If USC destroys Michigan....

Trojan wrote:

..and Florida manhandles Ohi St...??? The media loves the Big10 and Notre Dame and always have. Those schools are always over rated. It should start with Wisconsin getting beat. LSU will crush the Fighting Irish, it could get ugly.

If Michigan loses and Florida wins, Florida wins the National Championship hands down. The SEC is so much tougher than the Panzie Ten it's not even funny.

Oh, and by the way, USC is not going to crush Michigan. Quite the opposite is more likely.

and what if OSU, Michigan, and Wisconsin all win their bowl games? I don't think anyone gets media love and tends to be overrated more so than Notre Dame.

the Michigan - University of Southern Cal-South Central will likely be the most competitive bowl game.

there is no chance the Buckeyes lose to Florida...I am looking for a 10 point spread to drop a was of cash on the buckeyes

John David Booty is gonna be on his back more than Mayeroff's g-friend.

USC lost 2 games already! They are DONE for the Championship.

Oregon St. & UCLA = Mediocre.

USC title hopes - not a chance

Clearly Wisconsin is the weaker of the three teams, having lost to Michigan, although it was at Michigan and tied well into the second half. Last year Wisconsin was criticized for getting into a Bowl over their head because they were a Big Ten team. They ended up killing Auburn and the game was not even as close as the final score, as Auburn scored right at the end.

Ohio State and Michigan are both good teams but neither has any certainty of winning against very good opponents. If All the Big Ten teams win will they be ranked 1,2,3? Has that ever happened before?

USC has done a lot better in bowl games since Carroll arrived. Michigan is something like 1-4 in their last 5. Given all that time off to prepare seems to favor the Trojans. I doubt Booty will be in many long drop back situations. I see the speed of USC being the big difference. Same with Florida over OSU. Too much team speed. The SEC is known for that.

Trojan wrote:

..and Florida manhandles Ohi St...??? The media loves the Big10 and Notre Dame and always have. Those schools are always over rated. It should start with Wisconsin getting beat. LSU will crush the Fighting Irish, it could get ugly.

Florida will not manhandle Ohio State. OSU will win.

Michigan will take USC apart.

Notre Dame will lose.

Wisconsin will lose.

Some have said OSU hasn't played anyone, well Wisconsin really hasn't played anyone.

Dude OSU is going to smoke Florida

When USC has done well this year Jarret has come up big. I just don't see Booty having enough time to let Jarret get down field. And once you take them out of the picture USC doesn't have any other big play makers. The UCLA game proved that.

UM's D is much better than the OSU game showed (and much better than UCLA's). I think UM will use the rose bowl (Jericho Mile style) to show everybody where they really should be.

sorry - jarrett.

dude..... wrote:

Dude OSU is going to smoke Florida

Agreed. I've already said by 11 points. It could even be a bigger win than that. Just too many offensive weapons for OSU, and Florida's offense isn't good enough to score tons of points on the Buckeye's defense.

Looking forward to a great beating by OSU.

Florida and USC played better opposition. They will be the faster teams. What are you looking at?

I think the bigger question is what if Michigan blows out USC and then Florida barely beats Ohio State?

That might make things really crazy in the AP poll but I think Florida will still take it though if this happens.

Not so fast my friend... wrote:

USC lost 2 games already! They are DONE for the Championship.

Oregon St. & UCLA = Mediocre.

USC title hopes - not a chance

By that logic, then Arkansas, Nebraska, and Notre Dame are worse than mediocre, since all were bitch-slapped by the Trojans.

The most likely scenario is that OSU exposes Florida for what they really are (because, after all, who has Florida really beaten?), USC-Michigan is really tight due to the game being in Southern California (I give USC the slight edge), and all of the other BCS games suck.

Lantaid wrote:

I think the bigger question is what if Michigan blows out USC and then Florida barely beats Ohio State?

That might make things really crazy in the AP poll but I think Florida will still take it though if this happens.

Who else would be #1 in your scenario other than Florida? It obviously wouldn't be Michigan, having loss to a team Florida beat. OSU? Boise State? I'm not sure where you are going.

Last year every one was talking about how darn fast Ted Ginn Jr. was, and now all of a sudden he has no speed?

Sagarin wrote:

because, after all, who has Florida really beaten?

LSU

Trojan wrote:

Florida and USC played better opposition. They will be the faster teams. What are you looking at?

Florida hasn't played anyone as good as Michigan whom OSU beat of course. Not sure why Big Ten teams always get labeled as having no speed, but the offense of OSU has a ton of speed. Florida has some speed on defense, but OSU's is better.

USC was exposed for what they are against UCLA -- a good team, but not a great team. Michigan will kill them.

Not exactly in the Big 10, but in 1971, three teams from the same conference ended up 1, 2, 3. It was Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Nebraska clobbered Alabama in their bowl, Oklahoma clobbered Auburn, and the pollsters gave Colorado #3 largely on virtue of having only two losses--to Nebraska and Oklahoma. The final poll, of course, came out in 1972.

26mi235 wrote:

Ohio State and Michigan are both good teams but neither has any certainty of winning against very good opponents. If All the Big Ten teams win will they be ranked 1,2,3? Has that ever happened before?