LSU to play for BCS title (not the best team on either side of the line)

WBRZ TV, Baton Rouge ^ | Dec 3, 2007 | Carl Dubois

[N3WBI3]

Hawaii gets the BOHICA bowl for teams not in ‘bcs conferences’

[N3WBI3]

You would wine too if every team in your conference deserved to be in the top 10... /sarc

[Publius Valerius]

Well, you're right about that. Of course, it's Pitt, which is outside the realm of legitimate football schools. At second- and third-tier schools, contrived championships take on greater meaning because there simply isn't a program or alumni base in place that allows the fans to take meaning from winning games during the regular season. Simply put, Pitt isn't Michigan. It has lower standards. Witness, for instance, re-signing Dave Wannstedt to a long term extension, despite that he's shown nothing but an inability to coach at every head coaching job he's ever had, including Pitt. He recruits great classes and coaches them to mediocrity--but is rewarded with a long-term deal!

As I've pointed out repeatedly before (and to which no one has a reply), if winning National Championships is the be all, end all in college football, explain to me why Lloyd Carr was run out of town in Ann Arbor.

[tutstar]

ping...

[tabsternager]

“I would venture that Oklahoma, USC or Georgia would smash either, particularly a weak LSU team that needed a desperation interception at the end of the game Saturday evening vs Tennessee to clinch that win.”

I agree. I think this year is the best example yet of why there should be playoffs.

BTW, no offense to Illinois, but I believe the real reason that Georgia was not chosen for the Rose Bowl was because that game would upstage the “championship” game. The BCS is a joke.

[Osage Orange]

Hawaii's opponents went a combined 53 wins & 93 losses....

While I think the Wahoos are a good team...they aren't worthy of the Top 10...let alone the number one spot.

[tutstar]

The only reason GA beat the Gators is that Tebow was injured.

[Sideshow Bob]

You would wine too if every team in your conference deserved to be in the top 10... /sarc

ROTFLMAO

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[fraggledydude]

A weak LSU that beat Tenn and has a month to recouperate before smashing OSU.

Desperation interception.. LOL It was the interception of a bad pass. That’s called defense.

[rogue yam]

As a Wolverine I care about the following three things in descending order of importance:

1. Beat Ohio State.
2. Win the Big Ten.
3. Win a bowl game, preferably the Rose Bowl.

[Alberta's Child]

Another excellent point. It seemed like almost every national title game in the 1980s involved Penn State, Miami, or both!

[Alberta's Child]

Once you get past the national championship game, you have a lot of bowl selections that are based primarily on economic considerations. Big 10 vs. Pac-10 has a lot of drawing power in the Rose Bowl, and an SEC team like Georgia will draw well in the Sugar Bowl. Even though a Rose Bowl contest between USC and Georgia would generate a good TV audience, there’s a decent possibility that the game wouldn’t even be a sellout.

[Michael.SF.]

Problem is, they had those two bad days... ;)

Speaking as a Trojan fan I firmly believe that:

1) USC, if they play as they are capable, would beat either LSU or Ohio State.

2) The Champion has to be judged on the whole season, not just on who is hot now. Based on that, USC does not deserve to be in the Championship game.

3) This is the craziest season we have all seen in a long time.

[FreeAtlanta]

Whoever sold that line of garbage, was Les Miles. You bought it along with ESPN, who then sold it to the BcS voters. Congratulations.

[gondramB]

Comiung in late here but LSU and Ohio state are the two teams I’d bet on in a head to head match up with anyone else so that, from my perspective makes them the two best teams and thus the teams that should be in the championship game.

But I’d prefer we just went back to the bowls - I liked the debate better.

[tabsternager]

“Once you get past the national championship game, you have a lot of bowl selections that are based primarily on economic considerations.”

Okay. Then perhaps the real reason for choosing Illinois over Georgia is that Chicago has a much bigger TV audience than Atlanta. But whatever the reason, the BCS is fixed and cheats the fans who want to know who the best team really is.

BTW, I very much doubt that a Rose Bowl game between USC and Georgia wouldn’t be a sellout. I think it would be a surer sellout than Illinois/USC.

[Repeal 16-17]

The BCS is pure junk and has to go.

There has been a true Division 1 National Champion for football. You don't become a champion of a sport via an election; you do it on the field/court/ice. Until the NCAA learns this, there will never be a Division 1 National Champion for football.

[FreeAtlanta]

They won’t be undefeated after the Sugar bowl. It is going to be ugly. UGA and Richt learned their lesson after overlooking West Virginia a few years ago. Hawaii is going to be medicine for what sickens them.

[FreeAtlanta]

I guess we won’t know until next year. However, I think you are wrong. UGA had Cryer’s number this year.

[FreeAtlanta]

I wouldn’t say every team, but Georgia, Florida, LSU, Tennessee, Kentucky, Auburn, Arkansas and possibly even Vanderbilt, yes.