Posted on 01/05/2005 8:38:56 AM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
I fully agree and have been saying the same for years. This is also evidenced in NCAA Basketball ratings.
So is frost in Hell, or is UCLA pregnant? :)
Arizona - They will surprise a lot people next year.
True, but at this rate a winning season would be a surprise
Arkansas - Doubtful
Less likely than USC losing to Oregon.
Cal - They have peaked and are going to fall further next year.
Not with Tedford's recruiting classes just making on the field. Cal has turned the corner.
Playing The Citadel, a 1-AA team, was probably enough to keep AU out of the championship game. To their credit, that one wasn't their fault. They were scheduled to play Bowling Green, but Bowling Green backed out of the contract when they had an opportunity to play, you guessed it, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma has a great program going, but they were totally outclassed last night. And Jason White is the single biggest example of overrated hype I've ever seen. IMO the guy was never anything special at all, much less deserving of the Heisman. It's a joke that someone who is widely considered not to be a serious pro prospect, is yet somehow the best back in college football. That's absurd on its face, and always has been.
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Cal pulled off the OT upset of USC last year. They got screwed out of a Rose Bowl berth this year, because of voting collusion. At least Texas showed they were deserving of the choice.
I will never forgive the Orange Bowl for invading my brain-space with that train wreck of a halftime show.
Kudos to USC....they came ready to play..and took advantage of what OU gave them.
FWIW-
I agree with all your comments and did omit Oregon from my list as a possible (my bad).
Having attended about 20 USC vs. UCLA games there us one thing that holds true, year after year.......... you just never know what might happen.
Very Good Point! I might have been a little eager to get a dig in on UCLA. :)
It's what the NCAA does in soccer. They could even do a top 6 teams playoff. But...then how would you decide who goes and who doesnt?
As a Gator fan, I can honestly say there is no way we deserved to be in the Top 25. But hopefully thinks will start to change in Gainesville starting next season.
I should have added: "except for Cal"
I am still not convinced that Tedford is the next Knute Rockne, as the Cal fans seem to think. Hell, he is not even the next Pete Carroll.
Cal was overated much of the year, as Texas Tech proved.
South Bend in mid October can always be tricky.
Fight On!
Very true, but I think the ND program has a big corner to turn, one which may take more then one season.
I have it on good authority that Oklahoma is thinking of dropping 'Boomer Sooner' as their fight song because the football team has had problems remembering the lyrics.
yup.......Big 12 was whipped and if Cal had been healthy after losing their two best wide receivers and best defensive roving back I think it would have been more of a shootout like last year when Cal beat VT like 50 to 46 or something like that in the insight bowl. I"ll still give TTU credit but this Big 12 superiority is more like an inferiority complex.......where are those big mouths now.....
And USC played 1 ranked school (California who gave them a close game) that got crushed in their Bowl game by Texas Tech. Oklahoma was overrated, and Auburn got robed.
You cannot control your conference games, only the non conference ones. SC played and beat Tech in what ammounted to a home game for the ACC champs and they also played Norte Dame. ND is off this year but it's one of those rivalries that has been around forever.
If Auburn had played better teams with its optional games they could have perhaps gotten to the final game.
The BIG 12 stinks. I call it the Big joke. The SEC is the strongest conference in college football.
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