Michigan vs Washington... as it should be!
While both games were close, the better teams ended up winning in both contests. Moreover, you get the feeling that had these two games were played over 10 times, that the vast majority of the times you would see the exact same outcomes, even as the final scores were close.
In the Rose bowl, Alabama took advantage of some special play blunders to be in a position to win at the end. A missed extra point and field goal along with a muffed punt by Michigan provided an eleven point swing. But offensively Alabama never really seemed to get in sync and it simply felt like Michigan was the better team most of the game. The fact that Alabama was leading at the end seemed more of a fluke. But I have to say... that final 4th down up the middle quarterback run seemed about as lame as could be. If I was a Alabama fan, that would have turned me inside out to see the game end on that spectacular failure.
In the Sugar Bowl, Washington never trailed in the sort of game you expected between Washington and Texas. Texas had plenty of chances to win at the end, but I still feel like the better team came out on top. I am sure it was fairly even statistically, but Washington seemed more in control and has now quietly put together a 21 game win streak, longest college football. When you win that many games in a row, there is an air about you that you feel about Washington. Always sort of felt like the game was their game to win.
I still don't know if Texas and Alabama were legitimately the teams deserving to be playing these games. Obviously Georgia made a case that they were a top four team, but were playing against mostly the FSU second string. FSU failed to even "try" to make a case with 17 players either opting out or entering the portal. FSU played without their top two quarterbacks, their top three running backs, their top four Wide Receivers, and were missing several defensive starters as well. I think they played the water boy and a buffed cheerleader at one point just to have the bodies. Meanwhile, Ohio State scored 3 points with a true freshman at QB. While Oregon won convincingly against Liberty they had two previous losses to Washington. Neither of those teams really made a case for a spot. At the end of the day, Georgia, and FSU ended the season as the only one loss teams left.
Had Georgia beaten Alabama in the SEC championship, there is little doubt in we would have seen the four undefeated conference champions and would have had none of the speculation. Likely we would have seen Georgia vs FSU (with FSU first team playing this time) and the Michigan Washington matchup in the other Semifinal.
Well something democrats and republicans can come together on - insider stock trading. Both sides well represented. I suspect other family members probably did pretty good too.
So some of them are simply bad investors and some are cheating like nobody's business!
Someone needs to start a congressional stock index to invest in
I guess with this rule teams will need to consider using the victory formation earlier than they used to and then punting out of bounds with the remaining 5 or 10 seconds (50 left minus 40 timeclock and the time for the punt). What should have been a 99.999 percent chance of winning changed to 50/50 near the end. Maybe even worse for Washington. Would have been a sole crushing defeat.
Did anyone notice the odd clock rule/ruling at the end of that Washington Texas game? When Johnson was tackled... Texas had no time outs and there was a 15 second difference between the game clock and play clock. Normal circumstance,... by the time the punt is fielded, Texas should have gotten the ball with no more than 10 second left probably well inside their own 20.
But they stopped the clock for an officials time out because of the Johnson injury. They give Texas the choice of a 10 second run off because they are on defense? Then rather than start the game clock when they restart the play clock. they wait till the snap. Not only that, but they "adjusted"…