November 26, 2007
Who's No. 1--College Football's Craziest Season
From Brad Edwards at ESPN:
Perhaps for the first time all season, the national championship race can be explained very simply.If No. 1 Missouri (vs. Oklahoma) and No. 2 West Virginia (vs. Pittsburgh) both win on Saturday, they will play each other for the BCS title. If one of them loses, No. 3 Ohio State will slide into the national championship game. If Missouri and West Virginia both lose, a two-loss team will probably meet the Buckeyes in New Orleans for all the marbles.
Fellas, what's going on?
This weekend I will be the biggest fans of Missouri and West Virginia because I have NO interest in seeing Ohio State (from their pathetically weak conference) squeak their way a national championship game.
This ought to be a new NCAA rule: No team can go the national championship in college football unless they play at least one SEC school to get there. Haha!
Posted by anthony at November 26, 2007 08:57 AM | TrackBackHere here. Though I would say no team can be a true national champion unless they are from the SEC.
Posted by: davidm. at November 26, 2007 09:37 AMdude, i agree! as a uga fan i either want both Mizzou AND WVU to get beat or both to win. (however, I don't think pollsters will let a team that didn't win the conference play in the championship - the almighty USC will probably jump uga). I think any of the two loss teams pictured above would have won the BIGjoke 10. speculation I know, but give us a playoff and the speculation goes away.
Posted by: Jeremy at November 26, 2007 12:45 PMAs much as I hate Mizzou (worst fans in the Big 12 outside the state of Colorado), I'm pulling for them to beat OU b/c a WVU/Mizzou national championship game would be frickin' amazing. (Esp. if WV won)
The thought of either of those teams against OSU... blech. And if both of them lose and we get LSU or Va Tech against OSU... Yuck. Jim Tressel and Frank Beamer may be good coaches but they officially take the fun out of watching college football. They're like the Detroit Pistons or San Antonio Spurs of the NCAA.
Posted by: Jake Meador at November 26, 2007 01:26 PM"from their pathetically weak conference"
As an Illinois grad, Anthony you're wrong for this comment. It was totally not necessary for you to state your case concerning Ohio State. My boy Juice is going to teach you and others some things about UofI and the Big Ten next season. Just wait!
Where in fact is Clemson in this conversation anyway?
Posted by: Damien TEDS at November 26, 2007 05:37 PMDamien, if you can show me one sound argument in your statement that rebuts Anthonys assessment that ur conference is weak then please show.
ILL may be great but that says nothing about your conference being strong (or weak).
Anth was saying it w/o making the case b/c there is no expert or fan (outside of Big 10 fanatics) that think the Big 10 is a strong conference. Put OSU, MI, PSU or the great ILL in the Big East, Pac 10 or ACC (never mind the SEC) and you all would be middle of the road teams.
Posted by: STork at November 26, 2007 09:39 PMSweet. I didn't know I wrote for ESPN... crazy.
Go Mizzou! What a season...
Posted by: Brad at November 27, 2007 12:51 PM