I'm not sure what that means. One of the conferences bet the other head to head in the bowl games and the loser of those games is a whopping 1-6 in bowl games this year!you forgot the Big12 too.
I'm not sure what that means. One of the conferences bet the other head to head in the bowl games and the loser of those games is a whopping 1-6 in bowl games this year!
One thing to remember about the B10 in bowls is that they usually get by far the toughest matchups of all of the conferences.
The matchups are tough relative to their regular season schedule, sure. The B10 is not a good football conference. Defend them as much as you'd like, but they continue to fail when given the opportunity on the big stage.
with one exception
The B10 is not a good football conference. Defend them as much as you'd like, but they continue to fail when given the opportunity on the big stage.
Well, if the Little 10 is so bad, what does that say about the Small 12? I think a couple favorable spots and 2 RIDICULOUS roughing the passer penalties kept the Shorthorns, who have been crying for a month now that they should be playing for the MNC (the team I watched last night would lose by DDs to Florida or USC at even strength) could barely get by a much maligned tOSU team starting a true frosh at QB and missing their All-World RB for most of the 2H.
Also, lets not look past the other "good" teams in the B12's bowl performances. Mizzou, TT, and Okie Lite all looked like dogshit in their bowls, going 1-2 (lucky to not be 0-3). Sure the Little 10 sucks, but we knew that already, didn't we? This thread should be talking about the biggest fraud conference this year, and that is the B12.
Everybody get off your high horses. The only conference that has any sort of bragging rights is the SEC and mayyyybe the Pac-10 a little bit. B12, L10, ACC, Big Least, etc, shut your pie holes. You have shown more than a few chinks in your armor this bowl season.
He's obviously going to have to progress as a passer but I agree somewhat.OSU went to the Fiesta Bowl with a true frosh QB who is one of the top can't miss prospects over the last 5 years.
He's going to be a good one for them before it's all said and done.
Agree 100%OSU went to the Fiesta Bowl with a true frosh QB who is one of the top can't miss prospects over the last 5 years.
He's going to be a good one for them before it's all said and done.
freakin Utah
Freakin Utah? I saw Utah play a couple nites ago and I saw Texas last nite...Utah is better. Funny you didn't mention the MWC in your analysis, but then, that is part of the overall problem, isn't it? People not even acknowledging that a team from a non-BCS conference may be deserving of the #1 ranking.
You lost me when you said maybe the Pac 10. Did you just start watching football in December this year?
Your analysis of Texas has been so off the last couple years on here and covers that I just skimmed over what you wrote about them.
I think it's a little ironic that the best thing that has happened lately to a Ohio school is a Pittsburgh talentlmfao at a Miami fan berating something as down.
Go back and look at my threads from this season and find a game that I bet on that Texas played in that I lost. ........ Find any yet? Only 1, eh? When I bet on them to beat Texas Tech and they choked up and lost? Yeah, I'm way off on calling Texas games, you got me.
How am I off? Didn't YOU say at the beginning of the year that YOU wouldn't be talking up Texas this season? Wasn't that you? And now you're trying to convince me that they belong on the same field as USC and Florida (what I wrote that you "skimmed" over)? Please tell everyone that you think that team we all watched last night beats either of those teams right now. I'd love to hear this.
Have you seen Utah play all year? What do you think? I bet I saw more MWC football this year than you've seen in your lifetime.
Your arguments basically hold no water with me 'Horn; that's because you're basically saying non-bcs teams have no claim to the mnc under this system (and i agree, they don't, I just don't think it's right). You're basically basing your entire argument on what you think would happen if Utah was in this or that conference...you have no earthly idea what would happen if utah had played 'bama in the middle of oct or nov...it's like me saying if OU and UT played on a neutral field right now, since OU would be favored (and they would), they deserve to go to mnc game since they would likely win.
Congratulations on nailing the BCS games, though I'm not sure what that has to do with this discussion.
while i agree that bama had to have had the motivation disadvantage, i doubt that it can be decided that they win that matchup in october..if utah barely scraped by i might agree, but they dominated them for the better part of the game. and they dominated that michigan game too despite what the score showed in the big house the first game of the year (before they and their fans had realized they sucked so bad). i don't know what they would have done with florida's schedule, but florida didn't play many good offenses at all so i doubt they would do as bad as many people seem to think. and i think they could probably take care of ole miss at home. to say they aren't as good because they beat new mexico by only 3? it's make-up of the conference and the history between the teams that led to that score, not talent or how good or bad the teams were. sec teams that are vastly superior to their opponent scrape by each other all the time and get a pass. to answer your last question...does it look like a body of work of the #1 team in the nation? ABSOLUTELY YES. 0 losses. a bcs win over a team from the best conference that was #1 until the sec championship. a conference with a great out of conference schedule. 6 wins over bowl teams. no other team can say that, no other team deserves it more.
even though the score was somewhat lopsided, i think tcu played oklahoma better than any team outside of texas. under 2 ypc rushing for oklahoma, so yes, oklahoma beat them, but i think tcu deserved to be on the same field with them. and they beat oklahoma a few years back.
and it's not like they're sneaking up on these teams. with the out of conference and bowl performance this year and the building of the conference over the last several years, i think it's crazy that not only utah wouldn't get a share, but that the mwc gets as little respect as they do. because espn doesn't have a relationship with the mwc, most college football fans have honestly seen the mwc for the first time this bowl season, which is a shame considering all the good football matchups the conference has brought this year. in fact, this year i'd rather watch that conference than the shitty big10 or a 75-73 big12 game.
while i agree that bama had to have had the motivation disadvantage, i doubt that it can be decided that they win that matchup in october..if utah barely scraped by i might agree, but they dominated them for the better part of the game. and they dominated that michigan game too despite what the score showed in the big house the first game of the year (before they and their fans had realized they sucked so bad). i don't know what they would have done with florida's schedule, but florida didn't play many good offenses at all so i doubt they would do as bad as many people seem to think. and i think they could probably take care of ole miss at home. to say they aren't as good because they beat new mexico by only 3? it's make-up of the conference and the history between the teams that led to that score, not talent or how good or bad the teams were. sec teams that are vastly superior to their opponent scrape by each other all the time and get a pass. to answer your last question...does it look like a body of work of the #1 team in the nation? ABSOLUTELY YES. 0 losses. a bcs win over a team from the best conference that was #1 until the sec championship. a conference with a great out of conference schedule. 6 wins over bowl teams. no other team can say that, no other team deserves it more.
even though the score was somewhat lopsided, i think tcu played oklahoma better than any team outside of texas. under 2 ypc rushing for oklahoma, so yes, oklahoma beat them, but i think tcu deserved to be on the same field with them. and they beat oklahoma a few years back.
and it's not like they're sneaking up on these teams. with the out of conference and bowl performance this year and the building of the conference over the last several years, i think it's crazy that not only utah wouldn't get a share, but that the mwc gets as little respect as they do. because espn doesn't have a relationship with the mwc, most college football fans have honestly seen the mwc for the first time this bowl season, which is a shame considering all the good football matchups the conference has brought this year. in fact, this year i'd rather watch that conference than the shitty big10 or a 75-73 big12 game.
The matchups are tough relative to their regular season schedule, sure. The B10 is not a good football conference. Defend them as much as you'd like, but they continue to fail when given the opportunity on the big stage.
I honestly didn't see how you bet this year on them so if you've changed your tune then I apologize but your last post seemed to be about how your thoughts have been about them for what 4-5 years now? Ya know the Mccoy will never amount to anything posts since his freshman year? Shorthorns, chokers, etc...
I absolutely think Florida would beat Texas and USC, and my posts says that.
I also don't base my opinions on one game of a USC victory over PSU or them embarrassing an even crappier Virginia squad, which you thought the game would be close so obviously you didn't think USC was going to be much either at the beginning of the year like I did Texas right?
The problem with the scheduling is simple MONEY
Major teams like Okie, Texas, Michigan, O-State, Fla and the rest is that they want a 3-1 split to schedule the smaller teams. 3 home games vs 1 road game. The smaller schools FAU, Coastal Carolina, Pacific (when they had a team) Temple and the rest of their ilk jump at that chance. They have an opportunity to fill their stadium. Hell last year Temple hosted PSU, sold out the stadium at double, triple and in some cases 8 times normal face value for their other home games. MONEY does and will always drive this sport.
If it were academics, the southern schools might as well close up shop.
Don't read too much into my namecalling of teams, I do it to pretty much every school. Oklahomo, Okie Lite, Chokies, Shorthorns, Suckeyes, etc. Nothing in particular against any of the teams, I just enjoy their insulting nicknames better.
I liked Texas against their schedule all year. Only bet against them when they played Baylor and I got the backdoor there. I think 5-1 on the year or so. A nice team that really should have gotten through the B12 after their upset of Homo. Fact of the matter is, I don't have anything against any of these teams. I bet on what teams I think will win me money, and it'll shock you to hear that Texas (betting on and against them) has been good to me over the years. What I get upset about is when you guys come on here and tell me one second that betting on UT +7 against Homo is a risky proposition because there is little chance that they win that game (this led me to believe that you all thought the Sooners were at least 7 points or more better than UT at the time), watch them pull off a huge win in a back and forth game, and then next thing you know they are the best team in the country according to you and RJ. They beat clearly overrated Mizzou and Okie Lite at home in their next couple and then go to Lubbock and get dominated for a half and give up a late TD to lose to what I thought was a pretender TT squad. Fine, shit happens, but don't try to convince me that UT is the best team in the land after seeing how this conference has done in the bowl games. If things play out the way everyone thinks they will (Florida in a romp over Homo), how can you make the argument that the Big 12 even deserved REPRESENTATION in the MNC game? Take a hard look at how the top teams in the conference did in their bowl games and tell me that the Big 12 having 5 teams in the top 25 to end the season is justified.
I fully admit to ignoring the "Pete Carroll with a month to prepare" factor in the UVa game at the beginnning of the year. Also notice that I didn't promote a play on the Hoos, just that laying 20 in C'ville (not sure if that has ever happened) is not desirable. USC showed that it was for them, as UVa was probably one of the worst organized teams in the country at that time. If that game was played again in the middle of the season (after dust had settled on UVa squad), I do not think it would have been the embarassment that it turned out to be. That's all hearsay though and doesn't really matter. USC with a month to prepare continues to be the best team year in and year out. It took a mercurial effort from your man crush a couple years back to barely get the W vs. them in a bowl game, and even that almost didn't happen (still haven't forgotten that USC DB dropping that VY INT that hit him right in the hands when they were up 12 in the 4Q and trying to put the game away). In your analysis of this year's team you are looking too much into the loss at Oregon St. (and ignoring that the Beavers are a pretty good squad when healthy) and not enough at the talent on that Trojan team and how they get up for big games. In my opinion, I think they sleepwalk a bit when they go on the road in the Pac-10 because Petey knows that they most likely won't be on national TV and thus it's hard to get these guys who are at USC to play in big games fired up for what seem to be minor ones. Clearly, though, when they play any OOC teams, you get the best of that squad, so instead of overanalyzing how they play @ Arizona or Oregon St, try looking at how they play @ Nebraska or @ Arkansas or @ UVa or in any bowl game since Petey has been there. That's why I think they need to be a part of any game any year that decides who the MNC is. They are a fucking damn good team, dude.
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