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BCS standings released, Week 15: Ohio State vs. Auburn the final rankings debate
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| Dec 1 2013
| Jason Kirk
Posted on 12/02/2013 8:34:12 AM PST by xzins
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To: lepton
With players later declared ineligible...
leave it to Arkansas to screw up the SEC’s perfect record against OSU.
To: C. Edmund Wright
Not what I am talking about. I was referring to when Oregon played Auburn in the title game a couple of years ago.
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posted on
12/02/2013 11:57:10 AM PST
by
RatRipper
(The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
To: xzins
Good offensive linemen don’t grow on trees, on most teams there is a huge drop-off in quality between first and second string interior linemen.
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posted on
12/02/2013 11:57:50 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
To: RatRipper
I was referring to when Oregon played Auburn in the title game a couple of years ago.That terrible field ruined that game, IMHO.
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posted on
12/02/2013 11:58:44 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
To: Hotlanta Mike
We are also talking about many seasons where Big 10 teams are ranked high all season until they get smacked in bowl games.
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posted on
12/02/2013 11:58:48 AM PST
by
RatRipper
(The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
To: C. Edmund Wright
I’m a huge fan of pouring it onto a team in the first quarter. Take away hope as quickly as possible. Let them hang with you into the 3rd quarter and you’ve put adenalyn into their system.
That’s why #61 Tennessee beat #12 South Carolina this year.
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posted on
12/02/2013 11:59:13 AM PST
by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: Wyatt's Torch
leave it to Arkansas to screw up the SECs perfect record against OSU. Should have stayed in the Southwest Conference.
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posted on
12/02/2013 11:59:27 AM PST
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dfwgator
(Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
To: C. Edmund Wright
I'm a huge fan of pouring it onto a team in the first quarter. Take away hope as quickly as possible. Let them hang with you into the 3rd quarter and you've put Adrenalin into their system.
That's why #61 Tennessee beat #12 South Carolina this year.
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posted on
12/02/2013 11:59:32 AM PST
by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: dfwgator
I would call it a drop-off in experience. Saban doesn’t recruit junkyard at Alabama and waste a scholarship. JMHO. Sure, someone’s going to win the starting job, but freshmen and sophomore linemen can’t be chopped liver. They’re the future gaining experience.
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:02:28 PM PST
by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: fungoking
If Manziel is still playing, there's really not so much can be said about anyone else short of an ax murder.
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:04:02 PM PST
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xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: Wyatt's Torch
“With players later declared ineligible...”
For exchanging mementos for tattoos. Wasn’t that a pathetic plateful of knucklehead. Wasn’t even recruiting violations or agents paying players.
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:06:46 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Hotlanta Mike
Davis deserves it, but I’ve been in geology class. If it caused a pause, I’d clap for the intramural badminton champ.
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:06:46 PM PST
by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: xzins; dfwgator
I've been itching to jump into the injury conversation. Another thing about withstanding injuries is having a team like Ohio State who can lose their starting QB Braxton Miller on several occasions only to have another top conference QB in Kenny Guiton to take his place.
Heck there have been occasions where Meyer admitted to thinking about starting Guiton over Miller.
Injuries at the college level can also reflect the depth of the overall program. Maybe a team goes from world-beaters to mediocre based on an injury or two. But a national championship caliber team simply reloads when a starter goes down.
To: dfwgator
Here’s what’s gonna happen. OSU will play FSU, and just as with ND last year, they’ll get destroyed..
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:10:51 PM PST
by
ken5050
(Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
To: xzins
Someone mentioned that the Big 10 usually comes south and beats teams during the bowl season - I can't find the post.
The SEC has an all-time winning bowl record against the Big 10 - something close to 60%.
And OSU's bowl record against the SEC is 0-10.
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:12:22 PM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: xzins
I absolutely agree that the SEC has been dominant for going on a decade, but those things are cyclical. It wasnt too long ago that we were blasting Pete Carroll.I had little use for Pete Carroll and the USC Trojans except embarrassing SEC teams in OOC games. They had a nice little run going there about 8-10 years ago.
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:12:25 PM PST
by
CommerceComet
(Enough with politicians, this conservative is only voting for someone with courage and conviction.)
To: lepton
To: for-q-clinton
Besides N. Illinois isnt an AQ. Doesn't matter. A non-AQ team ranked in the top 12 (or 16 if it finishes ahead of an AQ team) is guaranteed a BCS game. If NIU is undefeated, should it be in the national title game?
To: dfwgator
That terrible field ruined that game, IMHO.Any game which results in an Oregon loss cannot be characterized as "ruined" in any way, shape, or form!
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posted on
12/02/2013 12:19:23 PM PST
by
CommerceComet
(Enough with politicians, this conservative is only voting for someone with courage and conviction.)
To: for-q-clinton
“BTW: Alabama only dropping to #4 is a crock. A loss in the last week of the season deserves a lot steeper drop than that.”
Why? A drop from #1 to #4 is significant for a team that has hung out in 1st place most of the year.
All of these top tier teams are good and deserving of respect.
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