AP Preseason Poll Out

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  1. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    But I'll bet you look at the polls every week when they come out. Nobody is sure just what criteria the committee will follow to choose the four playoff teams but I wouldn't be surprised to see the top four teams in the polls to be the chosen ones.
     
  2. CajunlostinCali

    CajunlostinCali Booger Eatin Moron

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    Maybe, maybe not. Poll criteria could be very different than the committee criteria. Teams like Louisville, Boise St. and the likes have survived poll positions as long as they win. Seems they find a way to lose but the point remains, play a bunch of dead bodies and going undefeated is not a recipe for playoff consideration. They never got true consideration under the BCS model. All they ever got was media attention, an atta boy and a maybe next year mention for winning games. If a team without a heartbeat who only beat 1 top 25 team gets a nod to play in the final 4, odds are they were placed there to give their opponents a stronger run to the ship. I think a decision like that would come with a pretty bad smell attached.
     
  3. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Can you say Ohio State? They only have one top 25 team on their schedule but if they are undefeated they will be in the playoffs.
     
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    CajunlostinCali Booger Eatin Moron

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    Eggzackley who I am talking about. What makes their shit schedule any different than the smurfs or Louisville? Rewarding poor scheduling is not and should not be what this playoff scheme is about otherwise, we need to schedule teams like Tulane every week or join the Sunbelt just to make it easier. Hell, I hope they are top 4 in the polls and get left out just to expose the farce their schedule defines. Even the gumps deserve more credibility in scheduling.
     
  5. $TigerFan$

    $TigerFan$ Father of CajinKid

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    Didn't USC have to vacate that game anyway? If so that makes us lone champions. As far as I'm concerned the crystal was the trophy for NC and it's in Red Stick!!!
     
  6. lsu_dane

    lsu_dane Founding Member

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    Trust me, I won't. It's really easy. Win the SEC and you get in.
     
  7. furduknfish

    furduknfish #ohnowesuckagain

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    You sound like an emotionally invested journalist.
     
  8. COTiger

    COTiger 2010 Bowl Pick 'Em Champ

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    I don't care what Herbstreit says, the Bucktootheyes willl have two losses
     
  9. LSUTiga

    LSUTiga TF Pubic Relations

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    I haven't mentioned the '03 situation at all. In fact I specifically omitted it in the LIST of controversies it created.



    No. I don't really care what coaches think either.


    Uh, the BCS bowl is the one that gave us the Championship game.
     
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  10. COTiger

    COTiger 2010 Bowl Pick 'Em Champ

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    Do you care what I think? I'm not a coach, nor am I a fat sportswriter. :D
     
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