Quick, what's 'Championship Saturday'?
Is it the day they let the caddies in the pool at Bushwood?
No.
Is it the finale of the annual Pro Bowlers Association luncheon?
No.
Is it the third day of a major golf tournament that features Phil Mickelson fading from contention?
No.
According to some clown they're using over at collegefootballnews.com to blog while the regs all take their summer vacation, 'Championship Saturday' is the last day of the college football regular season.
That's a new one to me. It sounds like one of those stupid titles ESPN would make up just so they would have another excuse to slap a Home Depot logo on the screen.
"Rivalry Week" presented by Home Depot.
"Opening Week" presented by Home Depot.
"Mustache Week" presented by Home Depot.
"Postal Service Appreciation Week" presented by Home Depot.
You get the point.
Anyway, 'Championship Game Hurts SEC' rails against one of the real injustices of our time, regular season football games being played on the last day of the regular season. NOOOOOO!!
This is one of those things that annoys the shit out of me. You see buddy, Moses didn't come down from the mountain and ordain conference championship games be played on the last day of the regular season. While college football has been around since the late 1800's, conference championship games (which were created with the sole purpose of making money) have only been around for about 10 years.
For some reason the presence of additional bye weeks in the PAC-10 and Big XII is some grand atrocity that needs to be corrected by NCAA.
This is another example of how College Football fails to obtain an even playing field for the teams competing for a National Championship. It is even more impressive that the SEC has managed to defy such serious odds to win back-to-back national titles. It is up to the men in charge of the College Football to fix this advantage and give Championship Saturday back to the fans of college football. It is supposed to be a special day in college football, not just another Saturday. Give it back to the fans; they deserve it.
Whatever dude. This is so ludicrous it doesn't justify much analysis. Let me get this straight, the NCAA has absolutely NOTHING to do with conference championship games or the national title for that matter. In fact, one of the ONLY things the NCAA does when it comes to college football is mandate that all games be played between this date and that date. You want them to step in and put rules around scheduling regular season games now as opposed to conference title games?
I know it's July and we're all jonesing for some football but this is beyond lame.
The most amazing aspect of the piece is that the guy actually praises the Big Ten.
This won’t happen often in this column, but the Big 10 deserves some credit for keeping their games during the regular season. While the rest of the non-championship game BCS teams seem to be exploiting the system, the Big 10 is upholding its tradition by playing its regular season games in November when they should be played. The Big 10 is doing at least one thing the right way and they deserve some credit for doing so.
So we've got that going for us, which is nice.
2 comments:
I opened AND closed that one with Caddyshack! Impressive.
It’s a 12 paragraph whinefest about how the SEC gets screwed because other conferences schedule regular season games during “championship Saturday”. He wants the NCAA to not allow those games to take place the first weekend of December because it allows teams to have two off weeks during the course of the 14 week season.
I say “shut up already”. It’s not the Pac 10s fault that the SEC plays a championship game. They’re scheduling games within the ncaa allotted 14 week season. He also claims that “five PAC 10 teams had 3 Saturdays off in the fall this past season and they had to play 12 games in a 14-week span.” Please explain that math to me because the last time I checked, 12+3=15…..not 14.
I think it could give conferences with a championship game a slight advantage. Look at two years ago. UM was idle for two weeks while Florida slid through the SEC title game and jumped over UM to get to the nat. title game. What if the OSU/UM game had been the same day? Who’s to say what would have happened with the voters, but having that delicious shootout game between OSU and UM fresh in the voters’ minds instead of erased from their short term memories could have changed the title game picture.
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