College football championship week thread

Has the world gone so ass-backwards that Rice, Baylor, Missouri and Central Florida are all going to win conference championships in the same year?

 

Looks like this SEC title game is going to be a fun one.

 

As an Alabama fan, I'm wondering where all these Auburn fumbles were last week.

 

According to Danielson, Bama's line was a lot more about containment a while Mizzou is aiming to get into the backfield on every play. Auburn is getting a lot more big plays but it's causing them to hurry the exchanges too.

 

Gus Malzahn was the offensive coordinator on a team with Darren McFadden, Felix Jones, Peyton Hillis, and Michael Smith at RB. That team lost four games.

 

And a true freshman QB.

 

I'm certainly enjoying myself, although in the other game it's kind of fun to watch all those Texans being cold.

 

And a head coach swapping texts with a blondiful teevee news anchor during the team's most critical games, including before and at halftime of the bowl game vs. Wisconsin.

Malzahn wasn't that team's issue.

 

So if everything else holds form tonight, who gets the last BCS at-large?

So far we've got ...

1. BCS 1/ACC champ: Florida State
2. BCS 2/Big Ten champ: Ohio State
3. SEC champ: Auburn or Missouri
4. AAC champ: UCF
5. Big 12 champ: Baylor
6. Pac-12 champ: Stanford or Arizona State
7. At-large 1: Alabama (as Orange Bowl replacement for FSU)
8. At-large 2: Michigan State (as Rose Bowl replacement for Ohio State)
9. At-large 3: Clemson
10. At-large 4: ??

I'd imagine OK State played itself out of a Sugar Bowl berth by losing at home today.

So who faces Auburn/Mizzou winner? Oregon, with UCF in the Fiesta vs. Baylor?

Who else might it be? The Big Ten, SEC and ACC are already getting two, so they couldn't get another.

They're not taking a second AAC team, so it pretty much has to come from the Big 12 or Pac-12.

 

Then your only options are Oregon, Oklahoma State, or Oklahoma (if it jumps into the top 14).

 

Well played sir. Well played.

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Over/under on # of fans actually in the stands @ the Fiesta Bowl?