As Jim Donnan would say: "It's chaos with a capital K." (That joke works better spoken.)
For those of you who booked your hotel rooms in Miami, you might want to check the cancellation policy. As of tonight, it looks like Georgia is headed to New Orleans. The open question is the name of the bowl, Sugar or BCS. The Rose remains a possibility, but I think it is a longshot.
So, when will we play in New Orleans? Clearly, it all comes down to the human rankings. I think it is unlikely that the computers move drastically simply based on the handful of games this weekend. Thus, it's the collusion of human voters that may deny us a shot at Ohio State and the national title. The selections, then, come down to arguments advanced and bought by human beings, flawed human beings.
By now, you've heard the boys on ESPN, the coaches, and other websites stating the arguments for and against the Dawgs. As a Georgia fan, of course I think we deserve a spot in the BCS Bowl. We've played a tough schedule that includes four ranked teams and eight bowl teams. More importantly, we are playing our best football right now, not riding the coattails of old performances or preseason rankings. In our last five games, we were dominant, leaving no doubt that we were the best team on the field. Mark Bradley buys this wholeheartedly and says we should get our shot.
With that said, I don't think we will get the matchup with the Buckeyes. Just based on logic, it doesn't make sense that we can be the national champs without being the SEC champs. I didn't think Nebraska deserved their shot in 2001 and the same goes for Oklahoma in 2003. It's just hard to get around that argument. This may sound unjust. But as Mark Richt has said before, if you lose a game, then you subject yourself to the arbitrary whims of the BCS system. The only way to avoid all this mess is not to lose. We can argue until our voices are wore bare, but we cost ourselves a national championship opportunity with a befuddling performance against South Carolina and a beatdown in Knoxville.
My heart says Georgia gets a chance, but my head says we'll be playing Hawaii on New Year's Day. So now we wait. My guess is that something will leak out tomorrow afternoon before the announcement show at 8 eastern on FOX.
Quinton
P.S. Kirk Herbstreit wants Ohio State and LSU. Is there any reason, based on his "journalism" today, that I should pay any attention to anything Kirk says?
For those of you who booked your hotel rooms in Miami, you might want to check the cancellation policy. As of tonight, it looks like Georgia is headed to New Orleans. The open question is the name of the bowl, Sugar or BCS. The Rose remains a possibility, but I think it is a longshot.
So, when will we play in New Orleans? Clearly, it all comes down to the human rankings. I think it is unlikely that the computers move drastically simply based on the handful of games this weekend. Thus, it's the collusion of human voters that may deny us a shot at Ohio State and the national title. The selections, then, come down to arguments advanced and bought by human beings, flawed human beings.
By now, you've heard the boys on ESPN, the coaches, and other websites stating the arguments for and against the Dawgs. As a Georgia fan, of course I think we deserve a spot in the BCS Bowl. We've played a tough schedule that includes four ranked teams and eight bowl teams. More importantly, we are playing our best football right now, not riding the coattails of old performances or preseason rankings. In our last five games, we were dominant, leaving no doubt that we were the best team on the field. Mark Bradley buys this wholeheartedly and says we should get our shot.
With that said, I don't think we will get the matchup with the Buckeyes. Just based on logic, it doesn't make sense that we can be the national champs without being the SEC champs. I didn't think Nebraska deserved their shot in 2001 and the same goes for Oklahoma in 2003. It's just hard to get around that argument. This may sound unjust. But as Mark Richt has said before, if you lose a game, then you subject yourself to the arbitrary whims of the BCS system. The only way to avoid all this mess is not to lose. We can argue until our voices are wore bare, but we cost ourselves a national championship opportunity with a befuddling performance against South Carolina and a beatdown in Knoxville.
My heart says Georgia gets a chance, but my head says we'll be playing Hawaii on New Year's Day. So now we wait. My guess is that something will leak out tomorrow afternoon before the announcement show at 8 eastern on FOX.
Quinton
P.S. Kirk Herbstreit wants Ohio State and LSU. Is there any reason, based on his "journalism" today, that I should pay any attention to anything Kirk says?
