First of all, ESPN is getting blasted all day by CBS. At this point in time, its not even running up the score. Its passed poor sportsmanship. Its horrific...and I love every minute of it. I'm surprised that CBS hasn't canceled all remaining programing for the evening just to let Tim Brando whack ESPN, ABC and Michigan for being bush league. West Virginia is losing Missouri is losing Hawaii still an hour from kickoff. This is an all-out meltdown Saturday of epic scale. Misery loves company, so just pull up a seat with me and enjoy the meltdown that is college football's BcS. Do you like music? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_LbzcqWP4
Missouri has come back to even the score at the half. I hope they win... certainly not because I want the BCS to succeed, but because it would be nice to see a "have not" make it to the champ game for once. WVa losing would be pretty funny...
holy sh*t <t>terrible... I'm not going to go so far as to suggest the fix was (almost) in, but that was awful.<br/> <br/> Time to cook the couches.</t>
It HAS to be LSU vs. Ohio State now. It cannot be Ga, Va Tech or Kansas. Two of those did not make their conference championship game and one was killed by LSU back in Sept. and has an identical record. Besides...the country can look forward with glee to Ohio State looking for SEC redemption. That should be fun....
nope <t>the BCS never made that change after Nebraska got in.<br/> <br/> It could well be Georgia<br/> <br/> Hawaii a'ohe Mea lanakila?</t>
No, it doesn't HAVE to be LSU. The Bull Crap System has made their bed (and shite in it again). Now it will be fun to see how it sorts out. CHAOS!!!! :twisted:
I just posted this on NDN <t>so I will post it here.<br/> <br/> Ohio State goes to the NC game and loses to 3 loss Georgia.<br/> <br/> Hawaii wins big tonight and wins big in a BCS bowl game. Split title?<br/> <br/> Granted, not likely...but look at what all has happened this year.</t>
LSU has only lost two games....as has Ga. The diff is that LSU's losses were both triple OTs. Ga got clocked by Tenn....who lost to LSU tonight. Pretty easy for the voters.
It seemed to me that the refs were giving every possible break to WVA to save them so the Big East could get a team in the Championship game. Shameful. But how in the hell does WVA come out flat in this game, so much on the line at home before a big crowd and Pitt is not a good team as evidenced by their record and the presence of Wanny on the sidelines.
Ahhhhh... This is an historic clusterf**k of biblical proportions. There is nothing left to analyze in this miserable season. Is everybody happy? Both #1 and #2 go down the drain at the same time on the final day of the season for the first time...and in grand style too! The latest phony #1 was blown out and the phony #2 was physically manhandled by one of the worst teams in the Big East. So who goes to the bowl games now? Ohio State has apparently backed into the final game by playing nobody and finishing early: a formula which will be copied by everyone if they get away with it. The real best team in the nation is probably USC, which was getting prepared to bomb the Buckeyes, but now won't get the chance. Instead they will probably play Georgia in the Rose Bowl... If LSU beats Ohio State in the BCS Final, the Bayou Bengals will finish with two losses...exactly the same number of losses as the winner of the Rose Bowl, who will claim at least half of the national championship. On the other hand; if the BCS Finals pick Georgia, the Rose Bowl will match USC with LSU and there will be NO DOUBT that the winner of THAT matchup will be regarded as the real national champion, no matter what happens in the BCS final game... BTW- Don't ask me where the other Pac10 teams are going, I've given up trying to figure it out. I think the Sun Devils are at home for the Fiesta, but I'm not sure. All I do know, is that they don't belong in the Fiesta and neither does anybody else. This was the year that nobody deserved anything. I love it...
I'm <t>with JOCO here.<br/> <br/> BTW-it would take a historic poll swap for LSU to get in the title game. The media machine is working hard at it. They've wanted LSU in this title game since this summer and they've given them every benefit of the doubt along the way.<br/> <br/> Lest not we forget my unchallenged point in another topic that LSU was damn near a 4 or 5 loss team this year.<br/> <br/> That UT team that MCG so easily disregarded earlier today was one bad pass away from taking LSU to yet another OT.<br/> <br/> IMHO, Georgia was the best team in the SEC East at the end of the year. But you go ahead and tell USC, VTech or Oklahoma why they shouldn't go.<br/> <br/> BTW-the most damning injury of the year was to Dixon at Oregon. Dear God would that guy have carved up LSU's defense.</t>
Well, I for one am thrilled that the Buckeyes appear to be poised for a return to the big dance. And why shouldn't they? They are the highest ranked of the one loss teams. Simple as that. The rest is subjective.. Now comes the hard part. Who do they play? I think the best team out there at this point in time is USC. Kansas can make an argument with one loss. A mess, right? Let's not make this tougher than necessary. Give the other berth to undefeated Hawaii... they deserve it. Forget these endless "SEC" style arguments about who looked better winning against who. Ohio State v. Hawaii. It's the only clear choice.
You sound like MCG with your woulda, coulda, shouldas that can't be disproven in fact. Bullcrap! The media darling is USC and you know it. Listen closely this week and you will hear the pro-USC chatter. So what? You can twist that what-if argument a hundred diferent ways for every team involved in the controversy. The bottom line is what a team did on the field. I have no love at all for LSU but I'm trying to be objective. I really don't care who is in the final game, but IMO the case for LSU is the strongest.
And voter poll rankings are not subjective? Seems a team winning a conference championship game to gain entrance into the BCS+1 is less subjective than the team which "just sits at home and eating cheeseburgers" on conference championship weekend. :wink:
....and in Baton Rouge, Florida was one measly 4th down stop away from being SEC Champion weeks later in Atlanta..... Tenn, like LSU played many tight games it's just that the Tigers survived more often. In fact...the SEC this year was a war like no other season I can remember in my 40 years of paying attention. I believe that this will weigh heavily in the SEC's favor come 4th quarter at Bowl time.