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« Reply #37 on 12/29/2004 at 11:04am » | [Quote] [Modify] [Delete] |
Again, if "the fix was in," and the voters were indeed able to be so conspicuously manipulated, then why are we supposed to believe that their initial ranking(s) of Cal were worth the paper they were printed on...have fun interpreting the abstract science that is "pollster logic" and thinking that you can actually use it to formulate a cogent argument...remove the AP from the equation and tell everyone how much closer Cal finishes to Texas...
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 Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:09 pm |
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Quote: Again, if "the fix was in," and the voters were indeed able to be so conspicuously manipulated, then why are we supposed to believe that their initial ranking(s) of Cal were worth the paper they were printed on...
We don't. You really seem to be missing the point. Texas MAY HAVE been more worthy than Cal, but how it happened was beyond suspicious, there was clearly some hanky-panky going on. The coaches' polls has always had a conflict of interest, and have some notable times where it's voting was really bad but what happened here is that the voting was manipulated and a valuable bowl went to the Big 12. That's clearly worth raising an eyebrow over.
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:54 pm |
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If you've actually followed college football for any significant length of time, then why are you raising an eyebrow? Happened before, will happen again...
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:28 pm |
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Quote: If you've actually followed college football for any significant length of time, then why are you raising an eyebrow? Happened before, will happen again...
While voting patterns have been suspicious in the past, this time the voting was manipulated in order to put a team into a big money bowl. That's borderline corruption there.
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:55 pm |
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If you really think about it, college football already was the manifestation of corruption, but where to begin...
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Texas gained 50 on Cal that week and only 12 was due to Cal losing points, the week after Cal gained 108 while Texas only gained 53 for a net 55 Cal gain. Those 12 were less than they gained from Utah the week both were idle. Its not that big a deal.
Who is complaining about Auburn gaining 34 on OU the previous week on a straight swap of 17 votes from OU to Auburn?
The whole Cal belly-aching is just ridiculous. I understand Cal and their fans being disappointed, but the media people are just idiots. They are supposed to be experts but don't pay attention to the facts. And the computer experts were expecting Texas to pass Cal several weeks before the end of the season. It shouldn't have been a surprise to the media. It was widely discussed on the Texas boards. And remember-Cal won in the polls!
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:59 am |
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Is this thread dead now?
The real surprise was that Cal led in the first quarter. I figured they would come out flat. It was the 2nd and 3rd quarter when they got outscored 31-3.
The BCS is a lousy system. But Cal doesn't have any more gripes than a lot of teams over the years.
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:52 am |
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dogsncocks | | | Re: Why is Cal not in the Rose Bowl?
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Right! Call it the Kansas State Syndrone. Teams that feel they deserved something higher, then get regulated to a lesser bowl are primed to get upset.
However, attitude plays into the mix, and it is up to the coaching to get the max out of them if they can.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:51 pm |
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Mack Brown had a few flashbacks too. He made the comment that the same thing had happened to him.
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<<Mack Brown had a few flashbacks too. He made the comment that the same thing had happened to him.>>
Texas was rather dissappointed to be in the Cotton Bowl and few years back against Arkansas and got badly outplayed. Also, when they lost to CU in the Big 12 championship game (a win probably would have landed them in the Rose Bowl vs. Miami instead of Nebraska), they played poorly in the Holiday Bowl against Oregon St. (?-maybe Oregon). In another Holiday Bowl they fell badly behind vs. Washington before Major Applewhite helped pull it out at the end. They were hardly inspired last year in the Holiday vs. Washington St. as the offense looked very rusty and the receivers kept on dropping passes.
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:42 am |
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I guess I just never viewed a Mack Brown Texas team having as precipitous of a collapse as that 1998 Kansas State team...they still finished #3 in the BCS even after the double-OT loss to A&M...higher than an Ohio State team that had well-publicized "co-championship" aspirations going into the Sugar Bowl...Kansas State was passed over by two three-loss teams, with Texas and Nebraska going to the Cotton and Holiday, respectively, and then lost to a four-loss Purdue team (did not play Michigan or Ohio State) in the Alamo (granted, the score was 37-34)...
I guess Mack Brown's closest brush would have been in 2001...but even then, the Big XII championship game was played in the immediate aftermath of a Tennessee victory at Florida...the 2001 Holiday Bowl was the one they actually won, with a Applewhite-led comeback against 8-3 Washington...the 1999 team had a victory over Nebraska, but also had four losses entering the Cotton Bowl...the 2000 team was 9-2 and the Cotton Bowl chose a 10-3 Kansas State team (two losses to Oklahoma) and avoided the "three-peat"...
Perhaps the most "slighted" Mack Brown team was North Carolina 1997, which finished 10-1 and was coached in the Gator Bowl (42-3 win over 7-4 Virginia Tech) by Carl Torbrush...even if Tennessee had lost to Auburn in that abysmal SEC championship game, it was widely speculated that Auburn would have faced 9-2 UCLA (undue beneficiary of a 66-3 win over Texas?) in the Sugar Bowl...
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