Posted on 12/03/2007 11:06:43 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan
The BCS is pure junk and has to go. If the other divisions in college footbball can have a playoff, Div 1 can also. Get rid of this crap.
UGA was screwed ... but who didn’t see it coming?
“..Georgia would smash either..”
I am not a U of Georgia alumnus but I fully agree with you.
Three chances to be number One? Who ever heard of this sort of crap?
No one, how many times have this many top teams had two losses?
The whole point of these bowl games derails the universities. The country and the school forget their prime reason for existence is academic education - not entertainment/sports/games, etc. The push for state champions at high school level and national champion at college level have distorted the education process and pushed it into the background.
Lots of parents sacrifice their kids on the altar of performance in the sports arena, to their shame.
Sports are a religious experience for many, a “new drug” for others. Too much.
It’s the BS title.
Their starting QB was injured for those two games. That said, they don’t play smart and they lack discipline as a team. A fairly common theme for Pete Carrol teams.
Because this year had too many teams getting knocked off who were in the #1 or #2 spot. Never seen it before on this scale.
What exactly is a “desperation interception”?
This is from the same coach that kept referring toArkansas as Ar-Kansas.
USC is not the best team in the nation.
Big 12 I could buy. Who did Georgia lose to?
Virginia Tech also has a good argument to have gotten into the championship game... JMHO.
UGA needs to win their division first before whinning.
Tell us how you really feel. Geaux tigers!
Tennessee, by a bunch. They also lost to South Carolina, which at the time didn’t seem too bad. In hindsight, that was a really bad loss.
Not coincidentally those two bad days happened when their injury list was brutal. Now that they're healthy again they're back to the top-tier.
I'd like to see GA vs. HA. ....not in the Sugar Bowl, in the championship game.
Maybe one day NCAAF will have a system where teams actually have to win games to make it to the championship game rather that rely on a computer program and the votes of AP hack writers. ....you know, a playoff system -- like every other major sport, college or pro. Voting and judging is for freaking figure skating, not football.
GA couldn’t even get into the SEC championship game, lost to TN [lost 35-14] and SC, and narrowly beat Vanderbilt and Alabama. LSU deserved to be picked ahead of GA since it did win the SEC title and beat TN.
You can’t argue that Georgia was screwed. If you can’t win your conference’s division title, much less the conference, you have no business playing for the national title. Georgia shouldn’t even be in a BCS bowl, much less the title game.
The only teams with any business playing for the championship are Ohio State, Oklahoma and, yes, LSU.
You can talk about Ohio State’s non-conference schedule all you want, but since none of the four have non-conference losses it loses some relevance. Good wins against Michigan and Wisconsin, with a respectable loss to a tough Illinois team. Good wins and a respectable loss, but not dazzling enough to be a clear #1.
LSU, Oklahoma and USC have two losses. USC’s two losses were inexcusable. LSU and Oklahoma both play in tougher conferences, but LSU’s two losses were triple-overtime squeakers, one on the road at Kentucky and one in a rivalry game against a Heisman-quality star. Oklahoma’s Texas Tech loss isn’t bad, but the Colorado loss is.
I’d go with LSU and Oklahoma instead of Ohio State, but OSU isn’t a bad choice. There’s parity in college football now, so the #1 and #2 aren’t clear-cut anymore.
Except that LSU killed them.
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