Posted on 01/08/2008 7:50:51 AM PST by meandog
NEW ORLEANS -- With the 2007 football season complete, here's the game plan for 2008:
Jim Tressel's Ohio State team has lost back-to-back games for the BCS national championship.
We need border patrols along Interstate 10, from Jacksonville to Pensacola. A Coast Guard blockade at Biscayne Bay. And the FAA should redirect all inbound flights to South Florida from Ohio.
If you see a silver helmet and a sweater vest coming, contact authorities.
Because next year's BCS National Championship Game will be played in Miami, and the Ohio State Buckeyes aren't invited. Especially if the Southeastern Conference champion is invited.
If you've ever seen lions maul a water buffalo, you've seen the last two title games. You've seen a fierce pair of SEC teams -- Florida last year, LSU this year -- blow the vulnerable Buckeyes back to the Bratwurst Belt by a combined 41 points. You've seen the best of one league flex, and the best of an inferior league collapse
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Stanford and Oregon.
OSU doesn't always lose the big one. Does 2002 ring a bell for anyone? Anyone? OK, thought so.
It's a privilege to play in the title game and the Buckeyes came up short against LSU. Tigers are a real good team.
OK big mouth...we will see you in L.A. this September 13, and next year in Columbus on September 12.
Except Texas.
As a girl originally from North Carolina, can’t say I’m unhappy about that!
They got beat by OK in the big 12 title game and did not deserve to be there. They had their chance and didn’t take it. So no whining about not getting credit.
Buckeyes not only choked big time again, they lost all self control as evidenced by the numerous personal fouls called.
Its embarrassing.
It was funny when the announcer kept riffing on the sweater vest, well, at least for the first 6 minutes of the game. After it became abundantly clear who was the better team on the field, he stopped making reference to it.
With the obvious depth of talent that a great program like SC has, should that have mattered?
Mizzou lost 2 games to the same team. And that team was ranked top 5 both times, Oklahoma. Did any other BCS team play twice against the same team? Especially ranked so highly? Oklahoma lost to an unranked team, Texas Tech.
LSU lost 2 games, Arkansas was unranked. So was??Bama??
But we can overlook two losses to unranked teams vs two losses to a top 5 team?
Nearly every team Missouri played was either ranked, or finished the season ranked. Illinois was not a BCS team. But I guess it felt good for the WAC to beat a big 10 team in the Rose. USC lost to an unranked team. Injurys always play a part in a season. Thats the way the chips fall.
Mizzou was missing their star running back (Tony Temple, who made the dreaded running game of Arkansas look mediocre at best) during the first OU gane, and only lost because of a tipped ball for an interception. 2nd Game Mizzou was missing their star reciever and a tight end. So injurys were a big part of how their chips fell also.
We can ignore USC because of injury, but diss Mizzou.
Kansas won their game respectably. Missouri won their game big. Oklahoma floundered. The two team per conference rule has to be amended or there will always be a contender for the championship left out. Missouri was the highest ranked team not included. That is a travesty.
LSU lost twice and they still got a chance........
Why did they deserve to be there???
Only one BCS team has one loss, KU.
SEC was the best conference from top to bottom this year. I believe 9 of the 12 teams made it to bowl games. And 7 of the 9 won from what I remember. Seems like at various times during the season, the SEC had 4-5 teams in the top 25 at any one time.
I agree UGA was very hot down the stretch. And also USC. Maybe LSU and USC would have been a better game.
I still don’t see why we can’t do a “mini-playoff” season. Play all the bowls as usual. Put the top 4 teams in 2 of the BCS bowls. The winner of these 2 BCS bowls play the next weekend. Only makes 1 more game, and the university presidents still get all their traditional bowl money.
There’s a reason one guy is first string, and another’s the back up.
The Buckeyes would finish fourth (maybe) in the SEC. OSU lost to an average Illinois team who got hammered by ‘SC on Jan 1 (and it could have been worse). Just schedule Mid-American conference schools and throw in a horrible PAC-10 (this year it was Washington), play in a crappy conference and hope you make it to the BCS Championship game.
And, you wonder why the big 10 isn’t in favor of a playoff system?
And that loss was to Missouri.
Agreed, Missouri should have been in a BCS bowl.
Don’t let the haters get you down. I’m a Florida fan, and everybody else is just jealous that their school hasn’t made it to the last two football championships and the last basketball championship game. OSU has had a heck of a run, and they aren’t going away.
It’s not that OSU is a bad team. They aren’t. But they weren’t the #1 team in the country coming into the game. They just looked like it because the Big Eleven is not a deep conference—it’s much weaker from the middle on down than the SEC. So they’re playing weaker teams, pounding them, running up their stats, and looking better than they actually are. They ended up #5 in the AP poll and I’m thinking that’s about right.
You could tell it was going to be a bad year for the Big Eleven halfway through the Appalachian State/Michigan game. Here’s a supposed “powerhouse” of the Big Ten Plus One, and the best I-AA team in the country is making them look like they’re all wearing concrete cleats. That was what struck me about that game and the Oregon game the next week—aside from Hart, Michigan just looked so incredibly slow.
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Yes there is, but is there that much difference on a team with the quality and depth of talent that is as great as USC is reputed to be?
it always matters. SC only has depth at a couple positions and lost a lot of coaches last year. With the lack of starters and new coaches, Pete is good but ...
08 should be great of SC this year.
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