GO TIGERS!
Posted on 11/26/2007 8:07:03 AM PST by StarCMC
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Missouri - fresh of Saturday’s 36-28 victory over Kansas in Kansas City on Saturday night - had been voted No. 1 football team in the nation in the Associated Press Top 25.
And soon after the MU basketball team’s 91-52 blowout of Western Illinois on Sunday, Missouri was announced No. 1 in the all-important BCS standings.
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Everyone in Columbia seemed to be grinning Sunday over the football team’s first No. 1 ranking since 1960, a ranking the Tigers held for one week before being upset by Kansas.
MU was ranked No. 2 by the USA Today/Coaches poll, but just 13 points behind West Virginia, the coaches’ top pick.
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If MU and West Virginia can hold those BCS rankings one more week, they will meet in the national championship game in New Orleans the first week of January.
Missouri would have to beat Oklahoma - the only team to defeat MU in its 11-1 season
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GO TIGERS!
Ping! :-)
Amazing. Haven’t followed them much lately. These are not Al Onofrio’s Tigers.
Jim
BSEE 1980
Pigs are flying this year. Never thought I would see Mizzou #1 in any poll in my lifetime.
Mizzou was #1 in 1960 for one week until Kansas beat them in the last game of the season. Kansas had an ineligible player so the game was forfeited. But by the time the decision was made the season was over and Mizzou ended up #5. I hope they stay on top longer this year.
I hope that we do get to play in the championship game against Mizzou. They have been and continue to be a top class orginization.
However, I fear the match-up will not happen. Even if Mizzou beats OK and WVU beats Pitt, I believe the BCS will jump Ohio State to the 2nd position.
Since Miami, VA Tech, & Boston College left the big east the BCS has treated the big east teams like we were div II schools. Last year there was talk about taking away the automatic bowl for the conference champion because we were considered a weak conference. Then the big east went 6 for 6 in bowl games last year and I haven’t heard that talk again.
So I hope to watch our programs meet in January and I pray that the BCS will leave the rankings alone (if we both take care of business) and let us see some great football.
Would be the worst championship game ever, but good luck to both.
Missouri would be 7 - 4 in the SEC.
The only way OSU jumps to 2 is if one of those teams loses.
I agree that all teams in the top 16 have a question about how they would fare against Mizzou or WVU.
All college football fans across the country should start screaming for a play off system. The top 16 ranked teams should be allowed to compete with the top two meeting in Jan for the championship.
The combined record of those teams MU played is 72-60.
Only 5 of those teams had winning records.
Two of those teams ended up with double digit wins...
MU beat one of them, and that was KU.
The other was OU...and OU gave MU their only loss.
I predict that OU will once again beat MU...to further muddy the BCS fiasco.
FWIW-
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If Ohio State fans want to avoid an upset stomach, they might not want to root too hard for Oklahoma to beat No. 2 Kansas or No. 4 Missouri in next week's Big 12 Championship Game in San Antonio. The No. 5 Buckeyes should really save themselves from being embarrassed for the second season in a row.
The Buckeyes' national title hopes seemed lost when they fell to Illinois 28-21 on Nov. 10. Then Oregon, Oklahoma and finally LSU lost while the Buckeyes watched. But Ohio State's chances of winning the BCS title are still fleeting, at best. Even if the Buckeyes use the back door to the Louisiana Superdome by finishing in the top two of the final BCS standings, they don't stand a chance against West Virginia.
After Florida ran up and down the field against a better Ohio State team in a 41-14 win in the 2006 BCS Championship Game, the Mountaineers might actually lap the Buckeyes on the Bayou. The Mountaineers are really that fast.
Think Gators quarterback Tim Tebow can run? White runs better.
"I'm biased," Rodriguez said. "I think he's the best football player in the country. Pat has done it his whole career. He makes plays when plays aren't there, and when plays are there, he makes them better."
Think Florida receiver Percy Harvin is fast? Devine and Slaton are faster. Collectively, no other team in the country has as much speed as the Mountaineers.
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I would reeeeeeally love Mizzou to beat OK. :-)
Hope you're wrong -- it's awfully hard for one team to beat another twice in one college football season. I hope that holds true for this the MU-OU game.
One of the problems in playing in large conferences.
Missouri has no control over the records of their Big 12 opponents.
They also scheduled some cupcakes for non-conference as every other Div I big school does.
They did schedule Illinois and Ole Miss at neutral or hostile sites for non conference games.
Maybe they should schedule some non conference 10+ win teams who couldn’t compete at the top level to assuage their lack of 10+ opponents in conference play.
And if WV gets bit by the #2 rank BCS jinx, the Buckeyes move into the finals (BCS will make sure Ohio State is ranked #2).
Missouri is a great team to watch. I absolutely loved their last game and they've got the prettiest cheerleaders in the country.
ping GOP_Raider
Thanks for the post.
I don’t know if we have the single fastest player in the country but I do believe that WVU is the fastest team overall in DIV 1
I long for the years past when we would play Penn State and other teams. This gave us a better idea of where we stood nationaly.
Sounds like a sore loser to me.
I've no idea what KS opponents records are...or OU's for that matter.
The whole season..though, I got the sense that KU's schedule was very weak. And didn't think they deserved their ranking.
That being said...they played a decent game against MU.
No matter what happens....this year, there will be someone who thinks they got the short end of the stick.
FWIW-
I guess you missed the part where I wrote "good luck" to the number one and two teams. Hard to be a sore loser when BOTH your basketball team and your football team are the reigning NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!
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