Pick the BCS Bowl Results (deadline was Aug. 1st 2008)

[BB73]

Name the winner and loser in each of the 2009 (end of the 2008 season) BCS Bowl games.

EDIT - I decided to change the scoring system, since nobody has picked yet.

5 points - for each of your 10 teams that make a BCS Bowl Game
2 points - for each team that you picked the correct BCS Game for
2 points - for each team that you correctly picked to be in the BCS Title Game (in addition to the 2 points just mentioned)
2 points - for each of your 5 winning teams that wins a BCS Game
2 points - for picking the winner of the BCS Title Game (in addition to the 2 points just mentioned)

So correctly picking the BCS Champion will result in points for each of the above reasons (13 total)

The contest will be open until August 1st.

The poster who scores the most points will receive $100,000 vCash after the bowls in January. This will be split if there's a tie.

Please make your picks look like this (these are NOT my picks ):

Rose: Minnesota over Stanford
Fiesta: Baylor over Idaho
Sugar: Vanderbilt over Indiana
Orange: Duke over Syracuse
BCS Title: Arizona over Army

[sandgk]

Can we have an option for season voided due to legal troubles?

Lawmakers want probe to determine if the BCS is an illegal enterprise.

Forget government corruption or corporate fraud. Three members of Congress want the Justice Department to investigate whether college football’s Bowl Championship Series is an illegal enterprise.
Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, are introducing a resolution rejecting the oft-criticized bowl system as an illegal restriction on trade. The resolution would require Justice’s antitrust division to investigate whether the system violates federal law.
The measure also would put Congress on record as supporting a college football playoff.
“Who elected these NCAA people? Who are they to decide who competes for the championship?” Abercrombie said at a press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill, gripping a souvenir University of Hawaii football.
Abercrombie said the matter is worthy of federal review because college football is big business with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.

“It’s money. That’s what this is all about,” he said.

Now, credit where credit is due - he did get the last part of that dead right.

[HailToMichigan]

"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress." .... and introduce legislation calling for the Justice Department to put aside criminal-catching, crime-investigation and the like, and look into those terrorists in the BCS.

I like this one especially:

“Who elected these NCAA people? Who are they to decide who competes for the championship?”

Yes indeed. Who the hell does the NCAA think they are, setting up a system to determine the NCAA championship? What stupidity.

If anything, they ought to be investigating the NCAA for March Madness and leave the bowl system alone. Any group that comes up with enough funding and a location can apply to hold a bowl game. But the NCAA monopolizes the basketball championship. Down with the capitalist whore selection committees! Down with the corporate pigs!

[TheIronColonel]

I believe there was already an antitrust lawsuit filed by a bunch of the non-BCS schools some years ago, which lead to the compromise that expanded the system and let at-large teams in. For all of his questionable judgment and articles, Mandel has a great book that goes into some depth on the topic.

[Dryden]

Originally Posted by BB73

Please make your picks look like this (these are NOT my picks ):

Rose: Minnesota over Stanford
Fiesta: Baylor over Idaho
Sugar: Vanderbilt over Indiana
Orange: Duke over Syracuse
BCS Title: Arizona over Army

That doesn't seem fair! We have to enter those dogs for our picks, but you get to pick something else?

This contest is rigged!

[BB73]

Originally Posted by Dryden

That doesn't seem fair! We have to enter those dogs for our picks, but you get to pick something else?

This contest is rigged!

You can use those 10 teams in any combination - is that better?