Posted on 11/18/2012 7:35:21 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Coming into Saturday, Oregon and Kansas State had the inside track to college football’s national championship and the Southeastern Conference’s run of six straight BCS titles was in jeopardy.
Then No. 2 K-State got thumped 52-24 by unranked Baylor and top-ranked Oregon fell in overtime to No. 14 Stanford, 17-14.
Now the SEC is alive and well.
And how’s this for a possible national title game: Alabama vs. Notre Dame.
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Roll Tide.
Bama will stomp Notre Dame!
They will beat them like a drum.
It is amazing how the BCS ‘ship’ righted itself! Yesterday the SEC held positions 4,5,6,7 (AL, GA, FLA, LSU) and no real shot at the national title. Kansas state gets thumped and Oregon stumbles (actually Standford just played better) and now we can get back to reality. SEC is the best conference and should have a shot at the national title. Here is hoping that USC shows it’s true colors and gets stomped by Notre Dame and Alabama uses Alburn as a needed tune up before meeting GA. May the best SEC team meet ND in Miami!
Some say ND is not as strong as hyped. I reply with the fact that they beat Stanford in OT! That is no small feat judging by the way Stanford shut down Oregon yesterday. If Alabama plays ND for the championship, it will be a game worth watching. And Bama may not be able to field the entire 'A' team after an epic battle with Georgia for the SEC braggin' rights. The consolation regardless, for a man who bleeds Crimson and White, is that Les Miles can now sit down and shut up. Let's hope Saban does a better job of play selection if he gets a shot at ND.
Georgia-Alabama should be a fun game provided both win this week.
Imagine if:
Notre Dame loses to USC.
Florida beats Florida State.
Alabama beats Auburn.
Georgia Tech beats Georgia.
Alabama beats Georgia in the SEC title game.
Would that make it an all-SEC Alabama-Florida title game?
Sounds like you are partial to them boys from Gainesville!
I would love an Alabama v. ND title, so ND could lose 56-3, and suffer the humiliation they deserve. I absolutely despise Notre Dame since they embraced Obama and the abortion vampires, and their scumbag president pressed charges against the pro-life protesters. I wish every alumni withheld every penny until that bastard cries uncle.
1) ND
2) ALA
3) GA
4) FLA
5) LSU
Four of the top 5 are SEC! Any doubters on which conference is the best?
SEC repeats as National Champion.
Won’t happen. As with many institutions people understand the current stewards of it don’t represent the institution they came to know and love. Like say, the United States for instance.
Go Dawgs! Sic ‘em! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!
Georgia beats Bama this time.
Hoping ND loses to USC.
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I still remember Lou Holtz calling a fake punt against Boston College in the 90’s when they were leading something like 49-0. The next year Notre Dame was undefeated and heading for a national championship when BC beat them. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Tom Coughlin was the BC coach by the way. Do you think Tom got them motivated?
Alabama might have a great time, but their coach is a sorry excuse for a human being. I would NEVER allow my son to play for a “man” like that.
How ‘bout the Baylor Bears! By beating Kansas State they put Alabama or Georgia back into the National Championship hunt. At the same time took a QB from their own conference out of the Heisman chase. PLUS, they put A&M’s “Johnny Football”, Baylor’s old rival, in the driver’s seat for the Heisman.
And of course they helped themselves. Win one more and they’re bowl eligible.
ND probably does not deserve to go.
From CBS:
“SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame knew what was coming. Stanford doesn’t get cute inches from the goal line.
And after three years of getting pushed around by the Cardinal, the Fighting Irish pushed back, winning the most important shoving match they’ve had all season.
Or did they?
A wall of Notre Dame defenders stopped Stepfan Taylor inches from the goal line on fourth down in overtime and the seventh-ranked Irish remained unbeaten with a 20-13 victory against the No. 17 Cardinal on a soggy Saturday in South Bend.
Taylor kept reaching and turning with bodies underneath him, and his knee never did hit the ground before reaching the ball across the goal line. But the officials ruled it was too late. The whistle had blown, and that meant the play was stopped.
Taylor finished with 102 yards on 28 carries. He needed 103. “
I hadn’t thought about it that way but you are right. Don’t worry, Baylor will kick us (Texas Tech) next week. I absolutely despise tuberville and can’t wait for him to leave for an SEC post again.
I hadn’t thought about it that way but you are right. Don’t worry, Baylor will kick us (Texas Tech) next week. I absolutely despise tuberville and can’t wait for him to leave for an SEC post again.
USC beats Notre Dame.
Ohio State beats that state up north.
The only undefeated team in the country enjoys the conference and national championship games on TV at their local Buffalo Wild Wings.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
ROLL TIDE!
Could ND fall in the rankings this week?
Oregon still has a good chance but need help.
The ducks need USC to beat ND (very possible), and Florida State to beat Florida, and the Ducks are in if they win out.
Florida also has a chance. They need to win against FL ST., and USC to beat ND.
I hope Kansas St has no chance but, if Oregon St. beats Oregon, Fl ST beats FL and USC beats ND, they might get in.
Last two teams with a chance but need A LOT OF HELP are Clemson and Florida State.
And IMO, the two teams playing the best are Texas AM and Stanford, neither of whom will play in the championship.
Let’s see, who did the SEC teams defeat to claw their way back into the top 5?
The likes of Western Carolina, Jacksonville State, Georgia Southern, Alabama A&M, and Sam Houston State.
What a joke! When every other conference is playing their toughest games of the year to EARN their way into the BCS, the SEC is scheduling the powderpuffs of all powderpuffs.
The big bad SEC, playing it safe. Selected not elected.
They should be ashamed and embarrassed
It is a very long shot, but if Notre Dame won, would little Barry invite them to the White House? He HATES the Catholics and doesn’t ND have one of the lawsuits out against him over the contraceptive issue?
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'Bama owes them one or two.... (1973 & '75)
IIRC
Let’s hope you’re right. I’ve thought that before.
The Irish have the damndest luck of any team in history, anywhere.
ROLL TIDE!
I agree. He is notorious for pulling scholarships from high school commits when they get hurt.
UGA’s Richt hasn’t won the big game, but he has tons more integrity than Saban (aka, Satan).
Yes, but they also gave him an honorary degree and let him give the commencement speech in 2009.
Any ambiguous play goes ND’s way, for some reason. Maybe bias on the part of the refs; maybe a pact with Satan.
I don’t know.
And don’t forget 1966!!!
Yes, I can carry a grudge.
ND is way overrated, but so are my Dawgs. We won some close ones to teams we should have smoked.
Alabama got exposed by LSU and then beaten by Texas A&M. They don’t look nearly as formidable as they did earlier in the year. If my Dawgs play perfect, if they come out on fire on both O & D, then they can win. I don’t know one game this year that UGA had both the O and the D and the Special Teams playing their top game at the same time.
We will see what happens, but I am only guardedly hopeful.
Here’s hoping the USC Trojans will rise to the occasion, beat the Domers, and create even more BCS chaos next Saturday.
hmmm, that might get tested in a game with Alabama, seeing how they are coached by him.
Here’s the final nail in the BCS. Their number 1 team now is the worst Of The best.
Notre Dame, the team that excels in only one thing: Blowing its own horn.
It sort of evens out..Stanford could have gotten the call against ND..yet last night, against Oregon got the late TD after the on-field call was reversed..and that was a really tough call..I thought the original no score ruling might stand, because there is supposes to be CLEAR and INDISPUTABLE evidence ( that’s the standard) to overturn the call on the field, and I wasn’t sure if there was. It could have gone ether way..so somehow it evens out..
Oh, I forgot Wofford.
LSU beat up Bama and A&M finished them off. But.. They will be well rested and Sabam is great at bowl preparation.
SEC Championship IS the NC. No way ND hangs with either team. Or Oregon or K State.
The dawgs will have to play flawless football to beat bama....something they rarely do under Richt.
But anyway...GOOOOOOO Dawgs!
Here’s hoping for Univ of Spoiled Children spoiling Notre Shame’s perfect season and Iowa finding an offense and Defense to take out Nebraska and Michigan whooping those suckeye bastards in ColumbASS.
That would mean Michigan would go to the Big10 championship game and hopefully to the Rose Bowl.
GO BLUE!
I thought Richt was under the gun last year early. Be an amazing rebound. I’m expecting Bama will be 3 1/2 point favorite at least.
While I am not sure how I feel about Notre Dame being back near the top, I do like the idea of a Notre Dame-Alabama title game. That is some serious nostalgia going on!
If Stanford did not get the call at Oregon, it would have been 2nd and 10 from the Oregon 15. Stanford would have had 3 more chances to score.
No, they should be ignored.
There is no national champion without a playoff. Division 1 college football can go pound sand. Every other sport has a playoff, but football continues to sell out for the television dollar. Just ignore the scam until D1 straightens itself out.
The appropriate playoff format almost writes itself. Take eight teams, with no more than one per conference. Four is too few; one would have to leave out major conference champions and quality independents; the selection would depend too much on polls, and teams would be penalized for scheduling tough non-conference opponents and risking a September loss. Sixteen is too many; we would have conference runners-up and three loss teams in the mix. So take eight: one per conference, period, with automatic bids for the top five or six conferences and at least two, preferably three, at large bids for the best of the rest. But no conference runners-up; win your league, or stay at home.
Don't seed it. Draw the names out of a hat. No neutral fields; this is college football, so flip a coin and play the game on one of the contestants home fields. If neutral fields are demanded, then be ecumenical about it; northern tier states should get their fair share of sites, and if that means the SEC has to learn how to play football at Michigan, Nebraska, or Notre Dame in January, so be it.
It was a mistake in the first place for college football and basketball to turn their games into imitations of the pros. The colleges had the superior game. Now they're just NBA/NFL-lite. A shame.
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