Many famous peeps have been buried at Forest Lawn in So Cal...

Andy Gibb and Art Linkletter...

Bert Convy, Bette Davis, and Buster Keaton...

Charles Laughton...

David Carradine and Don Drysdale...

Edgar Buchanan, Edie Adams, and Ernie Kovacs...

Forrest Tucker and Fred “Rerun” Berry...

Gene Autry and Godfrey Cambridge...

Rick’s mom, Harriet Nelson...

And John’s mom, Helen Travolta...

Jack Webb and John Wooden...

Leo Durocher and Liberace...

Lou Rawls and Lucille Ball...

Marty Feldman and Marvin Gaye...

Not to mention my dear Uncle Leo...

And my mom and dad...

Forest Lawn at Glendale and Hollywood Hills are beautiful...

However...

Two more burials took place last weekend...

At Sherwood’s Forest Lawn...

The hair, the smile, and the tongue...

Sherwood Brown and Florida Gulf Coast performing last rites...

Jamaal Franklin and San Diego State followed Georgetown...

Going six feet under...

Oh my word...

Haven’t they stolen the show at the March Madness Dance???

We are pleasantly stunned...

But not as nearly as stunning as...

The coach’s wife...

Take a look at him, then take a look at her...

Boy, did he marry up...

Way, way up...

THAT dude got a supermodel???

Amanda Marcum Enfield???

Well...

Now there’s hope for you young and ugly single men out there...

No wonder the Hoyas and Aztecs lost...

Too busy looking at her...

Totally unfair...

Hiawatha!!!!!!!

You better watch out, Florida Gators...

The Undertaker has your grave ready...

But if you took a brief moment to shift your eyes to the court...

You found something incredibly refreshing...

A Phenomenal Phifteen in the Sweet Sixteen...

Actually...

Should a team that beat Miami be seeded that low???

It doesn’t matter at this point...

The Florida Gulf Coast “Iggles” have landed...

Making this tournament incredibly memorable...

In more ways than one...

dvt

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The basic idea of my computer ratings is to be a better version of the BCS standings, where the focus is on the top teams and having the correct top 2.

For the first few years, my top 2 agreed with the BCS top 2 with the BCS Champion finishing #1 in my final rankings. That changed last year when I had Oklahoma St. #2 going into the bowls and then LSU stayed #1 despite the loss to Alabama.

Once again this season, my top 2 was different from the BCS top 2. I had Notre Dame #1 going in, but Alabama was down at #4, below Florida and Ohio St.

Some might scoff at Florida, which didn’t even win its division, but neither did last year’s pre-bowl #3. Florida also managed to beat both LSU and Texas A&M, which Alabama could not do, and the Tide didn’t even face one of the top 3 teams of the other division until the SEC Championship game.

As for Ohio St., let’s face it: If they weren’t on probation, they would have been in the title game against Notre Dame.

Since I’m about to paste my top 25 below anyway, I’ll give it away. Alabama did finish as #1 in the final rankings this year, the second year in a row my (completely subjective) preseason #1 ended #1. And if we were to look at the top 2 now, what happens? Rematch! Alabama should have to beat them again. It would be even better if they had to beat Georgia again though. In addition, Alabama should also have to travel back in time and beat Texas a second time in 2009.

I’ll be really annoyed if Alabama has a November loss next year and ends up in the title game again anyway, especially being that their SEC East opponents in the regular season will be Tennessee and Kentucky while LSU, for instance, will play Florida and Georgia.

Top 25

rank / team / prior

1 Alabama 4

2 Notre Dame 1

3 Ohio St. 2

4 Oregon 6

5 Stanford 5

6 Florida 3

7 S Carolina 8

8 Georgia 10

9 TX A&M 12

10 Kansas St. 7

11 Clemson 15

12 Florida St. 16

13 SJSU 14

14 LSU 9

15 Oklahoma 11

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Top 25

rank / team / prior

1 Notre Dame 1

2 Ohio St. 2

3 Florida 3

4 Alabama 5

5 Stanford 6

6 Oregon 4

7 Kansas St. 8

8 S Carolina 9

9 LSU 10

10 Georgia 7

11 Oklahoma 13

12 TX A&M 12

13 Nebraska 11

14 SJSU 15

15 Clemson 14

16 Florida St. 17

17 N. Illinois 19

18 Oregon St. 16

19 Utah St. 18

20 Boise St. 24

21 Louisville –

22 N’western 20

23 Michigan 23

24 Ball St. –

25 Ark. St. –

Out of rankings: (21) Texas, (22) Rutgers, (25) Kent St.

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I’m going to switch it up and put my top 25 last, since that’s old news at this point. But you can always look up my new ratings early Sunday morning and all week long via that link.

Saban vs. Muschamp and SEC notes

Also, I don’t think we really learned anything new last week. I’m not saying I predicted every game to happen as it did, but there was nothing earth-shattering. I do think the SEC should have quieted a bit of the talk about it being some kind of fraud illusion. I’ll get back to that after mentioning the Muschamp/Saban dispute, both of whom I remember well as LSU coaches of course.

Florida is a solid #3 now in my top 25. If Alabama beats Georgia, I would honestly rather see the Gators in the title game to Notre Dame. At least the Tide would have a greater chance of losing. But a certain head coach doesn’t even think Florida deserves the Sugar.

“You play your way into the (SEC) championship game, which means you’re the best team in your division. …”

Does it always mean that? Really? We wouldn’t to give a one-loss team that didn’t win its division the benefit of the doubt in some cases, right?

And Florida actually tied for its division, kind of like Alabama would have done with Texas A&M (which would have been followed by Alabama watching from home and hoping for a Sugar invite) had Florida not beaten Texas A&M. I hardly think it a coincidence that the two of the top-6 SEC teams who are playing for the championship had the weakest interdivisional competition (Alabama played Tennessee and Missouri, while Georgia played Auburn and Ole Miss).

So let’s look at top wins and losses by either potential loser against Florida. I list all the wins over teams .500 or better in BCS-conference competition. And don’t forget that you’re adding a second loss to either Georgia or Alabama.

(you'll have to go here to check out the table I made)

How do you NOT pick Florida?

Muschamp offered to play in the game in lieu of Alabama, and implicitly would have let the Tide have the Sugar Bowl. I’d probably rather see that game, actually.

Of course, I indicated above two of the SEC’s wins over the ACC over the weekend. Also, South Carolina beat Clemson and Vandy beat Wake Forest. The fact that Vandy not only won but was expected to win and won easily shows how far they’ve come. Being in the middle of this league (#7 based on wins and losses in conference) is hard to do. Vandy did lose to Northwestern earlier in the year though. No other such losses by the SEC top 8 though.

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