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Not quite 1993

Dated a girl from Nebraska way back when. Lovely girl - she was my First Love and all that goes with that. Do wonder from time to time whatever happened to her(though I know what she's has to be doing tonite) - but past is past. As w. all relationships, things that mattered to her became concerns of mine. She was a massive fan of the NEbraska huskers football team - and, in a fashion, so did I. Even went to a game in Fall of 1990 - they were playing Northern Illinois, so, well, I of course rooted for alma mater #2. But, generally, I rooted hard for them even after Q and I broke up. So, in the 1993 season, when they were playing Florida State in a bowl game (after the Irish had beaten Colorado) I was totally going for Nebraska - both for Notre Dames sake (hopeless dream - we really needed a playoff that year) and for Nebraska.

The next year Nebraska did the unbelievable - they beat up hated Miami in the Orange Bowl and won the national Championship. This was after Q and I stopped talking (we'd talk again) for a few years or so and so while i celebrated, i also celebrated for m old love. They went on to win three of four national championships in a row, but by then i was tired of the team. They were a delight as an underdog - but generally I got tired of them.

Well, tonite I am a Nebraska fan once again. This time, its that old campaign that I have foremost in mind - the NEED for a NCAA Division 1 Footaball Playoff. beginning of the day, there were six undeafeated teams. Two played each other - 'Bama downing #1 Florida. Nebraska, 9-3, plays Texas (12-0). Then comes three 'lessor' teams - TCU, Cincinnati, and Boise State. If Nebraska beats Texas, that means Alabama will be the obvious #1 team going into the bowl season - but the other three undefeated teams all have a claim to play 'Bama in the so called "National Championship Game". The last two years I felt that a roll of the dice would have as much claim to legitimacy as the teams paired in the "National Championship Game" - and if Nebraska can upset Texas, then I feel that this years claim that somehow the two teams matched up in the so called "National Championship Game" once again is a sham.

Funny - the last few years I wanted ALL of the undefeated teams to lose, totally muddying the waters. This year, my tac has been to keep several teams undefeated - which means that w. a Nebraska win, there is one clear team that desrves a high ranking - but three others that have equal claims to play in the final game. Lets go Huskers!

We'll get a playoff system for the NCAA Div. 1 sometime. Makes too much sense. Fuckheads who clamour to keep the bowl system as is really remind me of the Birthers and anti HealthCare reform people. We must progress.

Oh, and as the NCAA season is coming to a close, we all know what we can expect soon - the DCS 16 team playoff matchups show on the DCS network. It'll be good.

See 2008

See 2007

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We take note of L.S.U.'s win against Ohio State in the final bowl game of the 2007 NCAA season. We also note that they can now claim the 'mythical' college championship for this year. Too bad they can't ACTUALLY claim the 2007 NCAA championship, because there is no way to fairly claim the championship these days.

But maybe babysteps are on the way. The important news is not the result of one of the bowl games, no matter how highly touted as a "championship", but rather the possibilty of a four team" after the bowls" playoff. Not exactly what the public needs and deserves - @ least 16 teams, please- but a start.

the dcs selection show

This here's the first dcs selection show for the Revolutionary Workers International People's College Football Tournement.

We had to fite for this. And yes, that's Chemical Man in the role of a lifetime.

I worked a long time on this. Please let it run the entire 5m.

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There will be no Extra Point
Written by Le Roux

For this post, I had all sorts of hostile accusations, bitter dununciations, and other arguments and asides denounciung the BCS sorta shit, but the final day of the year came through for us= in effect, the BCS dug it's own grave this year.

So, going into the Saturday, we were hoping for an Oklahoma win over #1 Missouri in the Big 12 title game and a Pittsburgh win over #2 West Virginia. I figured that Oklahoma would win, but only the tenor of the season so far would give anybody hope for a Pitt win.

So, imagine our deep excitement in the dcs circuits Saturday nite watching the updates on the Pitt- West Virginia game during the Oklahoma- especially with it 13-7 late. Having both of these games go the way we wanted them was insanely great. And, to top it all off, Hawaii finished undeafeated.

So, gloat we will. One loss Ohio State and two loss L.S.U. are in the "Championship" game for the BCS. And we ask:
What about Oklahoma, also only TWO LOSSES? Ditto Georgia, Virginia Tech, USC, and Missouri?
What about Kansas, with ONE LOSS?
And I'll even say: What about Hawaii, with NO LOSSES?

If the regular season means so much, how come the one and only team to survive it UNDEFEATED is not playing in the BCS title game?

Because the BCS SUCKS. And after seeing what this wreck-shit offers us this year and years and years before, we are now petitioning the NCAA to fix the system and stop cheating us out of our football season. Fuck the fat cat tourist travel representives
who are the only people who want the bowl system the way it is.

We want it fixed, and we what it now.

To-morrow= the Bowl Anarchy Society switches to it's post revolutionary organizational name, the People's Revolutionary Football Playoff System will reveal it's playoff system, and on Wednesday, be prepared for the dcs show detailing the picks. Rumours has it that Comrade Mustberger will be involved.

Viva la Revolution!!

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written by Le Roux

It's come down to the last week of the season, and our hopes for a clear cut picture that exactly shows how bankrupt the BCS system is doesn't seem likely. Unless there is @ least one major upset next week, the lap dogs in the NCAA will attempt to claim victory for its shit caked system. However, there has now been 12 upsets of a top 5 team by an unranked opponent SO FAR this year, so we still watch with interest.

There were two major upsets this weekend. The major one, of course, was the triple OT 50-48 Arkansas win over then #1 LSU. With 2 losses, it seems LSU has no argument for the title game....unless.... The other 'upset' was less major- former #1 USC beat former #7 Arizona State, giving them two losses. They also are out....unless...... And the best game of the weekend was the Big 12 North match up that lead to now 11-1 Missouri beating formerly undefeated Kansas. That leaves four teams with one loss, although West Virginia and Missouri play a last game next week.

Our hopes depend on the outcomes of these two games. Unranked Pittsburgh -v- AP#2 West Virginia is the most important, and boy do we need an upset. West Virginia, like Ohio State, has no conference championship game. Unless they lose to Pitt next week, we are stuck with a title game of Ohio State and West Virginia. The other game is the Big 12 title game between Missouri and Oklahoma (10-2). Both games start around 7pm Saturday nite, and by 11 we should know.

What the Bowl Anarchy Society are hoping for this last weekend is a massive Pitt upset of West Virginia. If this unlikely event happens, then we hope that Oklahoma beats Missouri in the Big 12 title game. This will give us two teams- Ohio State and Kansas- with one loss. Since Kansas didn't even play in their conferences title game, that will tarnish the BCS game. However, if West Virginia wins, our only hope is to claim "What about Kansas?" and the ultimate card= what about Hawaii ??

Hopefully, it will not come to that. But we are ready to deal with the BCS by any means necessary.

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On Friday, I will run a special pre- conference championship Bowl Anarchy Society. Here is where I will outline my plan for the NCAA 16 team playoff the good people of America deserves. Next Monday I will return again with the matchups..... that the good people of America deserve.

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Written by Le Roux

The sys tem

Fuck it- the current way of crowning a NCAA football champion suxx, and it should be done in with w/ a playoff system to determine a champion- just like every other level of football in college- and in high school- and in grammer school- and just like EVERY OTHER SPORT IN AMERICA. For me, there is no credibility in NCAA Division 1 football, since the champion is never decided on the field. For me, the current system is like throwing dice- the champion under the BCS system is the one of two teams who gets selected by a variety of sports writers and computers programs. There is no way of determining the true champion in a really unfettered way until everyone wises up and flushes the BCS into the sewer.

For monetary reasons - or whatever other excuses the BCS fools have managed to sadly create the current 'manufactured consent' in the public - we get stuck with this fucking crap. Enough. Lets determine the champion through palying, and not via the computer.

This week end

Well, what am I supposed to say? I'm scared? Maybe. Two great upsets this weekend. I love it-but there is a downside. The upsets may give a "Weapons of Mass Destruction" type dishonest arguing point to the Jokers who tout the BCS when there happens to be only two teams that seem to be the absolute best. With so many upsets this year, there may be just two teams with one or none losses this year that the fools can point to and say "HEY- BCS WORKS". Never. BCS is a deeply rotten system held aloft only by the various bowl committees who want it to cntinue.

But I'll also admit, that for our purposes, the revolutionaries in The Bowl Anarchy Society were resplendent with joy over the dual upsets this weekend: AP #2 Oregon lost on Thursday nite to Arizona 34-24, and on Saturday Nite Texas Tech ran up a huge lead in the first half and held on over AP #3 Oklahoma. Oregon and Oklahoma now have two losses, and that dwindles the field of possible national contenders to six........or is it eight? We love the fact that there has been deep anarchy @ the top of the college football polls, and we hope it continues to show up the BCS bowl system as the piece of shit fakery to real competition that it has always been.

Well, what am I supposed to say? I'm scared that the WMD crowd can continue their manufacturing ? Maybe. But I'll also admit, that for our purposes, The Bowl Anarchy Society were happy over the dual upsets this weekend: AP #2 Oregon lost on Thursday nite to Arizona 34-24, and on Saturday Nite Texas tech ran up a huge lead in the first half and held on over #3 Oklahoma. Oregon and Oklahoma now have two losses, and that dwindles the field of possible national contenders to six........or is it eight? We love the fact that there has been deep anarchy @ the top of the college football polls, and we hope it continues to show up the BCS bowl system as the piece of shit fakery to real competition that it has always been.

If you want the truth, I think the best two are LSU and Ohio State. And, if upsets continue, they may meet for the one off BCS championship. But more likely, it may produce an LSU -v- Missouri or West Virginia. If that happens, fuck all of you who keep this rot alive. The BCS and its crowd deserves it.

Me? I'm hoping for that dual championsip to yet again rear its lovely head. But you know what? Just like 50m people voted for Bush in 2004- Americans, believe it or not, voted for that guy- there will be similar types who keep insisting that BCS is the way to go.

I want a true national champion- not whatever two teams the computers have attempted to manufacture consent over.

Next Week

On Thursday, #7 Arizona State (9-1) plays still dangerous USC, and I believe USC will win. AP #2 Kansas and #4 Missouri meet this week to determine the winner of the Big 12 North Division. Kansas is 11-0 and Missouri is 10-1. The winner will play in the Big 12 championship in December. For our hopes, it would be nice to see Missouri win this game and then lose in the Big 12 title game. That would give both teams 2 losses. LSU, West Virginia, and Ohio State all have one loss.

The plan is to get all of the above teams 2 losses- that would mean that 20 teams or so would have a legitimate argument for inclusion into the BCS title game.

We're rooting for Anarchy.

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The spectre of the dual National Champion 'rears its beautiful head'

There comes a time in our mission to strew anarchy across college football and destroy the bowl system root and branch when our rooting each week for giant upsets becomes possibly counter productive. The down side of weekly upsets is that the BCS system actually tends to make sense once every five years (at least not be majorly unfair), and to destroy this system, we must make sure it never makes sense. We wish to make sure that there is no clear cut choice of only two teams with a legitimate claim to the title game. For now, we feel secure in the validity of our claims will be see by all @ this point in the season- but things can change.

This week is a great example of the duality of our wishes: down again goes the #1 team in the nation- this time, our assassin was Illinois in its 28-21 upset of formerly unbeaten Ohio State. Boston College lost for the second week in a row and dropped them out of any possible hope for a BCS bowl. These two losses leave seven teams with one loss and one with none- Kansas*. So far , so good- eight teams with a good claim.

NCAA football expert John Suanders told the national television audience in the minutes after the Ohio State upsets that he believed there “could be a split national championship this year.” This sense of anarchy about having no satisfactory system of crowning a champion continues and hopefully will last until the end of the season. Good- fuck this system!

But with Missouri (9-1) at Kansas (10-0) on 24 November and the winner probably playing Oklahoma (9-1) in the Big 12 title game, two more teams will fall out of the BCS race with a loss. That will leave six teams with a legitimate claim to the BCS title game. Any more upsets can potentially whittle the field down to just two one or no loss teams- a public relations disaster for our side. However, all in all, we stand committed to a continued campaign of upsets in the hopes that there will be no teams without at last two losses. But- even if only two teams remain with one loss and meet in the BCS title game, we still despise this horrible system for settling a “national champion”. Do it like every other level of football or indeed every sort in the NCAA- by a playoff. Fuck the bowls!

This week brings more upsets chances. Ohio State, still with only one loss and currently #7 in the AP, plays @ # 23 Michigan. AP #5 West Virginia plays @ #21 Cincinnati (8-2), and Oklahoma plays @ Texas Tech (7-4). Although I warned all readers last week to watch for a possible upset in the Ohio State - Illinois game, I don’t see any upsets this week. However, Ohio State was the NINTH team this system to be upset by an unranked team, so whom knows what will happen. Check back here next week.
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*= not included in that count for now includes 9-0 Hawaii and 9-1 Boise State. I’ll handle their case later.

Death to the Bull Chit Series

Written by the Bowl Anachrist

Well, it could have been a better weekend for those of us interested in totally destroying the shitty bowl system the NCAA has shackeled us to, but when two of the top four in the BCS rankings lose, it can't be all that bad. We remain: interested in the replacement of the current bowl system by a 16 team playoff in NCAA football. We agitate and celebrate: losses and upsets and other factors that always make the BCS system look like what it is:

SHIT

The gimmie loss was Arizona State losing to Oregon. They were 4 and 5 in the BCS, so one high team or the other had to lose. They are both now 8-1. In retrospect it may have been better for our purposes for Oregon to lose- that would have given them 2 losses, whearas Arizona State still has to play USC and may well lose that game.

I figured that Boston College could not go undefeated this year, and they didn't. Normally I would totally root for B.C. against any of the Florida teams, but not this year.

The big excitement was the almost upset of LSU at Alabama. Double T.D.'s in the last three minutes- one helped by a fucking stupid ass fumble- allowed LSU to stay alive in the BCS chase.

And what about Kansas. Still another undefeated team we have to worry about, and fuck what a number they did on Nebraska.

So, as it stands now, Ohio State is a clear #1. We have to hope that there are too many questions as to who they should play in the BCS title game that its creditability will drop even further. Hopefully, we can have another split championship season. LSU is #2, but there are also six other one loss teams as well as another undefeated team. We still have a lot of work to go.

Best hopes this week for an upset, I hate to say, rests with Illinois -v- Ohio State. Hopefully something is out there to further fuck up the system.

Till next week-

DEATH TO THE BOWLS !!!

Fostering chaos for the Way forward

Did you miss any of the games in the football playoffs over the week end? There were some blow outs- one brackets #1 seeded team beat the #16 seed 48-7 and another won 41-0; but one #16 beat a #1 16-0. Although there were no overtime games in these brackets, there were plenty of close games: 13-7, 13-7, 14-7, 14-7, as well as 14-7. The second round will bring a #12 v -#13 game, a #14 v #6, and a #16- v #9.

Which football playoffs? It was the first round of the Illinois State High School football playoffs: eight different classes with 32 teams each. Like the NCAA basketball tournament - or, indeed, any NCAA sport except Division I Football, which has no playoff - there is a lot of cross mingling of teams that normally wouldn’t play each other in the regular season facing off in the post season. And this for the rite to go on challenge another strange team in the next round. The delicious aspect of the unknown beckons @ each new level of the playoffs- unless there is a rematch of a regular season game. The excitement of a rematch between two foes can be great. And sometimes a game can be between two area teams that normally do not play because they are in different leagues. I want the same sense of excitement the Illinois playoffs

I bring all this up because of my deep hatred of the NCAA’s cheap ass system of bowl games that farcicates (I know, language polizi- I apologize) ruins the end of each beautiful division I system. The stupid system where numbers are fed through computers to come up with a #1- v #2 end of the season match has worked a few times in the past few years, but has also led to some laughable - and often deeply unfair- matchups in the past. Later in the season I will proffer my idea for a playoff - but one of my arguments will enshrine what I have written about in the first two paragraphs above.

In my campaign to destroy the bowl system root and stem and branch, I will be presenting arguments from time to time against this foul and dirty system. As it is now, There are five unbeaten Div. I teams left: #1 Ohio State, #2 Boston College, #7 Arizona State, #12 Kansas, and #16 Hawaii. #’s 3-6 teams LSU, Oklahoma, Oregon, and West Virginia all have one loss. All of these teams are still seemingly in the hunt for a the BCS #1 v #2 matchup, and to varying degrees I hope all of them lose or otherwise make the annual farce that is the Title game selection impossible not to be shown to be deeply arbitrary and unfair. Now, do not get me wrong- there have been good and correct matchups in the BCS title games of the past- but usually one or more teams are screwed each year.

This week we can fuck up one of the above teams fer sure; #5 Oregon(7-1) plays #7 Arizona State (7-0). And in all other games, lets get some more great upsets. The more misery @ the top, the better the for righteousness to grab its riteful place. Lets go Wisconsin and GASP!: am I rooting for Florida Sate v. Boston College?

This week, why yes.

Is it time yet ??

Although my two favourite NCAA football teams, Northern Illinois and Notre Dame, are currently riding on one win seasons, I'm still thrilled by this football season. It's a negative thrill: I hate the BCS system. Just hate it. Anything that fuxx it up I love. So far, this has been a great season. The last few weeks have seen a dizzying rate of destruction amongst the top teams.

There are still six unbeaten top division teams, although most attention has been given to the top three; Ohio State, South Florida, and Boston College. Ohio State has had a log and proud history in football, but the other two are upstarts- S.F particularly.

I'm not so sure any of these teams will remain unbeated @ the end of the regualr season. We most likely will have 8-10 one loss teams all having a claim to the title game. The computers and coaches polls will ferret out two teams that will claim to be the best matchup, but that's totally debateable. I understand that any playoff system will have to pick some teams in the field, but better pick the top 16 or eight and be wrong than pick ONLY TWO.

Every year there appears logical and real arguments for a playoff. When the regular season ends I will revisit this with my own 16 team plan and matchups. Until then, watch the regular season play out.