I’d hoped to get last seasons chair winners to do a preseason top 25 apiece for the soon to start season.
I’d do the pick out of 10 and ask for guest slate makers for some weeks, Fl Duck, Melviss, Ghone come to mind for openers.
Pretty much use the same format as last season and award 3 chairs to rank the mythical top 16 at the end.
Before listing, I cut my final pasting from just before final bowls last year:::
teams eliminated by post season bowl losses:
7. WI
10 MI St
14. AR
15. MO
16.VPI
So…. by thread final top 16 that leaves:
1. OR
2. Auburn
3. TCU
6. Stanford
8. Ohio St
13. OK
looks to me like this years’ “screwees” would be Stanford and TCU. I say this because I think Ohio St would have lost to either OSU or Stanford coming out of their bracket, I think Stanford is playing well enough to play with anyone right now. I think OK would have lost to either LSU or Auburn. TCU would have had to face OR in their quarter final bracket and stats say OR wins. (just another ‘belly button’).
SO…
IF AL had not been eliminated by Auburn during the reg season, IMO they would be OR’s opponent in a mythical playoff semifinal, and Auburn would have to face Stanford on the other side (just imagine that Duck, lol)
Frankly having seen everything to date, those could very well be the 4 very best teams in 1a ball right now.
Oh well, ifs and buts.
To make everything nice and tidy and to provide grist for the major college blah blah mill, I would envision OR and TCU tied for a separate REGULAR SEASON TITLE CROWN, with O having a shot at validating and emphatically reiterating that status in a spot in the PLAYOFF TOURNAMENT NC game versus Auburn.
To me that makes Stanford the victim of the biggest screwing because I am not sure Auburn could beat them in our thread format semifinal. Not to alienate anyone I also think a healthy AL team would be a serious test for OR on the other bracket side.
To me it is just as conceivable that OR and Stanford could have had a rematch in a playoff title game; or likewise with Auburn vs AL having the same sort of scenario if thay had won through their brackets.
I don’t want to offend anyone, but I just arbitrarily see TCU being discarded and OR handling OK or Ohio St to make it through.
I think I am dreaming here.
Imagine that…..
PLAYOFFS !!!!!
Week 1, 2011
1) Villanova @ Temple
2) TCU @ Baylor
3) Northwestern @ Boston College
4) Delaware @ Navy
5) BYU @ Ol Miss
6) Boise St @ UGA
7) USF @ ND
LSU vs Oregon
9) CO @ Hawaii
10) UCLA @ Houston
Tie Breaker:
James Madison @ VPI (and TOTAL POINTS scored)