<![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @merde: Must love a 1 loss team. Congrats on a disappointing season.

bodacio

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Philistine: That's Number 13 Missouri to you, buddy! :)

FightTiger

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Tar Heel Fan: Ouch, I'll give you last season's loss up in New England on a Thursday. But to bring up the '95 season-opening 20-14 loss to BC (after they got drubbed by OSU the week before), that cut me straight to the bone.

Frank Beamers Goiter

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @FightTiger:

Mizzou holds the top offense in the nation to 10 points, and nary a mention here?

Well it's, um, Missouri.

Philistine

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Mizzou holds the top offense in the nation to 10 points, and nary a mention here?

FightTiger

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @The Gentleman Masher: kansas misses both OU and UT this season. The jayhawkers' non-con included Cen. Mich., SE Louisiana, Toledo and Fla. Int'l... ALL in Lawrence.

Just thought everyone should be reminded of these facts.

For the THIRD week in a row (it's going to come true eventually!)... THIS is the week (@ A&M) we can stop hearing about kansas. I keep telling myself they'll be out of the picture by the time the Border War gets here... won't they?

FightTiger

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @3championshipsandwich: or a sports lover's bar, asshole.

iHaveaRagingTebowner

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @TomahawkFlop: I am from jax, and live there. The Landing will be crowded beyond belief, and it will take literally 45 minutes plus $10 for a beer-- it's totally overrated by simply being huge, on the river, and close to the satdium. Tell your limo or cab driver to take you to the beach bars and you will be set. Or, if you stay downtown, and don't want to drive to the beach, hit the Bay st. combo downtown of Mark's, Dive Bar, and TSI (but note: TSI is probably about the furthest thing ever from a sports bar, or a port lovers bar-- more of an indie dance bar, if that makes sense).

iHaveaRagingTebowner

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Matt_T: I will be there, wearing the "We'll keep wearing jorts, you keep sucking. fine by me" tee shirt.

iHaveaRagingTebowner

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @emjayelle:
Oh come on now. If you want the top of your head to be tanned while your face stays shaded, what piece of headwear do you turn to?


drewheyman

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @TomahawkFlop: Crossroads. The only strip club I know of with no cover and $5 pitchers of beer.

Camp Tiger Claw

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> I think it is unfortunate that there is so much weight put on a "National Champion". Winning your conference should be what matters most, while bowl games are icing on the cake.

Johnny Blackshoe

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @OchentaYcinco: Pitt? HaHa. HaHa. What a worthless team. "Hi, we were good for like two seasons of the past 30."

D-Murder

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Rutgers will give WVU their second loss of the year. RU wins out the Big East this year.

As for Ohio St, as many people said here, they don't escape Michigan or Penn State without at least one loss. Not this year.

D-Murder

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> The idea of rooting for Penn State this weekend makes me want to take a shower. But for the greater good, I will.

(Play Pitt, you pussies.)

OchentaYcinco

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> If Shanoff can look deep inside himself and rank the Buckeyes #1, why is questioning whether OSU fans can?

Wolverines

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Shawon-O-Meter: Shoals is just one man! Give him time!

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> state college is for people who wear visors

emjayelle

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @bodacio:
Hey, I've got two words for ya.
Fuck you.

crap

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> "Sucks to be Cal", indeed.

I went from researching the National Championship Game, and requisite travel and accomodation costs, to abandoning that and putting my hopes and dreams back in the closet in 7 days.

The team was 15 minutes away from #1, and they looked, a week later, like they cared more bout their studies.

bigboneded

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Just give me that Duke win at Notre Dame and my sports-fan life can be complete.

Trot Nixons Hat

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> ESPN Conversation Featured Comment:

"The SEC championship should be the NC game, the two best teams will be in that game."

I wasn't aware that Kige contributed to ESPN as well.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Johnny Blackshoe:

Wait, you mean the guy who wrote this is AGAINST a playoff? So, not only should it count against you if your conference and OOC opponents are in a down year (anyone remember when U-Dub was good? 'Cause that's when this game was scheduled), but you shouldn't be able to do anything about it?

MrEleganza

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @xhack: Because everyone hates their jobs and has nothing better to talk about. I haven't seen too many preseason NBA posts up in these parts.

Shawon-O-Meter

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Shawon-O-Meter: True.

I don't get why people get into such a fit this early in the BCS rankings. Is BC overrated? Maybe. If they are, they lose one or two games (or... yipes, more) and they're no longer ranked #2. End of argument.

But if they keep winning, they deserve to be there.

xhack

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Johnny Blackshoe: Amen.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> VT is 13-2 on Thursday nights....the two losses?

Boston College

Tar Heel Fan

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> To summarize... the computer sucks, the pollsters suck, the computer is the best, the pollsters are the best, OSU sucks, OSU rules, Les Miles has long balls, Florida is the best, Florida is the best, Tim Tebow will eat your children.

StreakinTheQuad

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> For BC, all the talk of where we're ranked is silly unless we're undefeated Friday morning. Then I'll talk about how much we'd lose to LSU by. (I'm thinking 37-17.)

Shawon-O-Meter

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Even worse than 'the tyranny of the unbeatens' is 'the tyranny of the people who insist on writing long columns about the injustice of BCS rankings the third week they're released and when they don't have any bearing on anything'.

Yeah, I hate that.

The BCS rankings are just an excuse to keep college football relevant and in the media during the NFL season and baseball playoffs. It's also a means to keep their methodology somewhat transparent.

Rustjive

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Wait, I thought the college football season was one big playoff?

Shanoff, are you ready to admit that your theory sucks?

Johnny Blackshoe

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Based on WHAT exactly?

Sweater Vests > Ski Vests

GoldManGold

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Ohio St. completely shut down MSU's offense, which has been ridiculous this season. Everyone was saying the same things about OSU the season they went in and tore up Miami (not to mention McGahee's leg).

HeavyPettingZoo

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Shanoff- you won't have to worry about that argument after this weekend for Ohio State

GO PSU!

BelichickSpiesOnYou

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Shanoff - actually BC has the best win of the unbeatens... against BCS #25 Wake. Purdue and KSU are well down the list.

StreakinTheQuad

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Congrats Shanoff. You just found a way to make the BCS MORE confusing

Babcocksure

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> I don't think it's fair that everyone is tearing apart OSU's schedule, I mean it isn't our fault everyone else is shitty this year. We don't plan to have weak schedules, look at Texas the past two years and USC, Miami, Alabama and Va Tech coming up on the schedule over the next few years.

That being said, LSU would violate us in ways I don't want to think about if we ended up playing them.

chalker7

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @MitchKayak: A Boston College BCS triumph is the only Boston sports triumph that I'll abide. Only because the head coach is an alumnus of the same high school as I am.

The rest -- Sawkxs, Celts, Pats -- can suck a big one.

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

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Pennington_Noodlearm_Enthusiast: Hear, hear (class of '94).

We'll always have the Beanpot.

thetaxman

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Tyranny of the Unbeaten

I thought this would be a diatribe against Janet Jackson's most recent album. My bad.

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Dan Shanoff:

Why do you think the Michigan job will be open? They'll probably be coming off a Rose Bowl year. Yep, that's how awful the Big 10 is this season.

I say Carr sticks around for a few more years and then is replaced by Crazy Jim Harbaugh.

The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> i am rather pissed i won't be in Happy Valley this weekend. but i will be extremely drunk and celebrating in a bar that i will pretend is Beaver Stadium.

WE ARE... PENN STATE

Upshaws Leash

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Who in the hell is sucking off this flash-in-the-pan Ohio State team? No track record, no tradition, no experience as a national powerhouse...disgusting.

To the 1 loss teams: Hey...win all of your games.

bodacio

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Actually - I think that Wake win looks better a month later. They're 4-2 and 3-1 in the ACC.

Still - BC loses to either VT or Clemson (because Clemson shows up when they're underdogs).

The best debate in this unbeaten thing right now is to ask why Ohio State's undefeated record looks any better than Kansas'. They've both played pretty crappy schedules. AZ State loses this weekend, Ohio State loses at Michigan, I think Kansas lasts until the Mizzou game, though.

The Gentleman Masher

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> So, the SEC is pretty much a pro conference at this point, right?

muggsybogues

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Ohio State should hang their head in shame because no one on their schedule is good this year. Yes, they've statistically blown out everyone they've played (including last week, which would've been 24-3 if not for two TO's deep in their own half).

If you don't play anyone good, even if you blow them out, the default assumption should be that you aren't as good as the teams with tougher schedules. "Unproven" = assume the worst.

MrEleganza

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> so if OSU loses this weekend, then what?

LingeringBursitis

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Les Miles doesn't have balls. He's a moron. The move just happened to work out.
Dan's just hoping for a way to get Florida back in the title game.


The Gizmo from Pismo

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> The Subcommandante is coming for you, Shanoff.

Disgruntled Goat

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Yinka Double Dare: This PSU game scares me. Big time. PSU could field players from Loyola Maramount's football team and still give the Buckeyes a game at Beaver Stadium. Perhaps our previous schedule of Kent State, Akron and Youngstown St. has not prepared us well for a night game at PSU...

Christ Sabo

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> To the fans of schools who schedule cupcake opponents all year just so they can complain about their lack of BCS respect despite a perfect or near-perfect record: Cry

StuScott Booyahs

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Based on WHAT, exactly?

The number one in the country ranking, maybe?

ArkansasFred

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Pennington_Noodlearm_Enthusiast: Oh you guys can have the Beanpot again this year if it'll cheer you up.

Not that you weren't going to win it anyway....

xhack

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Matt_T:

We're staying at the Hyatt just down from The Landing. From who I've talked to The Landing is a good start.

TomahawkFlop

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Who cares what the rankings are now? All of the unbeatens have to play someone before the end of the year. Three of the four have tough ones this week (@VaTech, Cal, @PSU). Penn State might not be ranked as highly as VaTech, but if there's a bigger homefield advantage in college football than what Penn State had the last time OSU came to Beaver Stadium at night (not coincidentally OSU's last conference loss), I certainly haven't seen it.

Yinka Double Dare

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> I'm rooting for a Hawaii/Kansas national championship game.

UpstateUnderdog

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @TomahawkFlop: I'm staying in St. Simon's for the weekend, I'll just be in Jax on gameday. The Landing is where the huge party is, booze all over the place, live music etc etc. That's probably your best bet.

Matt_T

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @MitchKayak: Amen to that, sir.
Fuck BC. Seriously. And it's not just because I went to BU. I swear. I SWEAR.

OK, that's why.

Pennington Noodlearm Enthusiast

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Brazil Thrill: There would be a noticable increase in unemployment as thousands of "experts" from ESPN, CBS, etc. suddenly found themselves without purpose if the computers took over the rankings.

xhack

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Actually, OSU is number one because we are awesome.

Christ Sabo

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> @Matt_T:

see my post just above you at 1:19

TomahawkFlop

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> College Football polls are responsible for the biggest amount of bitching and moaning and biased arguments and know-it-alls. In my humble opinion, either leave it entirely up to the computers to determine the standings or come up with a different scheme that doesn't feature so much douchebaggery.

I can already predict this year there will be at least 3 or 4 teams' fanbases complaining about not making it to the title game.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Temple is on a three-game winning streak. TEMPLE IS ON A THREE-GAME WINNING STREAK!!

Matt Sussman

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party."

Michael L. Slive is on Line 1 and would like a word with you, Mr. Shanoff.

Arriaga_II

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> What about Tebow's injury, Dan?

I'll be in attendance at the Worlds Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party (suck it Michael Adams). Any one else going?

Matt_T

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> So then, what are the dimensions on Mrs. Miles cheeks? Can we get a measurement?

bsanders37

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Speaking of the World's Largest Outdoor cocktail party, my bachelor party is this weekend in Jacksonville for the game. I've never been. Anyone have any good recs for establishments to partake in general debauchery (bars and boobs most preferably)?

TomahawkFlop

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Please god, let VT win.

I can't handle a world where BC football is relevant again.

MitchKayak

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> If BC's jerseys said "Miami" or "Florida State" on them, people wouldn't be giving them shit for not having the audacity to lose yet. I'm getting pretty sick of it.

But I will agree, Thursday night is a big "prove it" game for both teams.

xhack

]]> <![CDATA[The Tyranny Of The Unbeaten]]> Because they have the biggest brand name among the five remaining unbeaten teams
Mike Cooper agrees.


Chicago Jones

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