I thought it was kind of a boring week.
In the first round of the playoff, all the favorites played at home, and they all won easily.
- The one game that was supposed to be kinda close, Tennessee vs Ohio State, turned into a slaughter, as THE Ohio State University won by 25.
- Indiana sort of came to life in the fourth quarter against Notre Dame, but it was too little, too late.
The New Year’s match-ups have an interesting wrinkle. As I type this, the Oregon Ducks are ranked and seeded #1, are undefeated, and are playing a team they have already beaten once – yet they are underdogs! They have to wonder what they have to do to be a favorite.
Because of the way the system protected conference champions Arizona State and Boise State, it seems to have created easy paths for Texas and Penn State to make the semi-finals. That seems unfair, in that the computer ratings show that both Penn State and Texas are 0-2 against the other top ten teams, while the other four teams still in the hunt (OSU, Notre Dame, Oregon and Georgia) all have winning records against top ten opponents, but will have to butt heads against each other instead of playing a team from a weaker conference.
The Big 10 has three teams in the elite eight and will probably have two teams in the final four. The SEC might have the other two.
I’d like to see some of them lose before they get there.