC Championship game over Satan's Tide would do much to convince voters that the real big games come out of the SEC. Granted, we need big wins from here on out. No close games, no fucking up. Big time, sweet-mother-of-God wins are exactly what we need. USC is a nonissue. So is Oklahoma, and your life.

The Big Twelve is the conference everyone is going "ga-ga" over. But anyone who knows anything about collegiate ball knows that a retarded gorilla can gain yards in a conference where, I personally believe, the teams don't practice defense between games. I think that when the season comes to an end, voters will look at the season in whole, and not in a weekly fashion. 

If Alabama beats LSU in a close, epic game and wins out in an impressive manner, and the Gators win out the rest of the way, then the winner of the SEC Championship will-- hopefully-- not be denied a place at the table. 

So, Gators keep winning, Bama keeps winning till they get to the SEC Championship, then Bob's your uncle and we dance.

Got it?

Or

       2. Penn State loses. 

Should God decide not to stop with his quirky, and often unfunny sense of college football humor, the Nittany Lions will win the rest of their schedule. I don't know if Joe Pa and God know each other from the the past, maybe they play bridge or canasta or whatever, but really, this shit's ridonculous. 

But let's say God lays off the smelling salts and the Nittany (whatever the fuck Nittany means is beyond me) Ligers lose to powerhouse Indiana, the mighty Michigan State, or the indomitable Iowa (go iowans! wait? what the frick is iowa?), then voters may actually come to their senses and realize that Penn State doesn't deserve to carry Florida's Jock Straps. 

I believe they can lose, because that's what losers do. Their gameplay is simple. They are a balanced team, but their opponents are generally weak. Put P-State up against a complicated (and working) spread, and they're done-- done, I tell you! Put them up against a defense like the Gators with speed on the edges and intelligent d-backs and they're finished!

Finished!

Anything I left out?

4 comments:

Wall Street Gator said...

We need Penn State to stumble or Texas to lose twice. I think it's hard for us to get in over a 1 loss Texas team (unless it's a bad loss) b/c of who they have played lately (personal thoughts about the veracity of the Big 12 aside, they have chopped down highly ranked opponents). There's an outside shot we get in over an undefeated Penn State team but the Joe Pa sentimental BS will come into play and we'll be on the outside looking in. Personally, my gut tells me that we need some help even if we win out right not...really needed OSU to come up big this weekend but predictably they shit the bed.

Gomer said...

No one likes shit in their bed.

Yes, many things need to happen in order for us to be the belle of the ball.

I can't imagine anyone putting two Big Twelve teams in the dance when there's already a conference championship game. I really believe that if Penn State lose then the only question that remains is which conference champion should get a shot at the Big Twelve champion.

I think in that situation any responsible voter would allow the SEC champion to get a shot. The past will start playing into the equation. People will talk about how Ohio State twice had a shot at the title game and came up nil.

Who knows. If Texas loses once, and has a less-than-convincing win against one of the several over-ranked teams they play, then we dance for sure.

Otherwise, we'll have to wait and see. I love this game.

Anonymous said...

Don't forget that Florida State is currently 6-1 and plays in the weak ACC. We really need them to keep on winning so that we close out the regular season with them being highly ranked.

We obviously need to win out and have the teams ahead of us lose. I want to see which "prominent" analyst is the first to step up and say that a one-loss SEC champion (whoever it may be) is more deserving of a title shot than an undefeated Penn State. That would be courageous.

Gomer said...

Good point. If FSU can break into the top 10 by the time we play them, then that would be super.

Otherwise, I'm content to destroy FL ST whatever their ranking.