Ohio State vs Kansas for BCS

LSU or VT or possibly USC should get bumped up.

LSU whipped Tech, but they also barely won 3-4 games and Tech is ahead in the standings now.

Gotta go to a playoff though, no top 10 team deserves to be in the championship game over anyone else.

Neither Kansas or Georgia will be in Baton Rouge, principally due to their failure to play in, let alone win their conference championship game.

If the ESPN pundits are to be believed, it'll be OSU-LSU.

Yeah, but Kansas didn't even win its division in the Big 12 either. I could see LSU jumping into the national title game because they won their conference championship. Winning your conference seems to be a must to play in the BCS title game, but Nebraska in 2001 did it after they got throttled by Colorado in the Big 12 championship game. Who knows. This is the craziest season of college football ever. Number's 1 and 2 lost on consecutive weeks.

It will be whoever is #1 and #2. Georgia is a very far down #4 before today:

Mizzou: .978

WVU: .971

OSU: .919

Georgia: .827

Kansas: .792

VT: .781

LSU: .774

WVU with the loss today is still the BEAST champion because they beat UCONN (both are tied in-conference). VT or LSU could possibly vault ahead and land at #2. Mizzou might not drop down past #2 since they lost to a top 10 team....but then they would be in the national title game w/o winning their conference title game. This season is screwed. Anyone in the top 10 could win the championship game.

Alan

go with the only undefeated team Hawaii

Paul Osborn wrote:

If the ESPN pundits are to be believed, it'll be OSU-LSU.

And Les Miles would be taking the Michigan job as well!

joes wrote:

go with the only undefeated team Hawaii

They won't be undefeated in a couple of more hours.

a;sdkljf wrote:

Nebraska in 2001 did it after they got throttled by Colorado in the Big 12 championship game.

Couldn't have happened, they are both in the Big 12 North. That was the year that Colorado destroyed Nebraska in Boulder, winning the Big 12 North, and then Colorado thumped Texas in the Big 12 championship game. Colorado played Oregon in a BCS game and got beat and Nebraska played Miami in the BCS championship game and got creamed. It should have been Oregon or Colorado getting beat by Miami in place of Nebraska. What worked against Colorado was that they had 2 losses on the season and Nebraska had only one. Not sure what was working against Oregon, maybe strength of schedule.

not for long wrote:

joes wrote:

go with the only undefeated team Hawaii

They won't be undefeated in a couple of more hours.

I wish that was true.

It should be USC playing for it all, no one is playing better football than they are right now with the team healthy for the first time since week 2.

fjfj wrote:

not for long wrote:

They won't be undefeated in a couple of more hours.

I wish that was true.

It should be USC playing for it all, no one is playing better football than they are right now with the team healthy for the first time since week 2.

lol. Did your mommy make your lunchy for you today?

and she put it your Cinderella lunch box, didn't she? when are you going back to Disney World...?

oh yeah pigs fly too don't they.

The clear thing at this point is that only Ohio State has earned a spot in that title game.

West Virginia lost to Pitt?! Holy crap. I warned last week that since everyone was automatically putting WVU in that title game that the WVU players might believe that and then lose. Oh, also, I said WVU was nothing without Pat White. Interesting how the two games they lost he was out for a good portion, so those of you who told me I don't know college football can go jump in a lake.

Missouri proved to be a fraud -- sorry Sagarin, but they got THUMPED last night.

So, who deserves to play the best team in the country (that team would be the Buckeyes)? Seems completely unfair to put Georgia in there since they didn't even qualify to play the SEC championship game. Kansas might deserve a spot -- they do only have one loss after all.

I agree that it will likely be LSU though. If LSU gets in, then that's two years in a row that that extra championship game has allowed an SEC to make the championship game, so you SEC fans should really quit complaining about it.

So, as a Buckeye fan, what should I hope for? Definitely LSU. While LSU might be the best of the choices, so they have a better chance of beating Ohio State than anyone else, any fan should want their team to have the opportunity to play the team that would give the greatest respectability if they won. If Ohio State beat Kansas, there would be no respect. If Ohio State beats LSU, then everyone would have to shut their pie hole.

So, while the Buckeyes risk another loss to an SEC team, I still say the challenge is a welcome one. It's the only way they can achieve respect this year.

The fact that West Virginia lost to Pitt though is HILARIOUS! Can you even be any closer to making your first title game? A back seat regionally to the Buckeyes once again.

Ohio State would run over Vtech flags.

LSU will crush Ohio State. you don't seem so smart thur.

enjoy your christmas.

Billy Fred-Bob wrote:

Ohio State would run over Vtech flags.

LSU will crush Ohio State. you don't seem so smart thur.

enjoy your christmas.

Can't say for sure either of those things. With no clearly dominant team this year, it seems anyone in the title game has a legimate shot. I know that your opinion is the majority that LSU is that much better than OSU, so that is why I'd prefer they get the shot against them. A win against LSU is really the only way the Buckeyes could silence everyone -- well, there are still those USC fans who think USC deserves a shot...not with a loss to Stanford you don't.

Oh, and to the Cal fans, how hilarious is it that you also got beat by Stanford? Man, remember when the Cal fans said Cal was the best team in the country?

There are 4-5 teams at LEAST that would run OSU off the field. They will be embarassed in the title game unless they play LSU, in which case its a toss up since the coaching match up would be so insanely skewed in OSU's favor.

Mtn Dew wrote:

There are 4-5 teams at LEAST that would run OSU off the field. They will be embarassed in the title game unless they play LSU, in which case its a toss up since the coaching match up would be so insanely skewed in OSU's favor.

Ah, too bad that 3-4 of those 4-5 teams won't get the chance. Gotta win your games on the field to prove you are worthy. Only one will have done enough to prove worthiness, and if they beat the top-ranked Buckeyes, then they deserve the crown. If not, OSU gets to declare themselves the best team in the nation.

Third championship game in 6 years. Tressel IS the best coach in the country.

And, don't tell me OSU schedules weak opponents either. They did away-home with Texas and Miami in recent years and they play USC next year. Not the Buckeyes fault that Washington was no good this year.

The way the season played out the old system would have set up a number of intriguing match-ups. Then,we'd be arguing about it for a while. More bowl games would be worth watching because of their potential impact on the national championship. Now, agree with it or not, there is a "National Championship" game.

fjfj wrote:

I wish that was true.

It should be USC playing for it all, no one is playing better football than they are right now with the team healthy for the first time since week 2.

Haha, beating an average UCLA at home in a less than convincing fashion is not playing great football.

USC, haha.

First of all, I wholeheartedly agreed that WVU had no business being ranked where they were, and I might have been the only one more vociferous about it than even you. Secondly, Mizzou was beaten, plain and simple, but OU was the only team that could contain them this year and OU WAS my preseason pick (I was a year early since they have nothing but freshman at key positions, BUT they will definitely be my pick next year, as they are one of the very best RIGHT NOW). Doesn't mean Missouri was a fraud at all. Missouri hung 37 on Illinois and had a commanding lead until Chase Daniel (sustained a concussion in that game).

Secondly, you say that it's unfair to put Georgia in the title game because they didn't play in the conference championship game. That's funny, because OSU didn't play in a conference champsionship game either, now did they? KU does not deserve anything. They were beaten soundly a mere two weeks ago by Mizzou. They do not also get rewarded for not playing a conference championship game. Now, you are crediting the extra SEC conference championship game for helping a team to get in two years in a row, which is hypocritical. It cuts both ways. An extra conference championship game is what prevented Mizzou from getting in.

LSU does deserve to be in. They have two triple OT losses in conference, that, as Les Miles stated accurately, would have been ties in the old days, and LSU would have been in anyway. As he put it, LSU was undefeated in regulation time. Now, I do agree that everyone needs to shutup if OSU beats a presumed LSU in the conference championship. However, Flagpole, I really should go and dig up that email from about a week ago where you were ridiculing LSU fans, saying what a joke LSU was and how the SEC wasn't going to have a team in the championship game this year.

And now it looks like you're going to be eating some serious crow. Because, what if that AVERAGE LSU team beats down your Buckeyes as I think they will? What will that say about the Big Ten? I'll bet you that at the end of the year, the Sagarin rankings will be LSU, USC, Georgia (depends on whether or not Georgia is pitted against USC in the Rose Bowl) very similar to last year, and we will be left wanting for one more game (LSU-USC was SUPPOSED to be the matchup from day one). After all, OSU has probably done the least of any other team in terms of quality wins and playing a strong schedule to deserve a shot.

The computers have KU #3, which I can't understand, Va Tech #5, and LSU #6. But, then again, they have OU #1.