Our OOC schedule includes a 5-5 Pac-10 team, a horrible Sun Belt team, and a 1-AA team. On top of that we lost to a 4-6 Tennessee team whose other 3 wins came against UAB (17-10), Ole Miss (27-10) and Memphis (20-16) We're exactly where we should be in the computers. If we win out, we should be #3 in the BCS. The BCS isn't out to "get" the SEC. SEC teams need to learn to schedule better OOC teams (or tighten up their contracts so teams don't pull out). The computers helped us win a NC in '03. The polls are 2/3 this year, and we are #3 in both polls. LSU fans will find anything to bitch about.....
Well it's true, no? Don't get me wrong, LSU has some of the (if not the) most passionate fans in all of college FB. However, that passion also shades most of them from reality in LSU related issues.
Actually, no it's not. That year's BCS was much more computer-heavy and had a separate and pronounced strength of schedule component. If you plugged LSU's numbers from this year into the 2003 model BCS, they'd be wa-a-a-a-y behind most other 1-loss teams. Being brutally honest, there's a very pronounced *pro* SEC bias to the human polls, something counterbalanced by the computers this season. Even in a "down" SEC, you have LSU, Auburn, Georgia, Alabama and Florida ranked, with S. Carolina pulling some votes. That's 25% of the human poll--in a down year!
