Season's Greetings

[cactuswatcher]

I addressed and signed my Christmas cards today. I'll have to decide whether or not to write a Christmas letter this year. Not much has happened this year, nor in the last few years for that matter. I do have a few personal messages to send this year. But not very many. Sending Christmas cards is going out of fashion. Postage and the cost of cards keep going up. I've got an old stock of postage stamps left over from my mother. She used to get religious stamps to put on the letters to my father's Catholic relatives and secular Christmas stamps to send to her own family. The secular stamps got used up faster than the religious ones. Some of those folks who didn't get one Madonna and Child stamp years ago will get two with their card this year. It's a little early in December, but while I'm in the mood, happy holidays and season's greetings to everyone reading this!

I made chili last night. In the desire to do something a little different, I made the chili into burritos. I ate a little less chili than usual, but a lot more tortilla. Probably not much calorie advantage one way or the other. And as usual looking forward to leftovers!

Football follies Not a great surprise who made the playoffs. If Florida State had lost at any point this season, I suspect the ACC would have been left out instead of the Big XII. It was idiotic to decide on a four-team playoff when there are five major conferences. But since it's doubtful they could play opening games in an eight-team playoff anywhere, but on campuses, I'm sure they wanted to avoid the grief of deciding who gets the home field advantage. I didn't watch much of the game, but when I flipped through now and then I kept asking myself, "Are they really going to leave out Ohio State." I kept thinking, nah. The committee can come up with whatever excuse they want. But the real deciding reason for leaving out Baylor and TCU is projected TV ratings. If it had been Texas and Oklahoma in the same spot, I can't see anyone jumping over both of them.

Comments

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Notre Dame doesn't exactly have the free pass it did in the BCS era. I think when they get in as an undefeated or one loss team, and I'm sure they will sooner or later, it may be at the expense of their ACC partners. I don't see a one-loss ACC champ and ND getting in together till the playoffs go to eight teams.

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[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

ETA. As much as some folks hated Florida State not being seeded first in the playoffs, I think it's an acknowledgement that there are currently quite a few bad teams in the ACC.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

But there is also the possibility of a year with an undefeated ACC team and a one-loss or undefeated Notre Dame. (Notre Dame doesn't play in the ACC Championship and only plays five league games)

It's more unlikely because Notre Dame isn't usually that good, and neither is the ACC.