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]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Wow, you don't find too many die-hard Florida fans who grew up in the DC area and went to Northwestern.

Milboken

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Don't count TCU out against Texas. Especially with the Longhorns' felonious problems of late.

Although it should be said that the Frogs have been "this year's" BCS buster/Boise State/sleeper for 6 years now.

BillyMumphry

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> i'm rocking back and forth saying auburn got screwed. war eagle.

ditchell

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Why does everyone give Boise State so much credit when Utah busted the BCS two years earlier?

Oh, right. It's Utah. Shutting up.

Swordchucks, yo

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Dana Altman is Committed: What, are you crazy? Shanoff wasn't watching Florida football way back in 1995!

Barry Lutz

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> ...the Gators thumped unbeaten consensus No. 1 Ohio State in the most laughably lopsided championship-game upset in college football history. (Disclosure: I'm a die-hard Florida fan.)

Mr. Shanoff, Tommie Frazier on line one.

Bo Pelini Temper Tantrum

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Will Leitch is the Ankiel

Eirishis

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> OK, forget about me questioning Shanoff's Gator-hood. I just got to the part where he ridicules Frank Beamer's scar (a result of a severe burn when he was 7 years old.) He's a Gator through and through.

Stay classy, Shanoff.

Barry Lutz

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> UMASS football?? it's educational!!

And JOSEPHFINN, NFL games on TV are awesome, but a live NFL game doesn't even sort of compare with a college game. Not even close.


drewheyman

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Is Dan Shanoff "the Tebow" because of his lifelong passion for Gators football?

Barry Lutz

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @mfdoom: Nope, it always conflicts with the Great Lakes Invitational.

Yostal

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]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Yostal:
guess you havent seen them play in the rose bowl lately.

mfdoom

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Are we going to be getting a weekly Simmons about the NBA? I haven't heard much about the Celtics lately.

thefess

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Technicolor Jan Stenerud: Michigan has never lost a road game when I have been in attendance, so I am counting on my personal streak being extended. But yes, the Apostrophe Cats could be dangerous as well.

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Ah, flapping their gums about the BCS. Proof positive you live in or around a city without a real NFL team. Hence, all the southerners.

JosephFinn

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Texas won't choke away their season to Texas A&M. Mike Leach's Red Raiders will make sure that they choke their season away long before that.

Magnakai Haaskivi

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Da_Mang: You guys beat yourselves that game...well, the rain didn't help either.

Still - winning that year would have cost GSU thousands of dollars in "The Real Six Flags Over Georgia" t-shirt sales...so there's that.

The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @The Gentleman Masher: '98 killed me though. I think Georgia Southern fumbled the ball 9 times and still almost pulled it out. That game ruined what would have been our second 15-0 season.

Da_Mang

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Looks like I found the perfect column to regularly hotlink my freetywillingham.blogspot.com blog to!!!!

Anyways, here's five guarantees with regards to college football this year:
1. Fuck USC
2. Fuck Michigan
3. Fuck Boston College
4. Fuck the BCS
5. Fuck Mark May

Count on it.






CliffX

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> No Florida post is complete without a jean shorts reference.

Da_Mang

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> And I will also add that our team is generally well behaved...some of our fans could use the beatdown, though...based on Liz's claims.

The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Yinka Double Dare: While I appreciate your indignance at unruly fans...I'm sure the odds are pretty good that someone wearing Maize and Blue has done something similar to some other teams' fans, bands, etc.

You should just want to beat us down so we don't make your #5 preseason ranking look shaky...

Nonetheless, wish I could be in The Big House for that one!

The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @blainer: Rutgers faces a crap out-of-conference schedule. Even if they manage to go undefeated, there will probably be one-loss teams ahead of them in the BCS standings.

shtickless

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> How quickly they all forget that we got rolled out of the consensus #2 in the land, and a date in the BCS with The U in favor of Nebraska. And taking it out on Colorado is NOT an acceptable substitute.

Mike Tranghese still better not set foot in Portland.

Johninho

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Yostal: Northwestern!

Technicolor Jan Stenerud

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Lizalicious: On behalf of the fans of the University of Michigan, we hope to give that team a beatdown that they apparently richly deserve. You can see the game on the Big 10 Network. That's the Big 10 Network. Call your local cable operator and tell them you want the Big 10 Network.

Sorry, it's been implanted in my brain now. They were even shilling for it during the Cubs/Cards game on Fox this weekend, with Commish Delaney up in the booth with the broadcasters.

Yinka Double Dare

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> You forgot the biggest doomsday scenario for the BCS: Rutgers vs. anyone.

blainer

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Lizalicious: That was your sister?

I mean...that bastard!!!

Well, it's pretty clear that both fanbases have a propensity for getting carried away. I can only take solace in the fact that I'm not one of them.

I can't really feel bad about the homefield advantage thing...just so happens that Chatty is closer to Boone than Amherst. It didn't seem to hurt you guys too much in '98, though!

The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @The Gentleman Masher: Yes. They dismantled the Southwest Pyramaids. Not exactly an outdoor space.

Don't get me started on Mountaineer fans. Not only did they have home field advantage in the championship, but some Pabst Blue Ribbon swilling punk spit on my younger sister (a UMass band member) at the championship game.

Lizabelle

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> "Dan Shanoff Is The Tebow"? I guess that pics of Dan standing next to busty co-eds will appear next week then.

BDoc

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Shtickless: This is a great idea - give LSU fans a Thursday game, followed by a 3 day weekend. There won't be any alcohol poisoning cases in Baton Rouge at all that weekend...

The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> So the season hasn't even started yet and he's already complaining about the BCS? Wow, fantastic. Can any sportswriter on the planet allow me to enjoy college football? Please?

bignasty96

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> The college football season technically starts August 30th. There's close to a dozen Thursday night games, featuring openers for LSU, Rutgers, Louisville, and Boise State.

Ten days to go.

shtickless

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Lizalicious: They dismantled an open space on campus? You guys must have an impressive engineering department!

The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Yostal: Indeed. Better to have the opportunity for a title and choke on it than to be basically irrelevant. Like Michigan's basketball team.

Yinka Double Dare

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @The Gentleman Masher: It's funny because during my UMass years ('99-'03), there was some, it was mostly just outdoor yelling and screaming, and it wasn't destructive or angry. However, the area where all the riots took place was dismantled at the university a few weeks ago.



Lizabelle

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Unsilent Majority: I still don't see how FU infiltrated The 757 where Percy calls his home. That's been Frank Beamer/Bud Foster's occupied territory since the late 90s, but oh yeah, I'm guessing he actually thought about who would be getting him the ball.....Glennon...doh.

Frank Beamers Goiter

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @pr0ff3ss0r_j3rkwh3at: any draft pick subject to being selected by the Raiders would be well within his rights and earn our sympathy by going the Eli Manning route.

Signal to Noise

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Matt_T: And if not I'll just drink more in St. Simons!!

ugaedgar

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> The flubberneck is synonymous with Hokie contempt, but hey, at least we sent back those Nike's with Ronnie's signature.

Frank Beamers Goiter

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Lady Andrea: As an App State fan, I have nothing but love for UNI and UMass. Heh heh.

@Lizalicious: I'm beginning to debate whether or not rioting in Amherst is a good enough reason to root for Mass based teams to at least make the finals in whatever sport they compete in. Not enough needless sports rioting in this country.

The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Unsilent Majority: Percy Harvin is the rightful heir to the "humanity advanced" label next year when McFadden is stuck playing for the Raiders.

/shudders at the thought of that happening to my precious McFadden...

pr0FF3ss0r_j3rkwh3at

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Lizalicious: Re: "Don't know if anyone's jacked this one off yet, but Vick is pleading out.
/jack"

I have no intention of jacking off Mike Vick. Unless, there is there is some money involved of course.



Body by Sabathia

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Yinka Double Dare: Please, let me keep my fantasy for an undefeated national championship season for 12 more days.

SA

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Yinka Double Dare: You understand all too well. I know the shoe is going to drop, I just don't know when. That said, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Lady Andrea:

False, you love "NCAA Football Championship Subdivision" football.

cowbell204

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> That guy with the "Vick is innocent. Dog-gone-it." guy was way off.

EddieRebel

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Lady Andrea:

Supposedly Arvelle Nelson with a warrant for arrest for failing to appear in court on a previous traffic charge (I think driving w/ suspended license).

cowbell204

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Ah, yes. Dan Shanoff, "die-hard Florida fan."

Since 2005.

Next week: Why Byron Leftwich has always been my homeboy.

OchentaYcinco

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Was Orson busy?

Just kidding Dan. I fully expect next week's column to be about how amazing and grand and a godsend USC is to college football.

SA

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> It might not be the most popular stance but....

PERCY HARVIN > Tim Tebow

Unsilent Majority

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Yostal: as a Pac-10 homer, I'd like to call Oregon, but that isn't likely. I'm gonna put my early money on Carr blowing it at Purdue.

Signal to Noise

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> /continueThreadjack

And it got $50 worse for Ookie this afternoon: [www.ajc.com]

I'm sure that'll push him over the edge...

/endThreadjack

CDNMoose

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Lizalicious: I love 1-AA. UNI Panthers, represent!

Lady Andrea

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Matt Stafford is going to bash Tebow over the head with a keg.
/wishful thinking.


Matt_T

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @The Gentleman Masher: Hah, and that wasn't even the worst of the UMass riots. The one in '04 when the Patriots won their second Super Bowl was larger and way more destructive.

On this topic, why no love for 1-AA????

Lizabelle

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Thanks Dan, see you at home - I will pick up dinner tonight.

Tebow2007

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Yostal: The @Wisconsin sure seems like the most likely, though the @Illinois has some potential both in the bizarro department and in the 'most embarrassing' department since it will be an ABC night game. Normally I'd just assume it would be the @MSU with some crazy play or call, but they really look like they're going to be awful this year. Thank god the Pac 10 opponent is in Ann Arbor.

But yeah, it's gotta be in there somewhere. Unless the defense is way better than it would appear.

Yinka Double Dare

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @The Gentleman Masher:

I was actually wondering the same thing. Does attacking yourself count?

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Now that Vick has admitted guilt and is going to jail (in likelihood for at least a year), can we resume our righteous indignation with a big "fuck you #7"?

BigTenObsession

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Afino: Don't attack posters!! Even self-depricating attacks!!!

@Lizalicious:
I think the most burning question I have is will Gentleman Masher's Mountaineers humble Lizalicious's Minutemen in Chattanooga again...leading to more arson-infused riots in Amherst! I hope so!


The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> As long as Michigan beats Wisconsin and I can harass my dame, I'm good.

goathair

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @UkraineNotWeak: Nope. Just a silent toast from 827 Puerto Rican maids.

Senators Lost Cojones

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Poor Dan.

Overshadowed by Vick.

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> When are the comedian interviews coming back?

Weed Against Speed

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Shanoff is the Wuerffelest.

Matt Sussman

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> What? Leona Helmsley's death doesn't rate a threadjack?

UkraineNotWeak

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @BigTenObsession: Look, I blame Nibbles for that. His intentions are spelled out in broken code.

@BigTDog: really? "Hoopde" just looks wrong.

Signal to Noise

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> all over the place now (vick) - [www.washingtonpost.com]


Blauwe Duivels

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Camp Tiger Claw: You snuck into my brain and stole my thoughts.

Gators eat boogers.

Matt_T

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Vick to plead guilty - [www.ajc.com]

Blauwe Duivels

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Signal to Noise:

I looked it up. The Urban Dictionary accepts either spelling. I was shocked!

BigTDog

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @cowbell204: THREE? Who was the third?

Lady Andrea

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Signal to Noise:

spelling? he couldn't even get the link right!

BigTenObsession

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Michigan goes unbeaten (and doesn't, say, choke away the season vs. Ohio State)...

or Wisconsin...or Penn State...or Oregon...or Michigan State...or Illinois...or Purdue...

It's hidden somewhere in there...

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> A Florida column with no mention of jorts or mullets...obviously not accurate at all.

ugaedgar

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> espnnews is now running the Vick plea.

Shanoff, I believe it's spelled "hoopty."

Signal to Noise

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Most.Akward.Title.Ever.

Spectacular Sam

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Lizalicious: thank youuuu virginia pilot

FreePirateBobblehead

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Dan is much funnier when he's allowed to drop the F-bomb.

BigTenObsession

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Can the title be changed to Dan Shanoff is the Teabagger? Pleeeeeeease?

DennyCrane

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @cowbell204: Boy, the Big Televen is really trying to make sure they sweep the podium for the Fulmer Cup this year.

Yinka Double Dare

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> I thought McFadden was already in the NFL, right UM?

Rob Iracane

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Afino:

Hey Dumbass, how about you read that it's actually written BY him.

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Okay, Leitch, you lost me at "Dan Shanoff".

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Michigan goes unbeaten

and my sperm tastes like beer. . .

MattMillenFanClub

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @chilltown: It's the breaking news line on CNN.

Lizabelle

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Did anyone actually read that?

MY LEFT TIT

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> What no mention of a scenario where the WAC champ goes undefeated ?

UpstateUnderdog

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Is it still considered a threadjack if the thread hasn't even really begun yet?

Also, this was very good. I hope it fares better with the commentariat than previous efforts at new features. I understand Jeremy Hotz remains curled up in the fetal position sucking his thumb in a darkened corner.

So, pretty much the same as before he showed up on Deadspin.

PenskeMaterial

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Clearly Tim Tebow has been taking ballet lessons from Big Baby Davis.

also, link lizzie?

chilltown

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Did someone crawl into my brain and figure out the fastest way to piss me off? A weekly column that's going to find a discreet way to blow the Gators every week? Fuck.

Come back Jeremy Hotz, I'm sorry.

Camp Tiger Claw

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> dan shanoff is the tebow

I don't get it. I mean, aside from the homosexual crush, obviously.

diddly

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Three Hawkeyes arrested today. :(

cowbell204

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Leitch outsources more than Ford, Nike and Hewlett Packard combined. Okay, babe?

/Dennis Miller

ArkansasFred

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> @Lizalicious:
Buttsechs?

cowbell204

]]> <![CDATA[Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!]]> Don't know if anyone's jacked this one off yet, but Vick is pleading out.

/jack.

Lizabelle

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