UnluckyforSome

Maybe. I do think that he would be happiest doing just that, something he knows and loves, if he were to return to coaching. Stranger things have happened, and we may certainly have an opening in a few weeks, but I don't think he would return. Maybe a special consultant type of role.

I don't disagree. I very much think that is the hope and the intent. March Madness in December.

But that has always been the question. Does having 8 teams that have no realistic shot at winning the tournament help to define the tippy top? It seems more like a battle of attrition then. Well, this team ran the gauntlet of inferior opponents, so it is best. In that case, why stop at 12? Have the entire top 25 battle it out. I guess what I am saying is I like more games as much as everyone else. This doesn't work for me though, and doesn't offer the compelling contests that we expect from playoff football.

I would say there is not a single team outside of the top 2 or 3 that have a chance, so why have all the others in to begin with? Pointless games except for 1 huge item..$$$$$.

I don't care 1 bit for Tennessee, but I am absolutely not going to wish OSU wins

Of course. As originally stated, there is a push to make this akin to the basketball tournament, which it cannot and will not ever be. I would rather see the old way that everyone thought was unfair, and have bowls and votes after everything was over, than sit through these games that are there to sell me soda, cars and medicines.

I completely agree with that, on the other hand, specific to this year, a 3 loss SEC team still has 3 losses and I am not convinced they should be in a conversation about a "National Champion."

Then it becomes, as Finebaum has a bit sarcastically said, the Alabama Invitational.

It could be. There will certainly be something for the Alabama crowd to gripe about. There has been a real emphasis on trying to create the same excitement for this that is a part of the basketball tournament. The thing is, we have seen the little guys in college football already fail repeatedly to knock off the big programs, so I am not sure why expanding the field to officially include them would necessarily bring different results. There's already talk here and there about expanding it further to 16, and there is no good reason for that either.

Too bad SMU. Just not your day.

Supposedly, Gruden called the Jets to thank them for getting Jenkins out of the division.

No one here really talks much Panthers unless they are winning. SEC football, that's another story completely. Lo and behold, we will get the game here.

I would be more inclined to watch any of those other games over Panthers-Cardinals. There is no reason to sit through that mess. Complete waste of time.