Ohio state doesn't matter, they cant play in the postseason anyway, and the AP is pointless, BCS is all that matters.
I doubt that "perfect storm" would be enough. We still have two losses, and K-St. and ND would each have only one under that scenario. I don't see a two-loss team getting in over any big-name one-loss team. IMO, the best we can hope for is the SEC championship and/or a BCS bowl.
It's easy for anyone to think that when the conference has all the championships. When it doesn't, it's another ACC and left trying to catch up with other conferences in TV marketing rights, recruiting battles across the board, fund raising, national exposure, and much more.
This. They only REAL reason LSU got into the title game in '07 was because we won the toughest conference in America. If the rest of the conference were "0-12", we don't get our second crystal in the trophy case. This is also the only reason Bama played last year over Okie light. Playing in the strongest conference comes with its benefits, so you WANT your conference to be the best. This isn't the NFL where only your record matters. It's a glorified beauty pageant. And our CONFERENCE turns heads, which results in individual schools getting the attention neccessary to get the benefit of the doubt when needed.
Yes, I always laugh when LSU fans say they hate the BCS. It's laughable because the BCS has been VERY kind to LSU. Now, if I was an AU fan (as if), I might be angrier at the BCS.
For the record, though, stace, I hate the BCS. I feel like, even given the breaks that we've been given by them, we'd have more championships if we were allowed to hash it out on the field. I believe we'd have at least made it TO the dance in '06, '07, '10, '11, and this year, had there been playoffs. We caught fire in the second half of those seasons, and were HOT just in time for a (hypothetical) playoff. Except maybe last year, when we pretty much dominated all season.
But you're arguing for a playoff, which is only "sort of" going to happen in 2014. When I think of liking the BCS, it's more about hating the true popularity contest that existed before the BCS when there was never a focus on pairing #1 and #2 in a bowl game. In those scenarios, if #1 won the bowl game, they were the national champs, and #2 had zero to say about it. Our two national titles came from being the lower-ranked team. Without the BCS, we'd have a whole bunch of nothing to show for it.
Well yeah, but that's like saying a beat-up '91 Civic with 300,000 miles and no A/C is better than having no car.
I guess that would be better than no car, but the lack of A/C is a deal breaker for me. About college football, I'm just commenting on the system we currently have, as opposed to the system we used to have. I'll not comment on a system that may very well never happen (we'll have to see where the 4-team playoff leads us. Back to your car analogy, I can dream of driving a Ferrari, but at the same time, what I drive isn't bad. Sort of like the BCS hasn't been bad for LSU--although it isn't anyone's ideal situation.
