Granted no losses would be best, my friend asked me a question to which I really couldn't decide an answer. Would you rather lose to ASU on Doucet's play and beat Tenn in overtime or be right where we are? I thought by losing to a lesser (lesser than Tenn, anyway) team in ASU would be worse, but beating a Tenn team in OT would also be nice. What do y'all think?
I'll take the OT loss to a top 20 BCS team. Also because it would have been a miserable drive home from Tempe, Arizona if we'd lost that game.
I agree... looking at the overall picture I would would take a loss to Tenn before ASU. But from an SEC perspective, the Tenn loss obviously hurts us worse.
It hurts us worse only if Alabama doesn't win out and we lose to them. With the way things are currently, it doesn't matter. The AU game doesn't factor in because it is a foregone conclusion that we are going to beat the living crap out of them. I hope that AU wins all of their games after us and that Alabama wins all of theirs. A loss by either team, besides to us, doesn't help us at all if we don't beat them.
I didn't think this deserved a new thread, so I'll hijack my own. Will LSU wear home purple in TS this year? I figure it will be against North Texas or App St if they decide to.
I think it's pretty much a wash, or at least too close to really make a definitive call. If you reverse the games ASU would only have 2 losses and TN would have 3 at this point. What really matters is not now anyway, but how the whole season projects out. Which team will be ranked higher at the end of the season matters more. In general if I have to lose a game, I would prefer it to be OOC for obvious reasons. However, if you are assuming that LSU wins out, then a TN loss is irrelevant with regards to the SEC.
Unless I'm reading your comments incorrectly, I think AU winning out after playing LSU and Alabama winning out after playing LSU is, well, impossible...unless the Iron Bowl gets cancelled this season or something.
didnt bother to read all the posts so forgive me if this has been posted- i'd take an asu loss. the loss to ut is in conference (hurts our chances of getting to Atl) and it was later in the year. and we still dont know who's the better team. and, yes, i realize that the ASU game was on the road and sooner after katrina the wave
I'll take the loss to Arizona and the undefeated SEC record. We have no margin for error right now if we want to win the West.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that Keller is hurt. If so, and the loss to Oregon is the start of a late-season fall, then by far the Tennessee loss is "better". Better to lose to a potentially 9-2 Tenn that surges late in the year as they did in 2003 than to a run of the mill 7-4 (or worse) Pac-10 team.
