Is anyone else p*ssed about this USC stuff ruining our time?

Guys, your paranoia is howing again (not a pretty sight). I have seen few, if any, commentators state/write that LSU should not be in the playoff. The problem is not with LSU, but with OU. We were numner 2 in the human and computer polls, therefore we, for sure, belong there. OU losing did help us from the standpoint of moving up to # 2 in the human polls. If they had won, we would still be in the Sugar Bowl, but as the #3 team in the human polls, behind #2 USC, and, therefore, the object of the controversy. In short, there would have been controversy regardless of the OU/KSU game... its just who would have been the target, LSU or OU.

 

The difference is if Oklahoma wouldn't have lost, LSU would still be the consensus No. 1 by beating them. All other things being equal, LSU would have beaten undefeated, invincible Oklahoma while USC would have only beaten a two loss Michigan team.

 

Good point. I was writing concerning the hoopla going on now, as opposed to after the game if OU had not lost. But, I think if OU had not lost and we beat them, many pundits would then still have claimed that USC should be #1 since they were ranked #2 behind OU.

 

No way to know for sure, but since Oklahoma was built up to god like status, I think us beating them would warrant a jump to 1 over USC. But now it seems beating Oklahoma would be no more an accomplishment than USC beating Michigan.

 

To paraphrase the surgeon's comments to Regan... "Today we are all Wolverines." Goooooo Michigan!!!!!