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Are you playing in the Bowl Pickem Challenge we have going at FunOfficePools.com. Well, you are in luck! The ever entertaining and mostly right Adam Jones from JonesTopTen.com has released his Bowl Preview. With 35 bowls on the slate, this is a little long. That being said, grab a cup of coffee and sit back and read his preview for a few laughs and a little insight on the upcoming bowls.
The Bowl Championship Series is broken down into three components (Harris Poll, USA Today Poll, & the six computer polls) to determine the two teams playing for the national championship. If these are the components that breakdown the BCS, then the typical questions from the majority of college fans would be what are the six computer rankings, who are the people from the Harris Poll, & which coaches are from the USA Today Coaches Poll? Out of three components, the six computer polls is the only component that doesn’t play any bias factors, provides tons of math equations, no influence on opinions or assumptions, or margin of victory. Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Jeff Sagarin, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, & Dr. Peter Wolfe are the six computer polls who provide a major significance in determining the two teams playing for the national championship.
Author: Adam Jones. Adam is the author of Rose Bowl Dreams and a friend of CFTT in which he has contributed a previous article. Further, Adam is the author of Jones Top Ten, a blog which has been telling “The Truth about College Football since 1995.”
Adam Comments: Many of you know that I occasionally contribute to a site run by a loosely affiliated group of verbal anarchists called Barking Carnival –it is a “Texas site” but regularly covers college football as a whole. My piece today commented specifically on Mack Brown, but more generally about how, historically, the game is unkind even to the best of coaches. Enjoy (or delete if you prefer…): A Remembrance of Things Past, and a reminder that things don’t last I wrote the following in the Jones Top Ten this week:
Texas and Florida are headed to the same place for very different reasons. While I fully believe that Urban Meyer has lost his passion for the game, in Mack Brown’s case, the evidence mounts that the game has simply passed him by. Impossible for a coach whose team played for a national title ten months ago? On the surface maybe, but college football history suggests otherwise.
It bears a fuller explanation. Not only do I believe the above statement is true, I also believe we are at the end of this Texas string, which has, at times, been glorious and has almost always been marked by excellent football.
TCU will be starting the upcoming football season ranked #6 according to the Associated Press. The top 5 teams from the AP Polls are Alabama, Ohio State, Boise State, Florida and Texas. This is the highest pre-season ranking in school history. TCU’s previous pre-season high was #7 during the 1956 AP polls. Last year, the Horned Frogs became the Mountain West Conference champions as they finished 12-1 overall, 8-0 in the conference. Their only loss coming to hands of the Boise State Broncos in Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. They finished in top-10 for second straight season and third time in the last five years.
With all the accolades accomplished last year by the Horned Frogs, they still know there is unfinished business to get done. This year’s unfinished business is to win the national championship. The Horned Frogs average over 450 yards a game ranking them in top 10, while averaging nearly close to 240 rushing yards a game ranking them fifth nation, and averaging over 38 points a game. What scary about this offense is number of players returning for this year. TCU’s returns four lineman, three receivers, two running backs and quarterback. Balance is the key to the success on offense. They had four players who rushed for over 500 yards which includes quarterback, Andy Dalton rushing 512 yards. Dalton’s 29 wins ties Sammy Baugh for the most school wins in school history. He threw for 2,756 yards, completing nearly 62 percent of his passes with 23 touchdowns. [Read more...]
It’s that time of the year—when members of the media, annual publications and fans are all on the same page (or so they think): on who will be No.1 team in college football for the coming season.
Some selectors have been making choices for over 50 years; others as few as 10; all have a say-so and not all have been completely accurate with their choices for a given year.
With the temperatures hovering around the 90s and higher this summer; think back to a January evening when the University of Alabama won its most recent College Football title.
The scoreboard clock had barely clicked 0:00 and with confetti flowing from the Rose Bowl rafters like rain…a thought turned into faint whisper—that could be heard above all the celebration.
McElroy returns for 'Bama
