See all the responses in the thread you started about this very thing...as well as the one from last night about this very same thing.:thumb:
I am convinced Missouri loses to OU. LeSean McCoy, RB for Pitt, could hold LSU title chances. He has 1180 yards on the season, a 5.0 ypc average and 14 touchdowns on the season. WVU is not terribly great on D, so if he can run successfully and control clock for Pitt, anything is possible. WVU has had turnover problems on more than 1 occasion. It will probably take another 5 or 6 turnover game in order for Pitt to pull off the upset. Anything is possible. The game in Atlanta at 4 PM EST may mean a whole lot more than a trip to the Sugar Bowl.
Everyone talks about wanting a playoff system. But man doesn't the BCS make things interesting. We now watch games we normally wouldn't care about. Hoping for crazy things to happen.
it'd be the same regardless... if there were a 4 team playoff, then fans of the #5 team would be cheering for Missou and WVU to lose so they could get in, etc... so it's the same regardless.. someone will always be unhappy.
What bothers me is the way the voters -- and we're talking about the Harris voters and the friggen self-serving coaches -- dumped on LSU this week. I keep hearing this "they lost to an unranked Arkansas team" stuff. I hope the Hogs go to a bowl game and McFadden gets 400 yds against their league's No. 2 team. Clearly, we need some help. We need: Oklahoma to beat Missouri (they've done it already this season, and they really have never had trouble defensing the spread) Pitt to upset West Virginia (yikes! is this even possible?) LSU to impressively defeat Tennessee. (not another overtime game, please) That would knock out Nos. 1 and 2. Ohio State probably would move to No. 1, which is wrong-wrong-wrong, but whatcha gonna do? And LSU, with its (at least) double-digit victory over the Vols, would leapfrog over an overranked Kansas team (Missouri kicked their butts, & they haven't played ANYbody), Va Tech and Georgia. It's all doable. But pray heavily.
islstl, or someone else, if pitt doesn't upset wva and we go to the sugar bowl, who would we likely play? hawaii?
In this entire scenario, the only problem that I see is the fact the tOSU will move into the title game. I know that they're ranked 3 in the BCS and will move up if any of the teams above lose but, that is the Real problem with the system. Ohio State has played the biggest joke of a schedule in college football. OOC was pathetic (at least they played Texas last year). If you look at the current BCS rankings, they have beat 1 team on that list (Wisconsin). And they are ranked 18th. The only other team that they played was Illinios and they lost. LSU, on the other hand has played 3 teams (6th, 10th, and 24th) in the current standings. I don't even need to elaborate on what the opponets were ranked at the time each team played their's. That's the problem. Not LSU or Vtech getting in. It's the fact that we'll get to see another pathetic NCCG where tOSU is on the short end of the stick. Maybe America will wake up after this all plays out.
America (the teaming masses) has been awake for quite some time. Its the "powers that be" (BCS conference committee) that needs the wake up call before they have a revolt on their hands.
It means more than the Sugar Bowl, regardless of what Mizzou, WVU, or VT do this weekend. The SEC championship! Sugar Bowl would be lagniappe. Of course, I'll take that lightning strike if it happens....but I wouldn't bet on WVU dropping this one. :geaux:
I am with you all the way on this. If LSU wins 51-3 this Saturday let's say and proves that last week was an obvious fluke, then LSU should be ranked ahead of Ohio State and I hope the voters do the right thing. I think most people buy into the fact that Ohio State could very well show their fraudulent selves once again in another NC. If LSU wins close, then forget it, it's just another lucky win in most people's eyes. So let's go kick some Tennessee butt and make them at least ponder the situation. In the immortal words of Bonnie Raitt, let's give them something to talk about.
