{"id":1997,"date":"2007-11-24T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/24\/college-football-wackiness\/"},"modified":"2007-11-24T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T09:37:12","slug":"college-football-wackiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/24\/college-football-wackiness\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Wackiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncf\/recap?gameId=273270099\">LSU lost to Arkansas<\/a> in &#8220;overtime&#8221; yesterday (scare quotes are because the college overtime system is bizarre), becoming the latest highly-ranked team to lose to an unranked opponent. This throws the BCS championship system into chaos for the Nth time this season&#8211; by the end of the weekend, at least three of the top ten teams will have lost, and there are only two undefeated teams left. There&#8217;s never been more confusion about who is the best team in college football.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, if only there were some way to settle this. I mean, imagine if you could get, say, the top eight teams together somehow, and have them play each other, to determine which team was the best? Man, that would be cool.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just crazy talk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LSU lost to Arkansas in &#8220;overtime&#8221; yesterday (scare quotes are because the college overtime system is bizarre), becoming the latest highly-ranked team to lose to an unranked opponent. This throws the BCS championship system into chaos for the Nth time this season&#8211; by the end of the weekend, at least three of the top ten&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/24\/college-football-wackiness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">College Football Wackiness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}