Posted on 01/09/2012 1:50:51 PM PST by kathsua
Woulda been great to see Weeden and Blackmon taking on the Alabama D. What a freaking waste.
What a huge pile of horse crap! I’ve watched high schools raises money with “cow pasture bingo” that were of more significance than this game. Where was the LSU that beat Oregon at the beginning of the season? My end-season Ducks would have gone through either one of the jokes that were at the top of the BCS and ended with 100 points. When will the idiots that call themselves administrators and athletic directors realize that the BCS is a sham?
Nonsense. I have no particular animus for the SEC nor do I even like Oklahoma State. I still maintain that they were robbed of their chance by a flawed system, and the computers agree with me, though the sportswriters don't. (And on the whole, I have more use for computers than sportswriters.)
You’re the one spreading the nonsense. A team loses to a third rate opponent and then should be in the national championship game?
OSU had a clear path and blew it, and had wins over what were proved at the end of the season to be overrated opponents. Remember that great, early season clash between #1 Oklahoma and #5 FSU? And ranked Texas? And how does KSU now look after their game with Arkansas, which Bama beat by four touchdowns?
Looking at the full year including the bowl results shows which teams were overrated due to weak opponents.
The SEC fans would agree with you if you brought up the 2004 exclusion of Auburn (12-0) from the BCS title game where USC (now disqualified) played Oklahoma. Man, there was much whining on the FR boards that year.
Remember, Alabama was #1, and lost at home in the world's most boring field goal kicking contest, therefore not even making it to their conference championship game, let alone winning their conference. Meanwhile, OSU's lone loss was worse, but they had more quality wins and won conference title in the second best conference in the country.
I'd say there's at least a reasonable argument in favor of OSU. The only people who seem to dismiss that out of hand are SEC partisans.
(For the record, I'm a Big 10 partisan, but I have the good sense to not claim that any Big 10 team should have even been included in a playoff...)
A playoff would have settled that as well.
As far as disqualified teams are concerned, let’s not even get into the whole murky scenario of how Cam Newton was mysteriously investigated and cleared last year between the end of the regular season and the Heisman award, when his did was out shopping him to the highest bidder.
And of course, we have the Reggie Bush era USC teams. Just as well that Texas beat ‘em anyway thanks to an all-time great effort from Vince Young.
But while that is another significant topic, it’s kind of irrelevant to this discussion, as unless/until teams are DQ’d, the case of BCS standings vs. playoffs is unaffected.
Whine some more but get your facts straight. Alabama was ranked #2 when Alabama and LSU played the first time. So Alabama lost in overtime to the number one team in the country. Quality wins? Unfortunately, the quality loss counted more in the minds of those who vote on this stuff.
SEC has how many in a row?????
That's just a bad joke that people keep repeating. OSU beat several grossly overrated teams. Try to find those teams in the final rankings after twelve or thirteen games have been played.
Bama played two top five teams. The first OSU opponents that can be found are down at #15 and #16. The final rankings give us the real relative strengths of the two teams' schedules. OSU played a weak schedule and lost to a third rate opponent.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/polls
Overtime? OVERTIME?? Everyone whines about the BCS set up being a joke, but the rules of CFB overtime makes the BCS decisions seem brilliant by comparison!
As far as I'm concerned, the first LSU-Alabama matchup was a 6-6 tie. The ADHD public DEMANDS a winner and a loser, so there is an after-the-fact contrivance called overtime to keep the masses happy.
This, of course, is some delicious irony, given the fact that, in kiddy sports, they don't even keep score. EVERYONE is a winner. Can't hurt little Johnny or little Janie's self-esteem, after all.
Here are a couple of those great OSU wins:
OSU 52 KSU 45
OSU 30 A&M 29
The Big 12 is a league unfamiliar with defense. And KSU didn’t finish so well with a 29 - 16 loss to Arkansas, a team both Bama and LSU beat by four touchdowns, and both could have been worse. And A&M was 7-6 this year.
The Big 12 should change their name to the ‘Arena Football League.’
Lol, and the more someone looks, the less impressive that great OSU “body of work” looks. They played a bunch of overrated teams that didn’t look so good after playing a full schedule.
I still recall the great clash between #1 Oklahoma and #5 FSU.
I agree, I’d rather go back to ties.
OSU would have woken up in a roadside ditch.
How did either one of those schools beat Arkansas? Arkansas looked more like a national champion than either LSU or Alabama.
Neither one looked like it belonged in the top 10. There were very few plays that were worth remembering.
The New Year’s Day were much better.
So if the two best heavyweights fight for 15 rounds and there are no knockdowns, that means they aren't the best?
If you enjoy games with Arena League scores. All I saw was a lot of bad defense. Bama or LSU wipe the floor with any of those teams.
Except when they played LSU or Alabama.
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