Posted on 11/01/2010 7:16:50 AM PDT by C19fan
Top 10:
1: Oregon
2: Auburn
3: TCU
4: BSU
5: Utah
6: 'Bama
7: Nebraska
8: Oklahoma
9: Wisconsin
10: LSU
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The rest of the country finds it hard to understand that the winner of the SEC is,for all intent and purposes,the best team in America.
Let ANY of the other “Top Ten” schools have an SEC schedule and then check their rankings.
GO GAMECOCKS THE REAL USC!!!
Go Ducks! Still a tough road but looks doable to make for a great Fantasy FB Championship.
Titus Young and Austin Pettis should both be drafted quickly in next years draft.
But TCU and Utah both make good arguments for making it, too. They play each other, plus Utah plays BCS-computer darling Notre Dame, while TCU beat a good 7-2 Baylor team in Waco.
Any of those three should be playing Auburn (if they win out).
Oregon benefitted immensely from MSU and Missouri losing as they jumped from #8 to #2 in the computer polls. Auburn moved up from #3 to #2 in the “human polls” and are a unanimous #1 in the computers. Auburn actually increased its BCS points from last week but Oregon increased them more. Auburn lead last week from #1 to #3 is less than it is this week from #2 to #3. Plain and simple, if Oregon and Auburn win out they will meet in Glendale.
War Eagle!
Boise State - as proven above - has offered to play any SEC team in that team’s own house. Nothing is asked for in return, nothing.
Every single SEC team has turned them down. That tells you all you need to know. The SEC knows Boise State is the best team in the country, and is yellow to the core for not wanting to be exposed by a non-BCS conference team.
The SEC emperor has no clothes on.
No SEC team has anything to gain by playing such a weak team that wins because of a weak schedule.
SEC Schedules are made 3 years in advance. That may explain the refusals. So if Boise wants to play them in 2014, maybe something can be worked out.
SEC Schedules are made 3 years in advance. That may explain the refusals. So if Boise wants to play them in 2014, maybe something can be worked out.
BTW..I think that this is Auburn's year...FINALLY...
I think BSU is a really good team. But because of the weak schedule no one knows just how good they are. It's that simple. Nev, Hawaii are nothing. VT lost to JMU! OSU is decent but has 3 losses already.
Nebraska loses at home to Texas which already has 3 losses to UCLA (at home), Oklahoma and Baylor (at home), and they move ahead of Ohio State which lost to Wisconsin on the road.
That’s because all of the east and west coast sportwriters love Nebraska. /s...
Do you have a link to show that they have asked all 12 SEC teams? I have never seen that. Thanks.
Boise can’t have it both ways. Bobby Bowden built FSU by playing “anyone, anywhere, anytime” but they won’t do it. They won’t accept 2 for 1s or one off games.
I would have to find the source, but I believe I heard the AD at one of the big SEC schools say they offered Boise a million for one game and they were turned down.
Boise cannot sit in their 30-40k stadium and expect 1 for 1 home and homes with big schools.
Boise is spinning....if you notice they ALWAYS have a lot of time before their “big games”...to get injuries healed and to have time to prepare.
If they had to play Alabama’s schedule, the attrition would get them by the second half of the schedule.
In a one off game, sure they could win, but they couldn’t play Penn St, Florida, Arkansas, S. Carolina, LSU, Tennessee, Miss St, Auburn etc week after week because they don’t have the depth to survive.
And they won’t take the games to prove that theory wrong.
Too bad Boise....too bad. Man up and play somebody.
http://www.tidesports.com/article/20100924/NEWS/100929812
Boise has not contacted Alabama as of Sept. 23rd.
-—”Those teams are middle of the pack or lower in the SEC, Big12 or BigTen.”-—
And yet, that never seems to matter when considering wins over those teams by Ohio State, Alabama, or Nebraska. They are big conference teams, so beating them is always hard and can’t be seen as a lesser win for Ohio State/Alabama/Nebraska.
But when Boise State does it - hey! That does really count. Sure, they are big conference teams, but that doesn’t mean it’s hard to beat them.......
Boise State put OSU and VT on the schedule this year, et al, and it didn’t make a damn bit of difference; neither will having beat 4-5 ranked teams by the end of the year. Next year they have ‘Ol Miss, et al. They can run the tables then, too, but it won’t matter. It never does, because it’s not really about the opponents.
It’s about keeping the money in the big conferences.
I keep hearing the argument about who Boise State plays. How many of you BCS apologists’ big conference teams could go into Boise and win? I’ll take that bet any day.
I like how no one ever thinks Boise or TCU would gain anything if they joined the Big XII or SEC. Is it likely they could handle the schedule right now? Probably not. With the advantage of being in that conference their recruiting would improve dramatically. Add that to a well coached program and they would be able to compete in short order.
It’s that f’ing blue field Titan, no one can see on that grotesque thing. It burns out the blue receptors in normal people’s eyes. You’re team must wear some weird, special contact lenses to protect your eyes or something. If BSU would ditch that BS blue field I guarantee you, you’d get more votes. You can bitch all you want about schedules but geez, that field has got to go. No one can stand to watch BSU play...how can you get any votes when no one can stand watch you play on that f’ing blue field!?!?? ;o)
“No SEC team has anything to gain by playing such a weak team that wins because of a weak schedule.”
That argument is just plain weak. Look at any SEC team’s OOC schedule, you will see traditional power houses like La Monroe, The Tennessee School for the visualy impaired, ect.... It happens every year. The SEC is nothing more than ESPN hype.
If TCU beats #5 Utah, that should help their SOS. Nevada losing was a big blow to Boise State’s chances.
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