My take: USC has NO claim to being the best. Beating Ill gets you no points. Same for Georgia. Come back when you actually play a meaningful BCS game.
The SEC is clearly top dog: 7-2 in bowls if I remember, with big bowl wins. The Big-12, despite OU’s inexplicible annual BCS meltdown is second with several quality bowl wins. Their only other bowl losses were by middle tier teams. The Pac-10 and the Big-10 reveal themselves to be the weaker conferences.
If you want a plus 1 format, then, USC and Georgia better play someone in a BCS game. This year, it would have been LSU vs either Kansas or WV. Playing Ill or the WAC gets you no plus 1 respect. I, personally, would have actually stayed up to watch LSU vs. WV in a plus 1 title game.
My only other take: get rid of the stupid 2 team per conference rule. Mizzou was screwed by the selection from the wackety WAC that thinks it deserves annual BCS title consideration.
As a rabid Buckeye fan I’m,
A) Sick of this “keep the money in Ohio” crud scheduling Akron, Bowling Green, Miami, Kent State stuff.
B) Same with the Big Ten. I don’t think there is a decent QB in all the Big Ten.
C) Jim Heacock and his zone, zone blitz schemes. OSU defense is a facade and when put up against a real offense they crumble for lack of strong line play and the inability to cover the TE.
The last two years was a real embarressment for a program that puts so many young men in the pros the problem starts at the top. Today I’m not much of a Tressel or his staff fan.
The only game Ohio State will ever get up for is Michigan.
Ahhh the true meaning of SEC
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