Archive - NCAA 2008

Different story, same ending

January 12 4 Comments Category: NCAA 2008

The Oklahoma Sooners made it to their seventh BCS Bowl game and fourth National Championship game in the last seven years, but the ending was yet another repetitious reminder that since 2003, BCS Bowl games have not been a good place for the Sooners and their fans. But then again, they hardly had a chance [...]

Bowling for Mediocrity

January 02 0 Comments Category: NCAA 2008

A retarded monkey would have more success picking bowl game winners than me. Going into the second day of the year, I’m something like 9 – 15 picking against the spread, but then again, I did pick Hawaii to beat Notre Dame, and BC to beat Vandy… oops. My most shining moment thus far was [...]

Be thou at peace

December 04 0 Comments Category: NCAA 2008

In the final week of the regular season, now would be a natural time to sit back and reflect on where we started and what happened to make things end the way they did. But it’s way too premature for that, as conference title games are played, bowl bids are worked out, and the end [...]

45 – 35 < 33 – 39, 65 – 21, and 61 – 41

November 30 0 Comments Category: NCAA 2008

Around 3:30 p.m. Central on Sunday afternoon, Texas got shafted by the BCS. Had they not, Oklahoma would have been shafted by the BCS. No matter what happened, someone got shafted. Don’t like it? You can thank the Big XII Commissioner, and every other commissioner that keeps voting to keep the BCS system in place. [...]