Please do not write to national sports websites and show your ignorance to college football anymore. It is not attractive and, quite frankly, pretty laughable. This poor Trojan schmuck wrote CNNSI.com and asked Stewart Mandel this question...THEN said LSU's defense sucked against Ole Miss and Eli. Check out old Stewy's response (bitch slap to the Trojan nation): What makes you assume that LSU would stand even a ghost of a chance in head-to-head competition with USC? Surely you know that SC is probably the only team with even a remote chance against the Mack truck called the University of Oklahoma! LSU's defense did not look very good against Ole Miss and they were VERY lucky to escape with a win. Wouldn't you rather see the stronger team play a nearly unbeatable Oklahoma? -- Rex Wignall, Murrieta, Calif. Again, not to beat a dead horse from Sunday's column, but I'm literally baffled by this near-universal assumption out there that USC is the stronger team. "Oklahoma and USC are now one victory apiece from meeting ... in a controversy-free, debate-void Sugar Bowl," the Miami Herald proclaimed Monday. "A Neat and Tidy Top Two," read the headline in The New York Times. Are you kidding me? What is so neat and tidy and controversy-free about two teams winning the same number of games by nearly the same exact margins (USC: 23.4, LSU: 23.8) against what by the end of the season will be ranked as nearly the same exact schedule strength? At least we know the famed East Coast bias doesn't apply to the Trojans. As for your assessment of the potential Oklahoma matchup, I've got to ask: Did CBS show a different LSU-Ole Miss game in California? LSU's defense didn't look good? I'm guessing Eli Manning doesn't share that opinion. If I had to guess which defense would cause more problems for Jason White, of course I'm going to take the Tigers, which have held three elite quarterbacks -- Manning, Georgia's David Greene and Louisiana Tech's Luke McCown -- to 43.6 percent passing and 223.7 yards per game, over the Trojans and their 101st-ranked pass defense. On the flip side, of course, USC has a far more potent offense than LSU, and while I'm guessing the Tigers would have a lot of trouble moving the ball against the Sooners, the Trojans would at least have the potential to break big plays. Fact is, the two teams -- if LSU beats Arkansas and Georgia -- will be as even as it gets on paper, and it will be up to a clunky computer formula to break the deadlock. Give the BCS credit for one thing, though: If this scenario had happened 15 years ago, Oklahoma would be playing in the Orange Bowl, LSU in the Sugar and USC in the Rose.
I know it's irritating, but don't let it get to you too badly. You think their kvetching now, wait till word starts to spread that a 12-1 LSU may win as many as ALL 7 of the computer polls! They'll really bitch then. Good/bad/indifferent media talk about LSU from December 8 through January 3 will be meaningless anyway since, last time I checked, good/bad/indifferent media coverage of LSU won't show up anywhere on the Superdome scoreboard the first Sunday night of 2004.
just in case they do...YOU USC FANS ARE ALL STUPID! there you go...direct all complaints to me. I will send ramah and TigerEducated to beat you up. I just thought it was funny as hell that this USC fan said our defense sucked against Ole Miss.....do you think they censor TV in Cali to show them what they want to see........?
30 more AP voters shift to LSU and it's all over for USC. BengalB had a good post about Advocate.com writer Rabalais still voting LSU #3. Trev & the heads say USC Defense is better than LSU ... what a real joke. One scenario that everyone here has overlooked ... OU loses to K-state ... where do the (63) AP votes for #1 go ... LSU will get more #2 votes ... surely, but USC will get most if not all of the #1 AP votes ----------------->Hurts LSU in the BCS Poll. K-State has a good chance to beat OU ... and it's gonna get wild
This would hurt LSU's chances significantly. Most of the voters would put USC #1, OU #2, & LSU #3. There goes our chance (high probability) of passing USC. I think we need to pull for OU. Any other thoughts?
Interesting thoughts I hadn't thought before. I guess we do need to hope OU wins. I, unlike ramah, do not think Kansas State has a good shot at beating OU.
No way an OU loss drops them from 1st in either AP or ESPN polls. Not gonna happen. OU loss would be to a good Kansas State team, and USC loss to Cal. Media loves OU too dang much anyway. No worries, Tiger fans, USC goes no further than #2 in the media polls. In fact, OU will remain #1 in all the computer polls as well, that's how far they are ahead. I did the research. Numbers don't lie.
