In this week’s episode, Dave and Ryan discuss the sloppy BCS National Championship game and look ahead to NFL’s divisional round of the playoffs.
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Show Notes
After waiting 37 days to see No. 1 Auburn play No. 2 Oregon in Monday night’s Tostitos BCS National Championship Game, we ended up watching 55 minutes of what looked more like the Toilet Bowl and only about five minutes of what we actually hoped to see. It was hard to view the game without a deflated feeling, because you knew the game might have been so much more. NFL conference champions earning a bye wait two weeks before playing in the Super Bowl, and college basketball’s two finalists from a 68-team bracket wait about 48 hours before playing a championship game. No sport waits as long as college football to decide its champion. While the SUL cast believes Auburn and Oregon were the two teams most deserving, the ridiculous layoff is just more evidence that you cannot spell BCS without BS.
The NFL playoffs move and and Dave and Ryan cannot wait for this weekend’s games. The sports world is treated to Baltimore at Pittsburgh, Green Bay at Atlanta, New York Jets at New England and last, and possibly least, Seattle at Chicago. Baltimore won the first meeting with Pittsburgh thanks to a comeback victory led by Joe Flacco, but lost the second meeting mainly due to the return of Ben Roethlisberger. Round 3 should be one heck of a hard-hitting affair. Matt Ryan has a career 20-2 record at the Georgia Dome (with his only losses to the Denver Broncos his rookie year and the Saints this season). Aaron Rodgers isn’t the greatest in close games. This game figures to be very close and we like the home team. The Jets get a real test this week. After beating the Indianapolis Colts in Indy after a last second field goal, the Jets go to New England to play the 14-2 Patriots. The Jets may be the most overrated team in the NFL, and they sure talk a good game, but we don’t think they can back it up against Tom Terrific this week. In a tough division, the Bears came out on top, overcoming plenty of flaws as the season went on. As great as the Seahawks beating the Saints was, we can’t get over the fact that they’re in the playoffs with a sub-.500 record.
Enjoy!
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