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The Future of College Football (Humor)

This article was inspired by an appearance by CBS broadcaster Tim Brando on the Tony Barnhart Show. Brando called for congressional action to create a college football playoff...

Written by Lou Vozza about 26 days ago 155 reads 0 comments
Top 10 Dumb Reasons for a College Football Playoff

10. Playoffs will ruin the importance and excitement of the regular season games The NFL has a very inclusive playoff system, and its regular season games get much higher television ratings than college games...

Written by Lou Vozza about about 1 month ago 447 reads 41 comments
2009's Top Five Under The Radar College Football Players From the South

This list is South/SEC oriented because those are the teams I watch the most. Please feel free to add your own players in the comments section. They won't let me publish this article unless this introduction is at least 300 characters long...

Written by Lou Vozza about about 1 month ago 494 reads 3 comments
Why Alabama Will Not Finish The Year In The Top Ten

It's been fashionable in the blogosphere to rank Alabama ahead of Florida ever since Week One, when Alabama handily beat the preseason number seven ranked Virginia Tech...

Written by Lou Vozza about about 1 month ago 77 reads 2 comments
Top 10 Silly College Football Team Names, Part Two

Last year I wrote a top 10 silly team names list that remains my most widely read post. It was clear from the many comments I received that I had barely scratched the surface of this fascinating topic...

Written by Lou Vozza about about 1 month ago 632 reads 13 comments
How College Football Is Like Golf

It's hard to imagine two sports more different in their fundamental nature than college football and golf, yet they share much in common...

Written by Lou Vozza about about 1 month ago 33 reads 3 comments
Best and Worst Golf TV Announcers

BEST Johnny Miller Miller is a man among boys in this business. Always insightful, consistently makes great calls, not afraid to be politically incorrect. Oddly subversive for a straight laced Mormon type...

Written by Lou Vozza about about 1 month ago 390 reads 10 comments
Why Tiger Woods Hates The President's Cup

Tiger Woods was asked yesterday how the President's Cup is different from the Ryder Cup. He said it was different because the fans are very familiar with all the non U.S. players, who all play on the PGA Tour...

Written by Lou Vozza about 2 months ago 591 reads 5 comments
Why Preseason Polls Are The Most Accurate Polls

Every time there is an upset of a top ten team in September, a chorus of complaints arise about the preseason rankings...

Written by Lou Vozza about 2 months ago 31 reads 0 comments
Though the Fedex Cup Is Half Full, PGA Tour Playoffs Concept Feels Empty

It's been three years now since the PGA Tour revamped its season end with the "PGA Playoffs for the Fedex Cup". Most commentators focus on how the points are distributed and how to best tweak ...

Written by Lou Vozza about 2 months ago 128 reads 1 comments
College Football Guide To the Best TV Games Week 4

THURSDAY NIGHT No. 4 Ole Miss (-3) at South Carolina Thursday night broadcasts are the best thing that's happened to college football since the invention of the forward pass. Untested Reb's getting no respect from oddsmakers...

Written by Lou Vozza about 2 months ago 172 reads 5 comments
College Football: Best And Worst Of Week Three

Best:Jacory Harris This is the second big week in a row for Harris. It looks like new Miami offensive coordinator Whipple learned a lot in his five years in the NFL...

Written by Lou Vozza about 2 months ago 218 reads 3 comments
In Defense of Florida's Schedule

Outrage at Florida's No. 1 ranking is spreading among the uninformed and envious. Many fans of lower ranked teams feel that Florida should be penalized for starting their season against two relatively ...

Written by Lou Vozza about 2 months ago 915 reads 95 comments
Which Team Has the Hardest Out-of-Conference Schedule?

At the heart of the controversy over using a polling system to choose a champion is the fact that strength of schedule considerations often trump outright W-L records...

Written by Lou Vozza about 3 months ago 238 reads 14 comments
Was Tiger Woods Too Conservative at the PGA Championship?

On the radio this morning I heard Brandon Chamblee and Tim Rosaforte conduct yet another post mortem on Tiger Wood's failure to win the PGA Championship last Sunday...

Written by Lou Vozza about 3 months ago 483 reads 12 comments
Is 2009 Tiger Woods Best Year Ever?

Tiger Woods surprising defeat at the hands of Y.E. Yang last Sunday has caused me to once again reflect on the career of this great golfer. I have been a keen watcher of Tiger since his 1997 Masters victory...

Written by Lou Vozza about 3 months ago 437 reads 47 comments
Which Sport Has the Most Exclusive Playoff System?

The answer, of course, is Division 1-A college football, where only two out of 119 teams are eligible for the two team end of year playoff...

Written by Lou Vozza about 10 months ago 133 reads 19 comments
How the Arizona Cardinals' Success Devalues the NFL's Regular Season

If the Arizona Cardinals win the Super Bowl, it will be a well-earned and well-deserved victory. They will also be the undisputed champions of the NFL...

Written by Lou Vozza about 10 months ago 247 reads 26 comments
Why Florida Won the BCS Championship Game

For a Gator fan, this was almost a perfect game. Although a blowout would have been more satisfying, consider this: Tebow played well enough to win, but cost himself so much money in the NFL ...

Written by Lou Vozza about 11 months ago 326 reads 9 comments
Attorney General of Utah to sue BCS?

See article Utah to sue BCS This is what I'm talking about when I say a poll based eight or 16 team playoff won't work. Once you start a playoff, even a plus one, you have to let all 11 conference champions in...

Written by Lou Vozza about 11 months ago 111 reads 2 comments
Why Utah Should Not Be National Champion

The sixth ranked Utah Utes just completed a dominating victory over the fourth ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, a team that spent ten weeks of the season ranked either first or second in the country...

Written by Lou Vozza about 11 months ago 1,386 reads 79 comments
Why the AP Poll Can't Declare a Legitimate National Champion

I am a traditionalist in that I do not approve of the two team playoff that was created in 1998. I am in favor returning to the way things were prior to 1966, when the final polls were published in early December before the bowls...

Written by Lou Vozza about 11 months ago 312 reads 2 comments
A Modest Proposal to Improve the BCS

Like it or not, the BCS system is going to be around for a long time. All playoff proposals are doomed to failure because they pressure the BCS conferences to relinquish their power and distribute revenue more equitably to the non-BCS conferences...

Written by Lou Vozza about 11 months ago 149 reads 1 comments
Matt Grothe: The Most Underrated Player in College Football

The most underrated player is...drumroll please...South Florida's Matt Grothe. Is Grothe better than Pat White? I'm a big Pat White fan and think he deserves to be included in arguments about which college QB is the greatest ever...

Written by Lou Vozza about 11 months ago 353 reads 11 comments
Top Five Second Half of the Season Meltdowns

1. Vanderbilt The Commodores started 5-0, beating two Top 25 teams, and rising to a national ranking of No. 13. An all too predictable 1-6 finish brought home the meltdown trophy. 2. South Florida On Oct...

Written by Lou Vozza about 11 months ago 132 reads 3 comments

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Lou Vozza Article Archive

The Future of College Football (Humor)

Top 10 Dumb Reasons for a College Football Playoff

2009's Top Five Under The Radar College Football Players From the South

Why Alabama Will Not Finish The Year In The Top Ten

Top 10 Silly College Football Team Names, Part Two

How College Football Is Like Golf

Best and Worst Golf TV Announcers

Why Tiger Woods Hates The President's Cup

Why Preseason Polls Are The Most Accurate Polls

Though the Fedex Cup Is Half Full, PGA Tour Playoffs Concept Feels Empty

College Football Guide To the Best TV Games Week 4

College Football: Best And Worst Of Week Three

In Defense of Florida's Schedule

Which Team Has the Hardest Out-of-Conference Schedule?

Was Tiger Woods Too Conservative at the PGA Championship?

Is 2009 Tiger Woods Best Year Ever?

Which Sport Has the Most Exclusive Playoff System?

How the Arizona Cardinals' Success Devalues the NFL's Regular Season

Why Florida Won the BCS Championship Game

Attorney General of Utah to sue BCS?

Why Utah Should Not Be National Champion

Why the AP Poll Can't Declare a Legitimate National Champion

A Modest Proposal to Improve the BCS

Matt Grothe: The Most Underrated Player in College Football

Top Five Second Half of the Season Meltdowns

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