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!!
Props to Coach Pinkel...who was Offensive Coordinator at Washington when my brother played there, and had a hand in recruiting me to play there.
Pinkel was interviewed by then AD Barbara Hedges to become HC at Washington in the late 90s (when he was at Toledo), but she wanted to make her own mark on the program and went and hired Rick Neuheisel. (And look at how far we have fallen since)
You are correct. Kansas did not play a particularly tough schedule. Missouri was their toughest opponent this year.
I wasn’t at all believing that that they were the legitimate #2 team.
But they did play credibly and I’m sorry that they lost. They will receive a very nice bowl bid and in the long run, this year will only help their recruiting efforts.
Kansas has been building up to this for several years now. Two years ago, they got a surprise invite to the PlainsCapital Fort Worth Bowl where they beat up on a supposedly better Houston team.
Step by step, Mangino and his staff seem to be doing it all just fine.
And then you would have the number 17 team moaning because they were left out.
I still think the best thing to do is divide all teams into 16 conferences of 16 teams. Let each conference be divided into two divisions with a one game League Conference championship game.
From there, you would have a 16 team 'Tournament of Champions'.
Polls would be eliminated from a roll in determining the champion.
Sorry, there will be no tournament. End of discussion.
Agreed.....
When Mangino left OU...I figured if given enough time...he could mold/build a winner.
Congrats to KU....for sure.
My family & I went to Norman earlier this year and saw our first match up. We told the folk in Norman, we'll see you again this year.
I'm expecting to come out on top this game.
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I absolutely agree.
By the way, congrats on your thorough pounding of my UConn Huskies the other day. We were absolutely humiliated...although we did score first, if that counts for anything ;-)
While my UConn Huskies went down in the flames of defeat, even though we did score up to 21, the fact that a Big East program is in the number 2 position will at last will end all the questions of the Big East being a true football conference. :)
UCONN had me worried. I thought we could get by Cincy and Pitt has had some serious problems the last couple of years bu you had me (and most WVU fans) worried.
I do not like to see a team get steamrolled like that but WVU had to make a statement to the BCS. I think we need to make another statement next week.
I do not trust the BCS.
It would definately be interesting if the Top 16 BCS teams were in a playoff, I could see a team from the middle of the pack (*ahem* Florida) winning the championship under such a scenario.
When I have watched the game of UConn vs. WV, the Mountaineers are a really fast team. Also they have perfected the “spread offense” in order to defeat the other teams. Do not be suprised if the NFL is going to take a close look at both the juniors and seniors for draft consideration down the road.
I do not like to see a team get steamrolled like that but WVU had to make a statement to the BCS. I think we need to make another statement next week.
I do not trust the BCS.”
Thank-you for commenting about not liking an opposing football team getting steamrolled, but WVU was dealing with the very high expectations of the BCS, which I do not like the present BCS system.
Here is a thread about changing the BCS system.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1930413/posts
Screw rankings, they're political anyway, just have the conference champs in a play-off. Three weeks tops.
There needs to be more symmetry in college football. Every team should play the same # of games. No way OSU deserves the championship game.
That is why I have been promoting the idea of having a bracket system in place for the college football the way they do it for the basketball.
Yep, 6 BCS conference champions and 2 at large. Eight team playoff and it would only take 3 weekends to decide the champion. But you know, the best team/player does not always win the championship in any sport.
>>And then you would have the number 17 team moaning because they were left out.<<
True, but there is a HUGE difference between number 17 complaining and number 3 complaining. If number 3 should really be number 2, then that’s a potential national championship they don’t win. If number 17 should really be number 16, then that’s likely a first or, at best, second round playoff finish they don’t get.
16 seeds have never won an NCAA basketball tournament game. I’m not saying that equates to football, but it will be a long time before a ‘teen seed would win in football under a playoff system.
I do, however, think your idea about the leagues has merit.
Mike and Mike had their BCS expert on today. He said there is no way Ohio State can jump WVU if the Mounties win out. Actually the Big East Bowl wins in 2006 were 5 for 5 but your point is well taken.
good points and I agree.
My Mistake. It was 5 for 5.
I did not realize there was such a thing as a BCS expert.
Can anyone explain how the BCS arrives at their ranking?
I do want to see Missouri play West Virginia in the BCS Championship Game—at least it won’t be boring. If we end up getting West Virginia vs Ohio State, that could be bad news because Ohio State has never played well against a team with anything resembling a really good offense (WVU is probably the best practicioners of the “spread” offense in the USA, and that could cause no end of trouble for tOSU’s defense).
I think the Mike and Mike BCS “expert” is just a guy that’s looked into the system. The ranking seems to be a blend of two polls (Coaches and Harris) and a computer ranking that takes into account things like strength of schedule. According to the “expert” because of the computer ranking, Ohio state can only move up if a team ahead of them loses.
ditto.
Mizzou does a pretty good job with the spread.
The only team to score 30 or more points in every game this year.
CT-Freeper, UConn is going to the Meneke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, NC. :)
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