January 03, 2002
3:30 to go in the first half, Miami is up 34-0 Boy, there's something just so completely....pure about an utter demolition like the one I'm half-watching right now (I'm flipping back-and-forth between the game and Office Space on Comedy Central). The game resembles nothing so much as one of those first-week-of-the-season games where Nebraska schedules some patsy like the Southwest Kansas Teaching College for the Blind and Clumsy to get the season off to a roaring 73-0 start. The Nebraska players barely look like they've ever seen a football before, and they definitely don't look like they belong on the same field as Miami.
Of course, that's what pretty much everybody was saying before the game even started, since Nebraska finished fourth in both the writers' and coaches' polls, but finished second in the BCS standings, the only poll that counts. No matter what happened tonight it wouldn't have stopped the grumbling about the BCS, but a dull disaster like tonight might be the impetus for some sort of brief playoff system. Hell, when the network announcers start questioning the system at halftime, you know something ain't right.
Of course, that's what pretty much everybody was saying before the game even started, since Nebraska finished fourth in both the writers' and coaches' polls, but finished second in the BCS standings, the only poll that counts. No matter what happened tonight it wouldn't have stopped the grumbling about the BCS, but a dull disaster like tonight might be the impetus for some sort of brief playoff system. Hell, when the network announcers start questioning the system at halftime, you know something ain't right.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]