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]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Shrutebag guaranteed a USF win this weekend when he said they would get toasted by Rutgers. In related news, he also thinks Members Only jackets are still in style...

metalmaniac

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> this season has officially become the biggest clusterf--k in the sport's history.

It should be noted that, for Shanoff's purposes, "this sport's history" dates all the way back to when his wife made him start rooting for Florida.

Barry Lutz

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @Absurd Hero: "Welcome to Cal football, freshmen!" My girlfriend doesn't understand, but I've been living through shit like this for 20 years. Still sucks, but it's not surprising.

@The Arizona State Sun Devil: No.

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> The Huskers finally fired much maligned AD Steve Pedersen today. Rumors are that defensive coordinater Kevin Cosgrove won't be far behind Steve in the unemployment line.

[journalstar.com]

The Nebraskan

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> "kansas may be the last unbeaten team in the underrated Big XII"

The cupcakes worked.

/Mangino joke

The jayhawkers won't be 13-0 and won't play in the Big XII Championship. Their losses are coming now that they have to, you know, play games outside of the State of kansas.

FightTiger

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> If Mike Teel doesn't throw 3 interceptions USF may have some trouble. As a sidenote: I was a freshman in '97, saw 80-3 type games, by the time I graduated we drank ourselves stupid and never made it past the parking lot. Moral of the story: RU fans are always waiting for the disappointment

D-Murder

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Appalachian State should be ranked #10.

(appa-LATCH-an)

The Great Gondorff

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> And also, all of my old buddies from home used to get confused and think I went to UCF.

This season should at least change all of that.

Walker Told Me I Have AIDS

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Well... my childhood team the Pitt Panthers are downright abysmal.

Buuuut that bachelor's degree I have from South Florida is looking better by the second here!

Walker Told Me I Have AIDS

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @UkraineNotWeak:

I'm just happy we don't get UConn twice this year and instead get USF and Nova.

Although we do get Georgetown.....

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @The Gentleman Masher: Yes, return to the system that gave UofM a share of a national championship rather than have to face Nebraska.

I am still reeling from USC minor drop after the "upset of the century" while UofM dropped off the face of the planet with a (now looking at it) not so bad loss?

Javert

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> If we beat Cal does that mean people will shut the fuck up about being overrated? We haven't had the toughest of schedules, but we are 7-0 (4-0 in the PAC). Unlike Oklahoma, we didn't lose to Colorado, and unlike USC we didn't lose to Stanford (we actually blew them the fuck out of the water).

The Arizona State Sun Devil

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> OSU would not go .500 in the SEC. Our defense is as good as anyone's and we have three very capable backs, better then LSU's in my opinion. Just because Michigan and Wisconsin suck balls this year does not mean OSU is as bad as them.

Christ Sabo

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @ The Seaward...

I'd like to point out that Michigan and tOSU have two opponents in common. NW and PU. In what world are you living in that Michigan "squeaked" past Purdue? They pounded them like Stuart Scott on a congo drum at a poetry jam.

Shop Smart, Shop S-Mart

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @Len Bias Cocaine Surplus:
When I went to opening day at Chestnut Hill, I joked to the guy behind me that BC was going to win out and accidentally win the BCS title. If BCS can be the harbinger of BCSapocalypse, I'd be happy.

Matty Heisman for the win.

StartingAces

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @drewheyman: I'm thinking he considers not closing a URL reference normal, from the looks of the last half of this article.

cromartie

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Ohio State might be No. 1 today, both in the polls and Sunday's initial BCS results, but who can't see coming a Buckeyes season-ending loss at Michigan, in the perfect bookend to the Wolverines' sorry start to this season (and equally pathetic end to 2006). It's a karmic lock.

OK... that's ONE way to look at it...

OR... you could actually watch football and notice Michigan is fucking terrible and is squeaking past teams that Ohio State is steamrolling in a shitty conference. Just because you're a Florida fan, Dan, doesn't make Michigan magically good. This team still lost to Appalachian State.

The Seaward (nee Tocchets Bookie)

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> "With Saturday's losses its two top-ranked teams..."

How appropriate: a clusterfuck lede, in a column about clusterfucks.

And Mrs. Shanoff is picking the Gators!

Alonzo Mosely

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @UkraineNotWeak: How dare you befoul the good name of Greg Robinson?

(thinking)

On second thought, do you think Paul Harris will come around?

GreatOdensRaven

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> I've actually decided that...if the season is, in fact, a playoff, they should just go back to the old way of doing things.

That is - Big 12 Champ to Orange Bowl...Pac-10 and Big 10 Champs to Rose, SEC to Sugar, and then...I guess send ACC and Big East to Fiesta or whatever.

That way, one stupid network can't control every game...and spread them out over 4 nights. Also - it means if there were, in fact, 6 one loss teams...they'd all likely be playing somewhere else other than grumbling in the other 3 BCS poll games while the computer places 2 in New Orleans.

I bet that system would actually help prove who can win when all the marbles are on the line.

The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Al Qedia is rooting for USF

Herbies_Wingman

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> My CAL Bears had a #1 ranking in their grasp, and let it slip away. How do you let a game end on a QB scramble at the other team's ten yard line when you are only down 3 points. Ugly. But, sooo very CAL.

Absurd Hero

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Eh, I'm shocked that the Tebow paragraph got edited out.

The Gizmo from Pismo

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @Charles: Aaron Rouse and Marcus Vick's partner-in-crime Brendan Hill, the one Herbstreit wants to nominate for Dancing with the Stars, are both gone. That means the defense won't completely implode due to bickering/penalties, but I wouldn't count out Brandon Flowers coming through for you there. Out of Tech's highly touted CB's of late (i.e. D-Hall, J-Williams), no one really talks much about fellow alums Vinny Fuller and Eric Green.

Frank Beamers Goiter

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @drewheyman: Shanoff is acting like any other mainstream sports journalist:

As soon as all of those comforting, familiar names (USC, Florida, Michigan, etc.) lose, the easy storyline for the year is busted and he starts to panic.

So obviously that means the entire system is flawed.

xhack

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> I think no unbeaten teams is EXACTLY the scenario that will see the BCS succeed. It's the unbeaten teams that fuck it up.

Southeast Jerome

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> This article is always so weird. it's like looking at the BCS title game, without even considering that there are still many more games to be played.

It's a clusterf%*%$&*k when half the one-loss teams in the top 10 still have to play other top 10 teams? What do you consider to be normal? A thorazine, a straight jacket, and no loud noises?

drewheyman

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> In a season of complete unpredictability, where anything can happen to any of the top teams, there is one rock that we have been able to depend on, week after week -- Lou Holtz, who so inspires the recipients of his weekly pep talks that they immediately go out and lose, every single time.

Nice of the Michigan team that was ranked #5 to start the year to finally show up halfway through the season. I'm sure they'll leave that team in Ann Arbor and lose to Illinois now, leaving me to hope that it returns in time for the Ohio State game.

Yinka Double Dare

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> I know I'm repeating myself, but Les Miles will fit right in as the next Michigan coach.

Matt_T

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @Hazel Maes Landing Strip: There's an NLCS too?

Does ESPN know about this?

xhack

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> So if the season ended today the Championship game would be Ohio State vs South Florida? Thats almost as fun as a Rockies/DBacks NLCS!

HazelMaesLandingStrip

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> The computers completely agree with me, so they are awesome!

Dr. Michael Mancini

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Mark it down: South Florida will go undefeated, but still get passed in the BCS rankings because of strength of schedule. Uggh!

ASox

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @Frank Beamers Goiter:

So, kind of like BC?

Yes, I'm selectively ignoring the fact that 3 of Ryan's INTs have gone back for TDs.

Shanoff, I agree that SEC is tops this season, but how do you discount the ACC when you have BC #7 and VTech #10?

Charles

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @preciousroy: A rating of pi in a game coached by Mangino? How fitting.

HIV 2 Elway

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @Frank Beamers Goiter: Which is why I like BC's chances next week. Granted, Blacksburg is no easy place to win in, but they beat VTech's (IMO better) defense last year with an uber conservative game plan. Now that the new staff has let Ryan run wild...

Just gotta work on our kickoff and punt coverage.

xhack

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @GunsDontKillPeopleIDo: I've been to that website. It's nice & all, but kind of rudimentary. Poon, pole, insertion, repeat.

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> The man who voted ASU #1 obviously thought this was a poon poll.

Jehovahs Witness Protection Program

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> This isn't chaning anything, and there is no playoff coming. The day after the regular season, the conference commissioners will look at the final BCS standings and proclaim, "The system works."

The only hope is that Hawaii gets teamed with South Florida or Kansas, the game draws a 3.1415926535 share and Fox picks up the phone and says, "Yeah... we have sort of a problem."

Michael Bertin

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @HIV 2 Elway: It's like reading David Hirshey's Closer, but finding no Arsenal news.

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @OchentaYcinco: that would have to be a very big mind.

The Fan’s Attic

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Gawker IT is dipping into the Crystal Meth again as I've been logoffed a couple of times this morning.

UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @xhack: Well and to win the turnover differential. To beat Tech, you simply have to not turn it over and have a better-than-average QB.

Frank Beamers Goiter

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @Frank Beamers Goiter: Beamer's gameplan every week is to score 2 special teams TDs isn't it?

xhack

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @UkraineNotWeak: Basketball season couldn't come any sooner. Baseball and football gambling has put me in the red, and I have a better feel for hoops, even if its rigged.

Frank Beamers Goiter

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> I, too, favor broad, sweeping generalizations, Dan.

ArkansasFred

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Everybody has their chance to get a bite of the apple.
The rules are fair.
The regulations are fair.
The competitive balance is fair.

/high-performance helicopter

katolesce

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> the SEC's Big Three of LSU, South Carolina, and Kentucky

that just seems wrong to me...yet, it's right.

Jerkwheat

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> there is one very predictable thing about the Spartans.

their defense blows monkey nuts

Babcocksure

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @Kid Canada: I'm pulling for Kansas because all this season is missing is more Mangino. Now pardon me while I wrap my feeble mind around the thought of even more Mangino.

OchentaYcinco

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> The important college sports news from this weekend is that practice has begun for the upcoming basketball season.

(Syracuse alum. Where the football season never really got started)

UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @HIV 2 Elway: Tebow will proceed to obliterate Kentucky this Saturday-- Urban is unstoppable after a bye week and Kentucky will come off sluggish after the program's biggest win last saturday.

iHaveaRagingTebowner

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> @BloggyMcBlogBlog: Once they change the BCS to include the "Teams That Are USC" category.

peytonloveskenny

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> The only explanation is that bandwagons get really poor mpg

LingeringBursitis

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> I think the wheels are falling off the bandwagoneer.

The Fan’s Attic

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Fear the gobblers, not their QB, O-Line, or running game though...

Frank Beamers Goiter

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Somehow, USC will make it to the title game.

BloggyMcBlogBlog

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Heaven help me I love Mangino...he's turned the football team from being a joke to being noticed by people who still think they are a joke.

Colorado is just another cupcake waiting to be eaten.

tater

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> I really hope USF goes to the championship. That might mean that there is a chance (albeit a really small one) that the powers that be might think about a playoff system. I mean, South Florida isn't going to make them enough money!

peytonloveskenny

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> The BCS is fun.

UpstateUnderdog

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Mangino > Mangenius

Kid Canada

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> PREVIOUS SSF: Shanoff's predictions are as useful as a light switch in a blind guy's bedroom.
NEW SSF: Nothing has changed.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> I think we need Stephen Rea reprising his Inspector Finch role and reading a monologue about the upcoming BCS shitstorm.

Im a people person. Who drinks.

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> No Tebow news?

HIV 2 Elway

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> How does Dan have South Florida #4 last week, but now #1 ahead of Ohio State who he had #3 last week? They both played shitty teams and destroyed them. Also, .500 in the SEC?

FACT: Defense > Offense. Hence the reason OSU shit the bed last year.

Lindsay Lohans Left Boob

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Don't ruin my BC dreams no matter how much they ignore reality.

Len Bias Cocaine Surplus

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> South Florida vs Kansas to win it all and the conf. commissioners can choke on it.

Big John

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> It's atrocious that Ohio State is #1. The Big Ten is so ridiculously bad this year that we should have to relinquish our BCS bid.

Lady Andrea

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Ohio State would go .500 in the SEC.

Shanoff would like to pronounce SEC's penis is clean.

DannyNoonan

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Out of all this, Notre Dame will still manage to end up in a BCS bowl game.

UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> The BCS computers say the secret ingredient to being number one is love.

MitchKayak

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> tashard choice loves the cock

ltwinslow

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Consistency, Shanoff--is it clusterf--k, or clusterfuck. You can't have it both ways.

Sandy Magic Jackson

]]> <![CDATA[The BCS Apocalypse Is Coming]]> Should've been you, Florida.

Oh wait, it was. Weeks ago.

Student of The Game

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