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Te'o's Tale Really Is No Great Mystery

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:44:00 +0000

The media pundits are confounded (now there's a shock). The talking heads on various sports gab shows expressed utter confusion on the Manti Te'o fake dead girlfriend saga. They want to point fingers, but are too perplexed by all the spin cascading out of Twitter. That's where we come in. You have questions? We have answers. The 10 things you're just dying to know about the best tale coming out of South Bend since "Rudy" (yeah, that one was mostly fake, too): 1. Why is the Te'o Hoax the...

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Alabama Still No.1, Unanimously (Sort Of)

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:48:00 +0000

For the first time, at the urging of a few readers, the Guru is putting together a Simulated BCS Standings at the conclusion of the postseason. Besides addressing the faux outcry about how Notre Dame still finished first in one of the computer ratings, we also wanted to deal with ineligible teams and where they would've finished in the standings. * Because the Harris Poll doesn't publish season-ending standings, we used the AP Poll as the stand-in. And also, since Ohio State and Penn State...

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The Guru's BlogPoll Ballot (Final)

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:20:00 +0000

The Guru's final BlogPoll ballot for 2012, with notes below: BCS Guru Ballot - Week 15 Rank Team Delta 1 Alabama Crimson Tide 4 2 Oregon Ducks 1 3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish -2 4 Ohio St. Buckeyes -2 5 Texas A&M Aggies 5 6 ...

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Win or Lose, Notre Dame Already Won Big

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:19:00 +0000

No matter what happens Monday night in the BCS championship game against Alabama, Notre Dame will be the big winner for 2012, and many more years to come. Call it the luck of the Irish if you want, but they could not have picked a better time to put together a dream season. As recently as the end of last season, it was legitimate to question whether Notre Dame was even relevant. Squeezed out - on its own volition, no less - of the mad conference realignment money-grab, Notre Dame has...

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College Football With an NFL Flavor

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:55:00 +0000

What if college football was, say, organized like the National Football League? With the sport's powers-that-be rapidly moving toward another segregation of the haves and have-nots - just like when Division I football was split into I-A and I-AA in 1978 - the days of the super conferences hoarding just about every last dollar to themselves will be upon us soon enough. They have the power and the clout to ditch the NCAA if they want to. So what if they did and formed a super division of...

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Pac-12 Conference: BCS's Weakest Link

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:19:00 +0000

It's easy to take shots at the woebegone Big East. The conference is being picked apart by vultures from Chicago to Greensboro. It's a year away from being sent from the first-class cabin to steerage aboard the HMS BCS. It's now even not above begging schools in Greenville and Fresno to take up membership. But you know something? When it comes to playing against the big boys in the bowl season, the Big East has more than held its own. In fact, over the past three seasons, the Big East had...

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College Football's Real God: Almighty TV

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:56:00 +0000

While the Big East scrambles to stave off its imminent collapse, whether it's by enticing Fresno State and UNLV to join up or begging UConn and Cincinnati to stay put, it can make no tangible promises because there's no TV dollars to back any such pledge. Basically, the Big East blew it by not locking down a good TV deal when the going was good. Television money is now the lifeblood of college sports - specifically college football, which has become the second-most valuable property to...

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Boise State's Very Big Move

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 06:01:00 +0000

On the face of it, all the conference realignment action seems to have shaken up the college football landscape. But if you take a closer look, you'll notice that all the moving around really just amounted to rearranging the same deck chairs. In 2006, when the BCS entered its second phase to include five bowls and increase their accessibility by non-automatic qualifying conference members, there were six AQ conferences (plus Notre Dame) consisting of 66 teams. By 2014, if nothing else...

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The End of the Big East

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:28:00 +0000

It's been said that the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman and not much of an empire. Kinda like the modern-day Big East Conference. And the Big East, as a football power conference, is about to join the Holy Roman Empire in the ash heap of history. The seven non-football members of the Big East are expected to pull out - maybe as soon as next week - leaving a rump conference constituted of basically members of Conference USA, circa 2004. While the BCS likely will keep the Big...

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Handicapping the 16-Team Playoff Field

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:07:00 +0000

If it's the third week of December, it must be time for the 16-team FBS playoffs. The selection committee has made its at-large selections, now it's just a matter of putting together the matchups of the eight first-round games. (OK, this is a dream-world scenario, though we can't take full credit for this format. This 16-team playoff setup was made famous by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter and Jeff Passan in their bestseller, Death to the BCS.) By rule, each of the 11 FBS conference champions...

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Gene Smith's BCS-Saving Blunder

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:32:00 +0000

If Alabama goes on to defeat Notre Dame to win back-to-back BCS championships, the first person Nick Saban should thank, upon receiving the crystal ball, isn't the players, coaches, fans or even God. It's Gene Smith, Ohio State's athletic director. The same goes for Bill Hancock, executive director of the BCS. If not for the one fateful decision by the otherwise brilliant Ohio State athletic director, we could be talking about the mother of all BCS controversies. Where, exactly,...

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The Guru's BlogPoll Ballot (Final Regular Season)

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:33:00 +0000

The Guru's BlogPoll ballot, with notes below: BCS Guru Ballot - Week 14 Rank Team Delta 1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish -- 2 Ohio St. Buckeyes -- 3 Oregon Ducks -- 4 Florida Gators 1 5 Alabama Crimson Tide 1 6 Kansas St. Wildcats ...

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Why ESPN Is So Mad at NIU

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Northern Illinois earned a BCS bowl berth. The outrage! There was so much piling on during the ESPN show unveiling the BCS bowl selections that it could've easily been mistaken for a post-election program dissecting the Romney campaign. The vitriol directed toward Northern Illinois was overflowing to the point that it became must-see TV when Huskies quarterback Jordan Lynch was then invited to address the esteemed panel. Luckily, as the only adult among all involved, Lynch bit his tongue...

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Just a Bit Short for Northern Illinois

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 06:18:00 +0000

It came down to one play in the SEC championship game that decided who got to play Notre Dame in the BCS championship game. As for the last BCS bowl berth, it will come down to a few votes. In the least surprising BCS decision in some time, Alabama earned a spot in the BCS title game after winning a de facto playoff semifinal against Georgia. It'll be the Tide's second consecutive appearance in the championship game and their third in four years. Nick Saban also will be going for a record...

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Will Kent State Crash BCS Party?

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:24:00 +0000

Should a team that got blown out by Kentucky get a BCS bowl berth? That's the burning question - not who's No. 1 or No. 2 - from the latest BCS standings. Kent State is on the precipice of becoming the first MAC team to land a BCS bid. At No. 17, the Golden Flashes need to move up just one spot in next week's final standings to secure a huge payday for their conference. But should they get a spot? Does a team that accounted for Kentucky's only victory over an FBS team this season be playing...

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The Guru's BlogPoll Ballot (Week 13)

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:08:00 +0000

The Guru's BlogPoll ballot, with notes below: BCS Guru Ballot - Week 13 Rank Team Delta 1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish -- 2 Ohio St. Buckeyes -- 3 Oregon Ducks -- 4 Georgia Bulldogs -- 5 Florida Gators -- 6 Alabama Crimson Tide ...

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Ho-Hum Goes the BCS

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 07:04:00 +0000

So much for BCS chaos. For the first time in the history of the BCS, we know who'll be in the championship game even before the final weekend of the season. One team has already punched its ticket for the Jan. 7 game in Miami and the other will be decided on the field straight-up as if it were a semifinal game. Just like how they do it in the No Fun League. Instead of traffic bombs and all-night Twitter chatter, we can all hit the hay at about 8 p.m. ET next Saturday, secure in knowing...

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BCS Chaos for Split Championship

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:53:00 +0000

While there are still two more weeks to produce some BCS chaos, let's not overlook the fact that one team on nobody's radar could be locking up a share of the national championship as soon as next week. Ohio State might be out-of-sight, out-of-mind as far as the BCS is concerned, it's very much alive to win the AP national championship, which is every bit as prestigious as the BCS one. The Buckeyes, currently ranked fourth in the AP poll, is one of only two unbeaten teams left in the...

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The Guru's BlogPoll Ballot (Week 12)

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:24:00 +0000

This week's BlogPoll ballot, with notes below: BCS Guru Ballot - Week 12 Rank Team Delta 1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 2 2 Ohio St. Buckeyes 2 3 Oregon Ducks -2 4 Georgia Bulldogs 1 5 Florida Gators 1 6 Alabama Crimson Tide ...

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You Can't Spell BCS Without SEC

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:26:00 +0000

This is why when the going gets tough, the tough schedules Western Carolina (or Georgia Southern, or Jacksonville State, or Wofford, or Sam Houston State). The only conference that has the BCS figured out is going to be in the championship game for a seventh consecutive year - and possibly an all-SEC final for a second straight season. After Saturday night's unthinkable evisceration of the previous top two teams in the BCS standings, that's the only near-sure thing we have. An SEC team...

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Fiesta and Rose Fighting Over Irish?

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Notre Dame's brand name might not be enough to get it into the national championship game (you heard that right, Lou Holtz), but it still has plenty pull when it come time for BCS bowls to make their picks. Despite appearances - that No. 3 Notre Dame is closer to No. 2 Oregon than Oregon is to No. 1 Kansas State in the latest BCS standings - there is no chance for the Irish to catch either team without needing a loss from them. The Irish have maxed out their computer scores at .990...

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The Guru's BlogPoll Ballot (Week 11)

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:02:00 +0000

The Guru's BlogPoll ballot, with notes below: BCS Guru Ballot - Week 11 Rank Team Delta 1 Oregon Ducks 1 2 Kansas St. Wildcats 1 3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1 4 Ohio St. Buckeyes 1 5 Georgia Bulldogs 1 6 Florida Gators ...

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How Is Mike Slive Going to Fix This Mess?

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:07:00 +0000

Johnny Manziel and Kevin Sumlin ought to remember that when somebody is nice enough to invite you to their party, you shouldn't go to their house breaking all the crystals and throwing furniture into the pool. That, essentially is what Texas A&M just did to Alabama in particular and the SEC in general. The Aggies' upset victory at Bryant-Denny Stadium put their new conference perilously close to missing out on the BCS title game for the first time in seven years. In tomorrow's BCS...

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Who's Going to Get BCS's Millions?

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:26:00 +0000

Let's forget the Oregon-vs.-Kansas State narrative for a moment because there will be plenty of time to dissect that to pieces in the coming weeks. Nothing has really changed since our projections yesterday pretty much covered all the bases. But besides the coveted two spots for the BCS championship game, there are four other BCS bowls with lucrative payouts. Money, you see, is the lifeblood of college sports (please take a moment to purge all the NCAA "student-athlete" propaganda...

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The Guru's BlogPoll Ballot (Week 10)

noreply@blogger.com (Samuel Chi) — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 05:01:00 +0000

The Guru's BlogPoll ballot, with notes below: BCS Guru Ballot - Week 10 Rank Team Delta 1 Alabama Crimson Tide -- 2 Oregon Ducks -- 3 Kansas St. Wildcats -- 4 Notre Dame Fighting Irish -- 5 Ohio St. Buckeyes -- 6 Georgia...

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