I'm guilty of this, but I wish it would stop:
"Team x beat team y, but team z beat team x so automatically z > y."
Even the common opponent argument is crappy to me. No argument will ever be as great as arguing for a team that beat another team on the field of battle, and that is that.
I'm trying to not sound too much like sour grapes, but it will happen none-the-less. Since Texas had a tough time dispatching Ohio State, Florida and Oklahoma both could beat Texas easily - that's an easy and popular statement to make today, but this is far from being justifiable. There has been more than enough evidence show this year to think that Texas could beat any team in the country.
Now, someone make the case for Utah, because you know... that Alabama win.... well... let's just say that 13-0 looks nice.
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I'm about to start a big rant. ESPN, Fox, and all those little bitches with their whiny bitch equivocating 'analysists' have pissed me off.
>Since Texas had a tough time dispatching Ohio State, Florida and Oklahoma both could beat Texas easily - that's an easy and popular statement to make today, but this is far from being justifiable.
Except we beat Oklahoma already. On a neutral site. By 10 points.
Playoffs are the only way to go.
Pretty much any ranked team could, with the right sort of luck (fumbles, flat out wrong calls by refs, gusts of wind that knock down field goals -- let your imagination run wild) beat any other team.
Any single game will have a huge element of luck deciding the winner.
Look at baseball, even the Astros and Royals are able to win a series or a game against the best teams in the league. Sportswriters might try and act like the winner is football is determined merely by the superior, collective 'will to win' of the players for the victorious team, but sports writers are fucking idiots.
Determining which team is 'better' is a very difficult (just the ever-so-slightest bit of sarcasm there, ha!) thing to do based on arguments, stats, etc. Even in playoffs, obviously, luck plays a deciding factor in who will be the champion.
But at least the teams get to fucking play each other!
Luck be damned, at least there's a winner and a loser, not this bullshit 'system' in place now.
This isn't about sport, it's about advertising. Controversy = ratings = profits. And with one championship game, you run the risk of getting two teams with a shitty market share wasting all that primetime adverising (see the Phillies and Devil Rays World Series) like you could potentially have with a Utah - Ole Miss championship matchup, if, god forbid, there was a playoff in college football.
That would have gone better if I could spell analysts.
Totally read over it without thinking twice
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