2008 Woodie Awards
Special Channukah Edition: Eight Nuggets of Knowledge!
Danny Travis
Issue date: 12/10/07 Section: Opinions
As your sports editor, I feel that it is my job to educate you on the world of sports. This is for your own good. In the near future, you will be at a cocktail party. An attractive person will approach you and strike up a conversation about current sporting events. Now you won't freeze up in front of your potential soul mate. This will happen, and you can take these gelt plated factoids straight to the bank.
-Danny Travis
1. "If ever there is a season that points to a playoff system its this one" says the television talking head. As profound as that statement may be, we have been hearing it for the last five years. There will never be a playoff system, Mr. Talking Head, no matter how hard you toot your horn on your shows.
The bowl sponsorship system makes the BCS incredibly profi table for the NCAA. The Tostitos semifinal game just doesn't have the same ring to it as the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. The bowl system is silly, college football is silly, so deal with it. I'm sure if you were geyying checks for millions and millions of dollars from these sponsors, you wouldn't have a problem with the system either.
2. While on the subject of bowl games, Missouri and Virginia Tech made me look stupid. I make a prediction that they both go to the title game, and they simultaneously collapse. Now we are stuck with Ohio State in another national title game because they performed so well against no one on the last week of the season.
3. Now for the BCS bowl predictions. I know a lot of you enjoy entering into bowl pools over the holidays for some sporting fun, but make sure you don't put money on them because that would be illegal. Especially don't put money on them if you follow my picks.
USC will prevail in the Rose Bowl over Illinois, but it will be closer than most people think, take the Illini and the points. In the Sugar Bowl, Georgia will not only cover the spread, but they will make Hawaii look like the Rainbow Warriors that they are. In the Fiesta Bowl, I see West Virginia prevailing, only because Bob Stoops is an idiot. In the Orange Bowl, take Kansas and the points over Virginia Tech, and now, I am now picking arbitrarily. And finally, in the BCS championship game, LSU will blow out Ohio State. It is a home game for LSU, and they have key players returning from injuries, and Ohio State has no problem collapsing in national title games.
-Danny Travis
1. "If ever there is a season that points to a playoff system its this one" says the television talking head. As profound as that statement may be, we have been hearing it for the last five years. There will never be a playoff system, Mr. Talking Head, no matter how hard you toot your horn on your shows.
The bowl sponsorship system makes the BCS incredibly profi table for the NCAA. The Tostitos semifinal game just doesn't have the same ring to it as the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. The bowl system is silly, college football is silly, so deal with it. I'm sure if you were geyying checks for millions and millions of dollars from these sponsors, you wouldn't have a problem with the system either.
2. While on the subject of bowl games, Missouri and Virginia Tech made me look stupid. I make a prediction that they both go to the title game, and they simultaneously collapse. Now we are stuck with Ohio State in another national title game because they performed so well against no one on the last week of the season.
3. Now for the BCS bowl predictions. I know a lot of you enjoy entering into bowl pools over the holidays for some sporting fun, but make sure you don't put money on them because that would be illegal. Especially don't put money on them if you follow my picks.
USC will prevail in the Rose Bowl over Illinois, but it will be closer than most people think, take the Illini and the points. In the Sugar Bowl, Georgia will not only cover the spread, but they will make Hawaii look like the Rainbow Warriors that they are. In the Fiesta Bowl, I see West Virginia prevailing, only because Bob Stoops is an idiot. In the Orange Bowl, take Kansas and the points over Virginia Tech, and now, I am now picking arbitrarily. And finally, in the BCS championship game, LSU will blow out Ohio State. It is a home game for LSU, and they have key players returning from injuries, and Ohio State has no problem collapsing in national title games.
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