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By doing so, it could open up scenarios where warm-weather teams could go into a cold-weather site and see how well they could do.Here are the playoff seedings under this system:First Round December 12thNo. 1 Alabama (SEC champion) vs No 16 Troy (Sun Belt Conference champion)No 2 Texas (Big 12 champion) vs No 15 East Carolina (Conference-USA champion)No 3 Florida (At-Large seed 1) vs No 14 Central Michigan (MAC champion)No 4 Cincinnati (Big East champion) vs No 13 Penn State (At-Large fifth seed)No 5 Texas Christian (Mountain West champion) vs No 12 Ohio State (Big Ten champion)No 6 Oregon (Pacific 10 champion) vs No 11 Virginia Tech (At-Large third seed)No 7 Boise State (WAC champion) vs No 10 Iowa (At-Large second seed)No 8 Georgia Tech (ACC champion) vs No. 5 Texas Christian (Fiesta Bowl)As The Rose Bowl is serving as the site of the national championship game, it would serve as both the semi-finals as well as the championship game.SemifinalsJanuary 8Game 1: Alabama vs CincinnatiGame 2: Texas vs FloridaBCS Championship Game January 15)Alabama vs TexasFor those who think what a foolish idea, let me propose an alternative to you. Suppose the NFL were to tell its fans that the Super Bowl was going to be played by the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints, as they currently have the top records in their respective conferences Is there a football fan out there who truly believes voting on a championship game is a logical turn of eventsYes, there would be blowouts in some of the early games. For those talented teams such as Alabama or Texas, playing at home against a lowly team such as Troy or East Carolina should be no concern, right And under the system, every conference champion gets a shot at the title. No worries about anyone being left out of the big picture, as we have seen over the years. No worries about needing Congress to get involved. And for those of you who salivate over The New Mexico Bowl , rest easyI am leaving all of those bowls alone, kind of like college basketball's NIT version to go with the NCAA tournament.A very smart man once said that insanity was doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. College football does this, year after year, and the results have not changed.Until changes are made for a playoff system, consider this lengthy diatribe my annual airing of grievances on the sport that I love more than any other.. (The standings will stand until after Wrestlemania. They will return to 0 starting at the first PPV after WrestleMania.) Although the league restarts after WrestleMania it still contains both TNA and WWE PPV's. - There is no prize for winning a competition other than bragging rights over being the smartest or luckiest person said week. - Points for matches will be based on whether or not it is a title bout, 1 contender match, if the match has somesignificance towards a feud, how hard it is to predict it, and if I think it deserves more than the others. - There still will be an upset award, but it cannot be used on a match involving 3 or more competitors, two on two tag matches are eligible worth 2 points. - There still will be bonus questions worth anywhere from 1 to 3 points. - In Triple Threat or Fatal Four Way matches there will be 2 or 3 points awarded for guessing the winner correctly, 1 or 2 point for guessing the loser, and 5 or 6 points awarded for getting them both correct as an added bonus. - No match will be worth more than 6 points including bonuses, and 5 points will only be awarded to matches that are of great importance(again this is kind of just my opinion of matches). Here are the current standings...Every week they will be updated here and on that weeks results page.Anyone who has made it to the 100 and over club is in BoldCol 1- PositionCol 2- Pos ChanceCol 3- NameCol 4- Points 1 Josh Logan 211 2 Joe Burgett 207 3 ^2 Terrell Johnson 193 4 ^3 John Landigran 189 4 v1 Zach 189 6 v2 Niall Kelcher 179 7 ^3 Bobby Lewis 173 8 v3 Wyatt Beltz 169 9 ^2 Kevin Williams 168 9 ^6 Josh McMullen 16811 v2 Chris Jeter 16712 ^1 Kendrick Davis 16313 v1 Hayley-L Graham 15114 Adam Testa 14515 ^4 Tom Dunn 14416 v4 Hayat Khan 14017 v1 Callum Graham 13818 v1 Patrick Green 13519 v1 Mr. Taylor 12820 Scott Beeby 12220 ^5 Dustin Speaker 12222 v1 Alex Brooks 11923 v1 Lewis Wise 11624 ^1 Austin Kretsos 11225 v1 Hurricane Hubbard 11126 Jennifer Hill 10827 Chris Anderson 9328 Faysal Shehail 9029 Greg Bush 8930 Captain Charisma 8731 ^2 Jack Dunleavy 8632 v1 Kevin Canny 8333 v1 Mike Salavatore 8034 Kris Carlson 5634 Keith Lamotte 5636 RKO Kid 4737 Adrian Staehle 4438 ^14 Aadhya Shivakumar 4439 ^4 Jacob Burman 4340 ^13 Eddie Pascoe 4240 ^13 Colin Simmons 4240 ^13 Jack Swagger 4243 v5 Ron Johnson 4044 ^9 Roopan Verma 3245 v6 Tommy Cochran 2746 ^6 Sam Brown 2647 v7 Billy The Wonder Kid 2247 ^6 Patrick Schoemehl 2249 ^4 Jose Moguel 2050 v9 Ross Ste-Croix 1650 ^2 Lynn Kincheloe 1652 v10 Thant Hardy 12 These are the PPV winners...TNA Slammiversary: Svyato Rovenchuk 22WWE The Bash: DJ Rallo 16TNA Victory Road: Chase Ruttig 15WWE Night Of Champions: (All had 15) Alex Brooks, Josh McMullen, Chase Ruttig, Jack MortonTNA Hard Justice: Danny Starry 21WWE Summer Slam: Chris De Guzman 20WWE Breaking Point: John Landrigan 20TNA No Surrender: Zach 28 (This was the first person to get every prediction correct)WWE Hell In The Cell: (I Couldn't find the winner, so let me know if you find em)TNA Bound For Glory: Hurricane Hubbard 37(This was worth double points)WWE Bragging Rights: Josh Logan 21 (Yeah I did win one)TNA Turning Point: (I couldn't find the winner for this PPV either, so again let me know if you find out)WWE Survivor Series: Chris Anderson 15WWE Tables, Ladders, and Chairs: (Both had 22) Kendrick Davis, Dustin SpeakerTNA Final Resolution: Bobby Lewis 28TNA Genesis: Terrell Johnson 24WWE Royal Rumble: Josh McMullen 26. Yikes. Belcher departed as a free agent, and put together a pretty decent run from 1995-1998.Upper: The amazing play of Mr.

EconomyCBO, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst, also said government outlays this year will include more than $180 billion related to the cost of the Wall Street bailout program that Congress passed in October, giving the Bush administration up to $700 billion in emergency money.It is not yet clear whether the federal government will be able to recoup the costs of the financial industry bailout.(Reporting by Richard Cowan) Economy. During the last off-season, when Brooks Orpik was on the free agent market, it was widely speculated that the Rangers would go hard after him since they lacked a physical defensemen. The Penguins ended up re-signing him and it was during that time, information came out saying that the Rangers offered Orpik a contract, but he turned it down because the contract length was not to his liking, even though they offered more money. Someone's information is not correct here, and this was brought to my attention by a student of Stony Brook University, Adrian Szkolar, who did some investigative journalism of his own, and even emailed Larry Brooks and Penguins' beat writer Rob Rossi to try and get some clarification over whether Brooks knowingly lied or not.To read the rest of the article, click here..

He has already whipped the Tide into shape and producing performances that can make "Every Bama Man" proud. Coming in to Tuscaloosa, the Boilermakers are an impressive 7-0.If Alabama is to win this match-up they need to use the off-time before the game wisely. Preparing to defend key players like JaJuan Johnson and Chris Kramer will be key in this game. Johnson comes into this match up with a FG of .507 and Kramer with .593. Also, if they are to win they must win the ever-important rebound battle. Green averages 32 points per game, Torrance averaging 26, and Brock averaging just under 26. If the Tide hopes to extend their record to 7-3, then they must show up ready to play; as you can bet Purdue will. Tip-off will begin at 8:00 CST. The game will be televised on ESPN2 so be sure to tune in.Check Back after the game for a complete analysis from the student section.. MARKHAM, ONTARIO, Jan 07 (MARKET WIRE) DMTI Spatial (DMTI), Canada's leading provider of Location Intelligencesolutions, has announced that Genworth Financial Canada (Genworth), aleading financial services company, has successfully implemented theLocation Hub(R) Master Address Management software within their AutomatedUnderwriting System.The Location Hub platform enables Genworth to significantly increase thenumber of times an address on a homebuyer's mortgage default insuranceapplication can be matched to its property assessment database improvingboth the speed and quality of the underwriting decision."The success of Genworth's automated underwriting decisions is dependanton accurate address management to ensure that the property exists and iswithin market value," said Peter Vukanovich, President, GenworthFinancial Canada.