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lege football playoff hangover quickie the inaugural college football playoff went better than i think anyone could have ever imagined the defending unbeaten champ was vanquished in a fashion we haven t seen in a college football championship situation in 20 years tommie frazier runs over florida in 1995 the dynastic program and conference was vanquished by a team that many most argued didn t even deserve to be in the field coached by a conference ex pat it s as much possibly more about the losers florida state alabama as it is about the winners oregon ohio state both games were amazing to watch as many have pointed out in the absence of the 4 team playoff we would have gotten fsu and alabama for the title this makes last night s outcomes even more amazing and now we have how do you stop the ducks versus sure keep doubting the buckeyes it seems like it ll be oregon in a rout the inevitable conclusion to the ducks manifest destiny but if ohio state can out muscle alabama there is certainly a why not to the game and we have the end of the mythology of the sec certainly the 2006 2014 version critics of the sec s haughtiness will point to new year s day 2015 for years and we have the start of a glorious new era in college football with a playoff system that produced drama infused games and highly entertaining outcomes i ll give the last word to spencer hall who had a wonderful morning after homily about what happened last night concluding this all happened in the same day and let s never do this any differently college football d s posted by dan shanoff at 1 02 2015 10 10 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 23 2014 14 great sportswriting reads for 2014 back during the quickish era my favorite thing was the year end best of sportswriting list the first one was in 2011 quickish 11 for 11 and it proved pretty popular not to mention enjoyable to prepare you can t find that original list anymore but the tradition lives on in 14 and the underlying sentiment extends into another year sportswriting has never been better to be sure 14 is an absurd artificial constraint there are many more worthy entries as my overworked browser tabs and gut busting pocket account indicate still here are 14 of my favorite pieces of sportswriting this year listed alphabetically by author katie baker grantland the cold never bothered him anyway chris ballard si com twilight the saga jane coaston edsbs on women and sports bryan curtis grantland travonte s party steven godfrey sb nation meet the bag man spencer hall sb nation the istanbul derby amanda hess espn com just cheer baby greg howard deadspin the big book of black quarterbacks sarah marshall the believer remote control brian phillips grantland diamonds in the rough paul sonne and anton troianovski wall street journal here s the skinny on nbc s olympic latte secret louisa thomas grantland together we make football wright thompson espnfc com sketches from the world cup don van natta espn com jerry football again 14 is a dumb constraint and i lament the things i don t include as much as i enjoy the things i do here are a few under also receiving votes chris ballard si haverford oops flinder boyd newsweek the birdman s vengeful ghost flinder boyd foxsports com run and gun jeremy collins sb nation 13 ways of looking at greg maddux kathy dobie gq the undefeated champions of defeat city jason fagone grantland dropped david fleming espn com nothing to see here eva holland sb nation wilderness women jesse katz la magazine escape from cuba michael kruse sb nation the right thing to do vs the state of florida erik malinowski foxsports com pitchman jr moehringer espn com the final walk off brian phillips grantland sea of crises alan seigel sports on earth sabre rattler susan shepard sb nation double t s last ride wright thompson espn com portrait of a serial winner wright thompson espn com section o row 61 tommy tomlinson espn com you can t quit cold turkey wells tower gq who wants to shoot an elephant seth wickersham espn com 30 yards and cloud of dust and please feel free to tweet at me danshanoff with any of your particular favorites for other great year end lists check out these collections from longreads longform sb nation foxsports com s erik malinowski and espn s kevin van valkenburg and subscribe to van natta s weekly reads newsletter also if you re curious here is a link to last year s 13 for 13 finally sincere thanks for your support of this newsletter this year subscribe here posted by dan shanoff at 12 23 2014 09 05 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday december 08 2014 12 08 monday quickie alabama oregon fsu ohio state i m with spencer hall on this madison bumgarner is si sportsman of the year no quibbles only because the event of 2014 was the world cup i would give runner up to tim howard nfl sunday the super bowl pairing is coming from the pats seahawks and packers the two college hoops wins from the past week that i m filing away for march duke over wisconsin in madison and arizona over gonzaga in tucson on a personal note i am so saddened by the death of olivia barker a standout usa today reporter who was my journalism protege as we liked to joke back in high school my deepest condolences go out to her family friends and colleagues and especially her husband and 5 year old son d s posted by dan shanoff at 12 08 2014 12 19 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday december 07 2014 12 07 final cfb hangover quickie ok so alabama and oregon are obvious for the college football playoff foursome fsu gets my vote as much as i d enjoy the schadenfreude because i can t fathom an unbeaten defending national champ not making the playoff field that s three that fourth spot the one that s going to get decimated by alabama should not be ohio state the big ten was a farce this season and ohio state lost to virginia tech barely a bowl team it s the worst loss among playoff contender resumes so it s down to tcu and baylor which is nearly impossible tcu has a slightly better overall resume baylor beat tcu head to head here s where i net out and i ll admit it s simplistic what s the point if the tiebreaker for extremely similar resumes isn t well who won when they played each other i know baylor has engaged a pr firm to much derision to help lobby their case that was a waste of money i think it s a very simple message we played a playoff game with tcu and won and i know i am clearly not discounting nearly enough that baylor beat tcu in waco not in fort worth or on a neutral field this wasn t a true playoff between the teams like we got with alabama mizzou oregon arizona ohio state wisconsin or fsu georgia tech tcu of course should simply sit tight with you re right committee resume matters foursome i d pick 1 alabama 2 oregon 3 fsu 4 baylor but if the committee goes with tcu over baylor i won t be outraged personally i d rather see tcu play alabama or oregon than see baylor play alabama or oregon i will be slightly more outraged if the committee decides to sidestep tcu vs baylor entirely and goes with ohio state that s just a cop out because osu s resume is so flimsy and if they keep tcu and take ohio state over fsu i will merely chuckle at the inanity of it all ohio state fans in 2002 sure had no problem with close wins in games they probably should ve lost foursome i think will be picked 1 alabama 2 oregon 3 tcu 4 fsu i think the committee will punish baylor for its seemingly soft strength of schedule nevermind that ohio state s conference schedule was a joke i can t see a scenario where they drop tcu from 3 to out after tcu destroyed a team they needed to destroy i can t see a scenario where the committee excludes an unbeaten defending national champ for a team from a mediocre conference with a really ugly loss on their resume but it could happen a few takeaways this is still way better than a clean two team decision that would have left us with alabama and oregon and not even a nominal discussion about the others except maybe regional outrage about snubbing an unbeaten defending champ the problem with the four team solution isn t the argument at the margin it s the way it basically locks in at the top here s what i mean if you give alabama and oregon and even urban s ohio state in a big ten year that isn t beyond mediocre an annual mulligan for that one fluky loss rather than having that fluky loss seemingly derail their title chances that will be three of your four playoff teams almost every year short of fsu going unbeaten and crashing the party which is unlikely in non jameis years the worry is less about who gets snubbed than creating an enduring and boring three team playoff oligopoly of alabama oregon ohio state thanks to a system that offers a built in mulligan we re getting an 8 team playoff sooner than you think as always post selection sound and fury will signify nothing and we ll all settle in for the novel three game process to determine a national champ of whom we will all universally recognize d s posted by dan shanoff at 12 07 2014 09 54 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday december 01 2014 12 01 monday mania quickie if the college football season ended today only one more week to say that my playoff foursome would be alabama oregon florida state and tcu if baylor throttles kansas state i could see them jumping tcu have a hard time seeing ohio state with a qb3 beating wisconsin the sec has cannibalized itself absolutely on board with everyone else saying that yesterday s pats packers game will end up being prelude to a super bowl rematch i m ready for the johnny manziel era in cleveland kobe hard not to imagine that will muschamp ends up as defensive coordinator at auburn and probably too much to hope that ole miss hugh freeze ends up at florida love mo ne davis being tabbed as si for kids sports kid of the year she s arguably worthy of sports person of the year for sports illustrated full stop by the way si for kids is a phenomenal magazine not a great magazine a phenomenal one if you have kids it s a must have great news for my friends at sb nation and vox media about their big new funding round this chris rock q a is as good as folks are saying d s posted by dan shanoff at 12 01 2014 10 35 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 27 2014 11 27 giving thanks quickie let s start with the usual caveat this is a flimsy list of sports related things i m thankful for specifically from this past year the big things i m thankful for my family my health my friends the life i get to lead go without question as always this list is clearly incomplete mo ne davis obsessive world cup consumption madison bumgarner in game 7 adam silver s resolve becky hammon s new gig michael sam s moment russell wilson richard sherman s rant seeing uconn women s hoops in person florida s final four run watching peak spurs in june kevin durant s mvp speech kliff kingsbury at sxsw charlie strong at texas casper mattresses nuzzel launched in 2014 app i use most serial rooting for paul pierce wait what northwestern beating notre dame two more teams for a college football playoff great sportswriting quickish 14 for 14 tbd watching my kids play sports tinyletter subscribe the wizards playoff run most of all thanks to you for your continued support of this blog the newsletter and all of the other things i m futzing around with more than a decade after i first connected with many of you i appreciate it more than ever d s posted by dan shanoff at 11 27 2014 08 43 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday november 24 2014 11 24 monday monday quickie yes that odell beckham jr catch was the play of the year in the nfl and a wildly fun time on the internet last night you can already see it coming the cfb playoff committee will snub mississippi state for regional balance probably ohio state nevermind that the big ten is terrible this season look at the red sox hanley and maybe sandoval i m not sure i d pay hanley that much money but sandoval feels like a solid pick up my wizards beating the cavs on friday night wasn t the revelation although it was extremely fun to watch it was my wiz beating the bucks the next night a game they historically always lose so intrigued by espn s over the top play with the cricket world cup it ll be very successful i m betting but what does that even mean i m actually not so sure for those wondering why media companies have never created a successful social platform i would ask them to remember that fantasy sports via espn yahoo and cbs have been pretty successful as social platforms if you want to quibble that espn s platform was built by starwave a hybrid media technology company i ll take your point i lived it but starwave was closer to a media co than not d s posted by dan shanoff at 11 24 2014 03 48 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday november 16 2014 11 16 cfb hangover quickie four team playoff if the season ended today alabama oregon fsu tcu it s hard for me not to give a second spot to an sec team mississippi state lost by 5 on the road at alabama the best team in the country it is crazy to think that georgia is a confounding loss to florida away from absolutely being in the playoff mix the other contenders are flawed fsu had trouble with miami tcu had trouble with kansas for god s sake baylor beat kansas by 46 oregon s best resume fodder arizona st just lost to oregon st but if all three win out they re in they control their own fate baylor and ohio state are theoretically in the mix but including them would undermine any claim that the playoff committee values strength of schedule the murkiness at the top is probably good for the sport the only constant is that alabama still rules and giving them a once a season mulligan only tilts things in their favor more next week s most consequential game the schedule sure doesn t look promising then again you could have said the same thing about this week except for the alabama msu game two other notes northwestern shocks notre dame in south bend the wildcats 1995 win there was the most meaningful sports event of my lifetime this one was not nearly as unlikely but still extremely unlikely it s a season maker for northwestern and an indictment of nd and fsu melvin gordon as someone who loves superlatives being able to watch or flip over to a player setting the single game rushing record was pretty awesome what wisconsin has done at running back over the past 20 years is remarkable enjoy a high quality nfl sunday d s posted by dan shanoff at 11 16 2014 08 56 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook 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