Cal angry, frustrated after Texas takes Rose Bowl spot

AP via yahoo ^ | 12/5/04 | GREG BEACHAM,

[SevenMinusOne]

When Oklahoma destroys USC you will see why. The Big 12 South makes PAC 10 look like high school football. Ok State beat UCLA 31-20 and USC squeaked by UCLA with a 5 point margin this weekend. OSU would beat USC, and Texas would also. A&M may also. Tech will school Cal. Don't you just love this time of the year?

I remember you Sooners talking sh*t last year after back-dooring your way into the National Championship....then getting it handed to you hard by LSU - But I do agree ...Love this time of year!

[ThreeYearLurker]

Put down the crack pipe, Texas always chokes the big games.

[1L]

There's no question the Big 12 South was a monster of a division (5 teams ranked in top 25 for a good part of the year -- I think all 5 are in the top 35 of at least some computers), but Cal struggled in only 2 games: a loss to the number one team in the country that they were competitive in, and another game to a 5-6 Oregon team.

t.u. on the other hand wasn't competitive with OU in the least, should have lost to KU, struggled against Mizzou, and was down at halftime to OkSU (big) and A&M. They won both games with great second half performances, but both teams completely collapsed and didn't even put up a fight.

I can't understand how a ten point win on the road against a 6-5 team can cause anyone to drop.

[Petronski]

Cal is out, but Pitt is in?



Good Lord, the BCS sucks.

[lawnguy]

Here's what I would do: The AD of Cal and Auburn get together and hammer out a game after the season. Neutral site, highest bidder among all networks get the game. They get the cash, NCAA gets the finger, and we get one more great game.

[j_tull]

Michigan v.Cal would be good. Two leftie schools banging each other in California. Perfect. That said, PAC-10 is the Rodney Dangerfield of BCS conferences.

[Brilliant]

yES!

[Rhetorical pi2]

If we are going to talk about "who's left out", we have to rank Auburn as the one left out in the cold.

Winning fourteen games in a row - going back to last season... Beating four teams ranked in the top ten when they played them - like LSU, co-national champion...allowing only one rushing touchdown all season until the SEC Championship last night...scoring on their opening drive in every game but one...truly a special team.

The BCS critics have predicted something like this would happen, but every year the supporters say that by season's end, everybody will lose at least one game. It didn't happen, and there is no playoff system to resolve the dispute...and the BCS Gods still rule NCAA Football.

Bring on the playoffs!!!

[martinidon]

In my opinion, the time to complain about the system and your bowl selection is AFTER you win your bowl game. If Texas Tech comes in and thumps Cal they will have deserved to be left out of the Rose Bowl.

[martinidon]

In my opinion, the time to complain about the system and your bowl selection is AFTER you win your bowl game. If Texas Tech comes in and thumps Cal they will have deserved to be left out of the Rose Bowl.

[SevenMinusOne]

There's no question the Big 12 South was a monster of a division (5 teams ranked in top 25 for a good part of the year

Agree with about everything you said in your post but the above statement - I simply think the Big 12 teams were over-ranked from the begining....thus continually helping them in the polls as the season went -

But completely agree - how you win by 10 on the road and drop is crazy (CAL) -

[doctor noe]

That sounds like a typically idiotic statement from some biased college football fan from east of the Divide. So what if Cal didn't win the Pac-10? Texas didn't win the Big-12 either! Put your unbiased goggles on and look at both teams...Aaron Rodgers is a 1st round pick and the Cal offense is a 2-dimensional wonder. Texas couldn't pass gas, much less a football. Who's whining? It certainly isn't Cal...Mack Brown has been whining for the past 2 weeks and evidently it paid off. Maybe after this season, the Pac-10 will tell the BCS and everybody else to go screw themselves. The Pac-10 should tell everybody that if their league champion goes to the BCS championship, then their league runnerup will go to the Rose Bowl. Cal got screwed worse than USC did last year. Yet, in both years, both Pac-10 schools reacted with complete class. Unlike, Texas and Auburn...neither team could hold USC's, Oklahoma's or Cal's jock strap.

[pete anderson]

Without Question Auburn got shafted. I think they are better than USC.

[Alberta's Child]

To follow up what I said before in an earlier post on this thread . . .

Any team that comes out of the SEC at 12-0 should practically be given the national title without even playing for it in a bowl game.

[dmc8576]

Hook 'em

[dufekin]

Sep 4 at #72 Air Force W, 56-14
Sep 11 vs #83 New Mexico State W, 41-14
Oct 2 at #23 Oregon State W, 49-7
Oct 9 at #1 Southern California L, 23-17
Oct 16 vs #31 UCLA W, 45-28
Oct 23 at #74 Arizona W, 38-0
Oct 30 vs #14 Arizona State W, 27-0
Nov 6 vs #51 Oregon W, 28-27
Nov 13 at #102 Washington W, 42-12
Nov 20 vs #58 Stanford W, 41-6
Dec 4 at #63 Southern Miss W, 26-16

Hmm...2-1 against the top 25. And 26-16 against a #63 team is thoroughly unimpressive. A one-pont win hosting the #51 team is perhaps worse.

[pete anderson]

If Texas Tech comes in and thumps Cal they will have deserved to be left out of the Rose Bowl.

Does that mean I have to cheer for the Sand Aggies?

[Arkinsaw]

What do you expect when you have an athletic competition decided by an opinion poll. Asinine.

[txhurl]

Ook'em.

[Dolphy]

Michigan v.Cal would be good. Two leftie schools banging each other in California.

I'm a Michigan grad and left handed, but that doesn't make me or the football team lefties:)