The no brainer is an ND win Saturday night......then the Irish would play the winner of Ga-Bama. Should the Irish lose I think it's Florida or Oregon.... Florida having the edge because a win over FSU would have the Gators #1 in the BCS computers. If UF loses and Oregon wins out I think it's the Ducks.... again all this considering what would happen if USC surpises ND. After what happened last Sat. night I wouldn't be shocked if ND loses to USC but you have to favor the Irish especially with Barkley out for USC. Should be fun either way because I will very much look forward to seeing ND vs. the SEC Champ if that is what transpires.
Good analysis by College Football News: http://cfn.scout.com/2/1241180.html or this: http://cfn.scout.com/2/1241542.html Basically what we have going this Saturday is two playoff games.... One at 3:30 pm with UF and FSU and one at 8 pm with ND - USC. If the times were reversed ND could negate the outcome of UF-FSU and it wouldn't be as big of a deal. But because of timing it is most likely a 2 team playoff situation for the berth opposite the SEC Champ. Should be fun.....
Here is something that will frost Dave... What if UF beats FSU, and Alabama goes to the BCS Championship game to play an unbeaten ND and thus the Sugar Bowl gets to chose a replacement team for the SEC Champion and..here is the hook...chooses 2 loss Texas A&M over 1 loss UF? Reason...Gators great team but there is nothing exciting about them, no Tim Tebow, no well known stars...Texas A&M will have JFF and the country is enamoured with him and he'll be the freshly minted Heisman winner (maybe). Aggies will storm New Orleans and fill up hotels and buy stuff, TV sets will turn on to watch Johnny Football do his stuff.
Frost Dave or not, that is a possibility... a better possibility if you add Georgia losing to GT, but a possibility either way.
The Sugar could take A&M for those reasons and they are good ones. But if UF beats FSU then the Gators will be #3 in the BCS provided ND wins..... and I don't see them not being in the BCS Bowl mix with that high of a rating.....or maybe it's even mandatory ( top 3 ? ). http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/bcs_explained.html "5. If any of the 10 slots remain open after application of provisions 1 through 4, and an at-large team from a conference with an annual automatic berth for its champion is ranked No. 3 in the final BCS Standings, that team will become an automatic qualifier, provided that no at-large team from the same conference qualifies for the national championship game."
So..... I wonder who will be third in the BCS come tomorrow and second on selection Sunday if the Irish trip on their crank tonight? Anybody know? ESPN hasn't said a word about it all week.... :lol: :lol:
Congrats to ND......looks like Sugar Bowl for the Gators. Heck that BCS is a ******** beauty contest run by crooks and computers. Who needs it anyways....... blooey!
Now begins a new round of Old Maid. The 12Pac Championship Game will be UCLA @ Stanford with the winner going to the Rose Bowl. This leaves the Oregon Ducks as an at-large team. This is very bad news for somebody. The Duckies are quite capable of tacking 60-80 points on anyone. Not a fun way to spend the new year if you're the opponent who has to face them...
our defense is really good. our offense is better than people think. We almost got screwed by this POS system that required us to win out, while giving other (select) superconference teams multiple bites at the apple. All I know is this. Every time we've taken the field this year, we've won. Many times this year teams needed inches to roll the chains or scoreboard, only to be denied entirely. Proven on the field, the way it should be. This system still blows. We'll see how this shakes out next week. Someone can tell Jesse Palmer to get his hands out of his pants now. He was as embarrassing as Griese today. Hats off to Florida on a really good win in a hostile environment, but seriously.. was FSU that good? I'm not asking about talent. I'm asking if they are a good team. They didn't strike me as one.. UF looked composed and prepared. FSU looks like a track team with helmets.
It was a great win for Mushamp... proving he can be a big game coach. UF was stronger than FSU and I thought so going in and when you look at what the SEC did to the ACC yesterday those results for sure validated UF's SEC schedule vs. that soft ACC schedule of the Seminoles. Congrats to ND.... playing for it all in a system that blows. :wink: 8)
The SEC owes a huge debt of gratitude to Terrell Pryor and Jim Tressel. If not for them, there would be no SEC team in the national championship game this year. In the what-if category, there would be irony in an OSU-ND matchup in that the B10 would have a representative in a decidedly down year.
I want to see OSU do it next year when it counts. The choke factor.... the pressure.... wasn't part of their equation this year. Ask KState and Oregon what that can be like.
You are suggesting that a team coached by Urban Meyer, recently of Florida fame, would choke. My,my. How quickly you forget. You denigrate a team's - any team's - unbeaten record? With nothing to play for, I would think that it would be extremely difficult to motivate 18-22 year old athletes. Yet their coach motivated them to an undefeated season. I would say that next year, they would be even more highly motivated. I'm neither an OSU fan nor a detractor, so I'm objective when I say that I don't believe the word "choke" fits within the OSU DNA. All you need to do is say, thank you. Is that so difficult? :roll:
It was a great season for the Buckeyes no doubt. Meyer is a supreme motivator and one of the three best college football coaches in America today ( Saban and Kelly )... That said.... winning every single game for anybody when the NC marbles are truly on the line is a different task than what OSU had to accomplish this year.
The ACC is a dumpster fire this year. Hats off for beating one of the flaming bags of garbage that inhabit it.
I know all you SEC fans will not agree with me but the human polls are just so enamored with the SEC that it is no longer relevant. Oregon lost 1 game and it was to a very stout Stanford team, yet they paid more than Alabama did when they lost to Texas A&M, and UGA was hammered by So.Carolina yet both of those 1 loss teams are ahead of Oregon. KState is like FSU though in that it had a bad loss in conference to Baylor so it's not surprising that they fell so far. It doesn't really make that much difference, as Oregon will most likely get a BCS at large bid, hopefully to the Sugar Bowl vs the Gators.
The classic pimp job happens to the Ga.-Ala. loser. They will fall below an idle Gator team that will qualify for a BCS game. This is the same scenario that MSU endured last year when Mich. went to a BCS bowl over them even though the Spartans beat M and won their division. Anyone see the fairness in this? (besides Gator fans)
No doubt Oregon is a very high quality team. They leave a tad bit of doubt though because they don't seem to fly so high when they play a good defense..... like Stanford's.