I just watch our Lady Longhorns destroy Minnesota in the National Semifinals. We looked amazing. Destiny Hooker is the real deal. The Lady Longhorns took the Minnesota Golden Gophers in straight sets to win the Semifinals 3-0. At one point in the final set we went on a 10-1 run. The Lady Longhorns are 3 points from being undefeated, losing to Iowa State earlier in the season. We might get to see the tower lit up with a number 1 twice in a 3 week period. With volleyball kicking butt, and the men's football, basketball, and baseball teams being as dominate as they are, it is a good year to be a Longhorn. I guess begin the celebration thread! Hook'em!

Oh yeah Penn State and Hawaii are playing for the second spot in the National Championship Game on ESPN 2 right now at 8:00 pm if you want to check out the competition.

I actually found these rankings interesting, and I admit that I checked them everyday to see who was where. I was not expecting to see us till around the 1-10 range. The scoring went as followed :

National title: 25 points

Berth in one of the major bowls: 10

Major bowl win: 10

Best win/loss record in conference regular season: 10

Final AP top-5 finish: 10

Heisman winner: 8

Final AP top 6-10 finish: 6

Conference title championship-game bonus: 5

Final AP top 11-25 finish: 4

Bowl appearance: 3

Bowl win: 3

10-win season: 2

Week as AP No. 1: 2

Win over AP No. 1: 1

Each consensus All-American: 1

First-round NFL draft pick (since '70): 1

Losing season: minus-2

Each year of television ban: minus-1

Each year of postseason ban: minus-2

Each year of overall probation: minus-1

Each year of financial-aid penalty: minus-1

Each year of recruiting penalties: minus-1

Each penalty of "show cause action:" minus-2

Here the 6-10 rankings

If we hadn't got screwed over in heisman voting with VY and Colt, and if we would've gone to and won the national championship this year (like we rightfully should have) we would be 6 ahead of Alabama. I know its just a bunch of number crunching, but it is a fun read when there is no football going on right now.

I am sure everyone looks at espn and probably has already read this little section, but it was the first time I have read anyone besides longhorn supporters actually back up the Horns. It is nice to hear someone use some logic instead of riding an emotional bull crap high. REMEMBER THE COTTON BOWL.

Here's the link

Sorry this has really been bothering me lately.

Its a shame that the only way people think college football can be interesting is to have such a fickle system to make fans pumped. They should root die hard for their respective teams to win no matter whats at stake. If it takes the current system to make fans root hard for their teams, then college football is in bad shape. A loss should crush a fan no matter whats at stake. Are we not just as pissed if our basketball team losses a game. I am a Cowboys fan, and when they lose I am pissed. Its your team, act like a fan. With the current BCS system, if a team losses 2 games or more, you see them give up on their teams. Sure the top couple of teams fan still get all nuts, but the rest of the football community goes into a funk. Tell me how that is good for college football. Fans no longer feeling their teams are worth rooting for ... that's good how?

 Every announcer has been running their mouths about how a playoff system would ruin the regular season. I don't think it would at all. We see so many teams play crap games at the beginning of the season. If every team played an awesome game in the beginning of the season that would be infinitely times more fun than watching the a season where you knew one loss meant near death for a team.

OK so knowing every weekend counts and could be a potential National Championship Game killer makes those games fun to watch, and makes upsets that much cooler. If you team gets upset you should be pissed no matter what the circumstance, and if someone else team gets upset you laugh at them and talk crap. But think about it, every week would still be an elimination game from the playoff system. If you mess up during the season you could still take yourself out of the playoffs. OK and 8 team playoff system - You take the winner of each BCS conference and 2 at large teams. We would still have to play our asses off to make those playoffs. Making EVERY game a big game still.

It would also make the conference races much more fun to watch, knowing that your team could win and have a chance to pull out a National Championship game. Remember high school football? Were we not crushed when our high school lost a game? The thought of making the playoffs and winning state still stayed in our minds, and made us continue to be die hard for our schools. Those non-district games against good opposition pumped you up so much and were fun to watch. If you lost the game you were crushed and pissed, but you knew your team could still pull through and be the best at the end of the season. Why is that system so bad? Did that make those early games less fun, or the conference game less meaningful? No if anything, it makes everything better.

I know that if we played a Florida or a USC or maybe both to start the season, I would have a hell of a lot of fun watching and going nuts for those games, and still have a hell of a lot of fun and go nuts for conference games. The media tries to completely ignore this fact.

This would also bring back the relevance of Conference Titles. It almost seems like people don't give a crap about these anymore if there is not a National Championship to go with it. Back in the day, a conference championship was what got you into a bowl game. Now you can get into one without being the head honcho in your conference. We could still keep the other bowls and have those for our pleasure, but now winning the conference is that much more significant. Lets make the conference race fun again!

So lets look at this in terms of what it would hurt and what it would help. This is what a playoff system with bowl games still available would do.

Conference Race: Helps, makes them more meaningful.

Pre-Conference Games: Helps, more fun games to watch.

Non-BCS Bowl Games: Push, still fun to watch, doesn't change anything.

Top Bowl Games: Helps because you still have to play your balls of to get there, and you get more awesome Top Bowl games. Some BCS games aren't even interesting because bad teams get there, but with the chance of those teams getting into the National Championship game those games actually become interesting.

National Championship Game: Helps. You finally get the two truly best teams into the title game, and no one can argue.

I hate to say this, but if anyone who disagrees with this has lost the true meaning of being a fan. Rooting for your team no matter whats at stake. The logic against this system is stupid, but unfortunately no one who matters will ever read this post and see all the logic that is in it. It would be a shame if teams as good as Texas/Florida/Alabama/Texas Tech/Oklahoma this year got screwed out of National Championship contention. Ask Auburn how that feels. Tell me, how is that good for the game.

Until then, Hook'em Horns. Keep pounding it out and hope for the best in the current bull crap system in place.