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Or, were they also just pawns in a well orchestrated smear campaign by ESPN to hype interest in the Voldemort, whose broadcast rights they own? ESPN saw in October that Luck was running away with it so they started leading out all the Stanford game high lights with his one interception, before getting around to his 3 TD passes or that Stanford won the game handily. And of course we have the post Big Game Holtz & Mark May trashing of Andrew's pick where Montgomery fell down on his break (that Reece Davis called "his 3rd game in a row with a pick 6" even though the ball ended up on the Stanford 14 yard line).

It was all about the ratings and they played Andrew, Stanford, and all of us for suckers. Welcome to our new, 10 year, TV "partners".

Right.

It's not exactly rigged, but it's an awfully well orchestrated storyline they market. 

Of course, the Voldemort, is by its nature a popularity contest, a beauty contest, etc.

But the BCS, the BCS makes figure skating competitions look fair and objective.  The part that makes a small part of my sporting soul ache, is that the competition that should determine outcomes is replaced with rankings, spin, and influence.

Don King, himself, couldn't put on a better show.

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Or, were they also just pawns in a well orchestrated smear campaign by ESPN to hype interest in the Voldemort, whose broadcast rights they own? ESPN saw in October that Luck was running away with it so they started leading out all the Stanford game high lights with his one interception, before getting around to his 3 TD passes or that Stanford won the game handily. And of course we have the post Big Game Holtz & Mark May trashing of Andrew's pick where Montgomery fell down on his break (that Reece Davis called "his 3rd game in a row with a pick 6" even though the ball ended up on the Stanford 14 yard line).

It was all about the ratings and they played Andrew, Stanford, and all of us for suckers. Welcome to our new, 10 year, TV "partners".

Right.

It's not exactly rigged, but it's an awfully well orchestrated storyline they market. 

Of course, the Voldemort, is by its nature a popularity contest, a beauty contest, etc.

But the BCS, the BCS makes figure skating competitions look fair and objective.  The part that makes a small part of my sporting soul ache, is that the competition that should determine outcomes is replaced with rankings, spin, and influence.

Don King, himself, couldn't put on a better show.