Clair, say you had a best friend and you didn't like his girl, so you told him about it, and then qualified it by saying "I am not saying I agree with what I said, I am just telling you what people outside your inner circle of friends say. " What the hell? Reality is that, of the BCS National Champions, by far, the weakest, least dominant claim was that of the 2003 LSU Tigers. It was the only time in the 10 years of the BCS era (1998-2007) that the AP Poll did not agree that winner of the Coaches Trophy was the national champs. In response to that BCS disaster, the BCS formula was re-written. Now, LSU has our first undisputed, unanimous national championship as the sole big, prized dominant champ since the Billy Cannon years. You not enjoying that makes me wonder if you have something against Les or if you are still in love with Saban... or if you are just simply out of touch with reality. As for the whole thing about 2007 Arkansas or 2007 Kentucky being "average teams at best" -- and the whole thing about 2007 South Carolina being "a team that we should have beat anyway" -- all of that is like having a crush on your best friend's hot girlfriend and lying to him by trying to make him believe that her beauty is "average at best." Anybody who didn't think 2007 Arkansas, 2007 Kentucky, or 2007 South Carolina were well-above-average NCAA teams very capable of beating 2007 LSU has no idea what they are talking about when it comes to college football.
The point I was arguing was this one: That just means that OU sucked. USC should have been playing Auburn.
The espys are just like every other award show on TV....It's just a few folks and their opinions on what they like. Do you listen to TV,radio,and movie review pukes? I sure as hell don't. Everyone likes different things and the espys are the same garbage. As it was said before, why are we even watching ESPN? There's no game on.
ESPN hates the SOUTH in general... Just another media organization where political views have spilled over into sports.
South Carolina lost at home to Vandy, and didn't even get into any of the 6 gazillion Bowl games last year. Not real sure they qualify as "well above average"
its hard to define. you could argue they were good because of their ranking. off of a recent W over UGA i think they were top 10
2007 South Carolina spent 8 consecutive weeks of the 2007 season ranked in the AP Top 25, two consecutive weeks ranked in the AP Top 10 (#7 and #6). They beat Georgia, Miss State, and Kentucky -- three teams that went to and won bowl their games. They also only lost by 3 pts to Tenn and 2 pts to Clemson, two other teams that went to bowl games (Tenn won theirs, Clemson barely lost to Auburn by 3 pts). If you look at the recruiting classes that made up 2007 South Carolina from 5th year seniors down to freshman (2003-2007 classes), you'd see that Rivals and Scout both unanimously agreed that all of five those recruiting classes were in the top 35 (three were in the top 25, two were in the top 15, and one was in the top 10).
64 out of 120 teams went to Bowl games last year. South Carolina wasn't one of them. Spin like you want, but that puts them in the bottom half of D-1.
South Carolina would have beaten half of those teams. Of those 64 teams, South Carolina actually had to play 8 of them during the 12 game regular season. And South Carolina didn't play the chump teams like those Big East, MAC, WAC, Sun Belt, MWC, and C-USA (Central Michigan, Bowling Green, Ball State, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Air Force, East Carolina, Tulsa, Memphis, Southern Mississippi, Houston, etc) that got to go to bowl games, and South Carolina didn't play the lower-rung Pac-10, Big Ten, Big 12 or ACC teams that got to go to bowl games. Instead, the 8 bowl teams that South Carolina played were 7 SEC teams (Florida, Georgia, Tenn, LSU, Ark, Kentucky, MSU) and Clemson. Those 7 SEC teams went 5-2 in their bowl games (FL and Ark lost) and Clemson barely lost their bowl game by a few points to another SEC team, Auburn. Of those 8 bowl teams South Carolina had to play, South Carolina finished 3-5 against them (beating Georgia, Kentucky, MSU and barely losing to Tenn and Clemson).
