They drop based purely on the polls trying to display no bias toward SEC. It will not however be lower than LSU unless they stomp the dogshit out of Bama.
Um...what? How is the 4-team playoff going to take luster from the bowl games? Especially when you're talking about the BCS bowls and their permanent conference tie-ins, those games are usually blowouts and really not much fun to watch. I've never been interested in a matchup enough to watch an Orange Bowl, The Rose deals with two conferences that I have utter disdain for, and the Fiesta is usually a shootout between a high-flying BXII team and a BCS buster. Yawn... But playoff games that determine who plays for the title? I'll tune in for that.
If LSU went on the win the SEC, would they fall behind us then? You'd almost have to think they'd have to.
Every game and every week is a playoff in itself. The bowl games won't mean nearly as much if there is a "playoff" like we have in other sports and divisions. As I said, in the end, it doesn't. even. matter. If you go 14-0 in the FBS, you will be ranked in the top 10 and will be conference champs and will have won a very prestigious bowl game. What does that equate to? Money. It's all about money. The rankings, bowls, and BCS berths take care of themselves in the system that is already in place. Whining about it only makes the regular season that much less important.
Sad fact of truth is unless we blow Bama out, a close win for us just provides a weeks worth of "Bama beat themselves" stories for their tv shows.
The regular season will arguably have MORE importance with the playoff. The teams outside of the top eight at this point in the season are pretty much dead ducks at this point...they have no shot at rising up to the top two. However, if all they had to do was get to number four, their season is still alive.
Not really. A team that lost AT home as the favorite, didn't win their division and watched their conference championship game on television, went to and won the BCS last season. Looking over theirs and another teams body of work from last year, show the team above played an easier schedule then the team who should've played in their spot in the BCS.
A similar, but not as horrific, thing happened on '03, when Okie went on to play despite losing their conference title game. I guess in their case they at least won THEIR DIVISION.
All that will go away because they aren't favored in the computers they are riding off voters and the voters will drop them with a loss to LSU.
Spurrier knows better, he's running off at the mouth as usual. Every now and then the brain trust at ESPN will trot out this argument about how the current greatest college football team to ever grace the earth could beat the worst NFL team. And the correct answer is always the same. The college team would be utterly decimated and demolished by the end of the first quarter. It would be like a good HS team playing a college team full of senior AA's at every position. The premise is absurd, but gotta grab those ratings, yo. Now I can very well see Bama getting ranked ahead of us, but the undefeateds likely aren't going anywhere until they lose.
