Comments on: Happy New Year’s for Nebraska http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2009/01/02/happy-new-years-for-nebraska/ Thoughts from The Oklahoman Sports Columnist Berry Tramel | NewsOK.com Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:13:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: David http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2009/01/02/happy-new-years-for-nebraska/comment-page-1/#comment-5928 David Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:17:56 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2009/01/02/happy-new-years-for-nebraska/#comment-5928 I watched every bowl game yesterday, heard all the commentators discuss who was going to be the national champion, in their opinion, and came to one conclusion. Although I would love to see a playoff system, if for no other reason it would mean more football to watch, still, everyone would think their team is the best and they would provide some excuse as to why their team didn't win. We all are biased toward our favorites, as was evidenced by the comments yesterday. Watching the Rose Bowl, you would have thought that you should just hand over the National Championship trophy to the Trojans. I think USC played a good game, they have good talent, and a great head coach, and they may be the best overall team in the nation, but they did get beat during the year. I think Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, or Alabama could beat them, and I know Oregon St. can. I know, they weren't healthy then, right? If USC had won all their games, they would be the best, but they didn't, and neither did Florida, OU, Texas, or Alabama. Theyfore, if Utah wins today, they should be the the National Champions, right? I know, but....... I watched every bowl game yesterday, heard all the commentators discuss who was going to be the national champion, in their opinion, and came to one conclusion. Although I would love to see a playoff system, if for no other reason it would mean more football to watch, still, everyone would think their team is the best and they would provide some excuse as to why their team didn’t win. We all are biased toward our favorites, as was evidenced by the comments yesterday. Watching the Rose Bowl, you would have thought that you should just hand over the National Championship trophy to the Trojans. I think USC played a good game, they have good talent, and a great head coach, and they may be the best overall team in the nation, but they did get beat during the year. I think Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, or Alabama could beat them, and I know Oregon St. can. I know, they weren’t healthy then, right? If USC had won all their games, they would be the best, but they didn’t, and neither did Florida, OU, Texas, or Alabama. Theyfore, if Utah wins today, they should be the the National Champions, right? I know, but…….

]]> By: Mark http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2009/01/02/happy-new-years-for-nebraska/comment-page-1/#comment-5925 Mark Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:35:26 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2009/01/02/happy-new-years-for-nebraska/#comment-5925 It was very interesting to hear Herbstreit promote USC as the national champion should OU win the BCS championship. In a segment late in the game when the cameras were trained on Kirk and Musburger, Herbstreit made the ludicrous claim that there was a general perception that the Big 12 was weak, primarily because people were always telling him that they played bad defense and MEDIOCRE OFFENSE. I was in no way surprised to hear Herbstreit spew his venom towards the Big 12, most especially OU, but enjoyed the response from Musburger who looked at Kirk in amazement and said "You've got to be kidding me". Regardless of whether you like Musburger or not it doesn't appear to me that he has his own personal agenda, as is very clear with Herbstreit. I would love to hear the sports media challenge Herbstreit and his elevated role with ESPN as the most powerful pontificator of all things related to college football. It was very interesting to hear Herbstreit promote USC as the national champion should OU win the BCS championship. In a segment late in the game when the cameras were trained on Kirk and Musburger, Herbstreit made the ludicrous claim that there was a general perception that the Big 12 was weak, primarily because people were always telling him that they played bad defense and MEDIOCRE OFFENSE.

I was in no way surprised to hear Herbstreit spew his venom towards the Big 12, most especially OU, but enjoyed the response from Musburger who looked at Kirk in amazement and said “You’ve got to be kidding me”.

Regardless of whether you like Musburger or not it doesn’t appear to me that he has his own personal agenda, as is very clear with Herbstreit.

I would love to hear the sports media challenge Herbstreit and his elevated role with ESPN as the most powerful pontificator of all things related to college football.

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