Baseball Playoffs and College Football

My two favorite sports are Baseball and College Football.

For baseball, the greatest two points of the season are the two weeks leading up to the playoffs, and the playoffs themselves.  What’s funny is, for the rest of the country, if two specific teams aren’t playing in Post-Season, no one watches.  With both the Yankee’s and Red Sox being out, viewership for the post-games this year is way down.  I still love watching no matter who plays.

The greatest points of a college football season can happen almost every weekend.  The reason I think college football has become so much more popular over the past few years is because with the way the BCS system works, every game matters.  Even if your team isn’t playing, you’ll watch two teams because if one of them loses and is ahead of you, all the better ranking for your team.  It’s an interesting situation that I don’t think happens in any other sport.  Besides the fact that this past weekend’s Auburn/Florida game was a great game of football, the fact that Florida lost a) helps USC in the rankings and b) helps M*ch*gan in the rankings which in turn helps Ohio State in the rankings because those two teams will play each other.

Speaking of the Buckeyes, last week I finally got around to purchasing an HD Capture card for my PC.  Now I’ve been enjoying the greatness that is HD Television for over a year now via my Costco Purchased Vizio 50″ Plasma Monitor, but I’ve never been able to recording anything of my choosing (usually I’ll just download aquire from alternative sources).  Now that I have this capture card I can record all the Buckeye games in wonderful 720p.  This week I’ve really gotten into video editing and encoding and have been able to put together some awesome looking clips from the Michigan State/OSU game.  If I get a chance I’ll post some links later.