----Man, am I bad luck or what? After a
strong start things started going pretty poorly and they just keep getting worse and worse.
Kansas lost, Houston lost, Virginia Tech lost, Texas lost, Nebraska won, Iowa won, Michigan lost, West Virginia got clobbered, and now Kansas State's quarterback is being questioned on sexual assault charges while
violating team curfew.
Are my cursing powers enough to vex the Oklahoma Sooners? Time will tell.
----The announcers have been saying after USC's victory over Michigan that they have guaranteed themselves half the national title. Throughout the game, they were calling it the "human championship."
Well, not really because Michigan didn't have a shot at the championship regardless. Michigan's a great team, but if they had won than the winner of the LSU/OU game would have the undisputed title.
On top of that, though, whatever you think about who should have been playing in the Sugar Bowl, it seems to me that the victor of that game just played a much tougher opponent than Michigan and, BCS statistics aside, that ought to be recognized in the polls. USC may have been screwed out of the game, but that doesn't mean they should necessarily recieve the title as a consolation prize.
On the other hand, Washington State (USC's toughest opponent) defeated Texas (OU's toughest opponent). If the BCS numbers were to be updated, it might be enough to toggle with the top three's BCS numbers and bring OU down a little. Probably not enough and BCS numbers are rather irrelevent at this point. On the other hand, that might create an opening just large enough to keep the winner of the LSU-OU game from recieving the writer's half of the national title (OU because they didn't beat a 10-2 team anymore and LSU cause the team they beat doesn't look as good anymore).
----Miami and Florida State are playing a nailbiter right now. Dunno if I'm going to be able to stay awake for it all, though. Great game, but when two teams I usually root against play each other, I have no clue who to root for. I seem to find myself rooting for Florida State for some reason. I bet on Miami, so they'll probably pull it off.
Someone on the Sooner boards made this point I hadn't seen made anywhere else: The BCS ranking that determines the top two teams who play for the BCS Championship is determined by a formula that takes into account ALL of the various rankings, including the AP and coaches polls.
So who really cares how sits atop any of the individual polls at the end? The Championship Game is what matters.
Otherwise, every single ranking service that goes into the BCS calculation ought to have a trophy at the end for ITS #1 team. And we already know that the winner of the BCS title game would finish atop more of those polls than not.
On the other hand, one might argue that the BCS formulas don't take the polls into account enough when both of them say one thing and the BCS says another. Maybe or maybe not, though I remain staunchly in the "don't ignore the rules everyone agreed on cause you don't like the results" camp...
but unfortunately ignoring the rules seems to be exactly what the press has in mind. They seem to have already crowned USC the "real" national champs and the announcers actually seemed to downplay the importance of a game (LSU and OU) THEIR network is carrying.
My opinions on how the formulas should be compiled has been written and should be posted as soon as the bowls are over... you know, at the end of the season when rules are SUPPOSED to be changed.
NEVER bet on Free Shoes U against Miami in a close game. We own them.
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