College Football Week 12, in which Les Miles reads Houston Nutt's will

The LSU-Arkansas game is a de facto national semifinal.

If LSU wins, they waltz, even if Georgia slips up on them in Atlanta.

If Arkansas wins, as has been said before, Alabama will leap to No. 1 in the BCS and get to play the SEC championship game based on the SEC tiebreaker, while the No. 2 Hogs sit in Fayetteville and get their beads ready.

If Arkansas loses to LSU and Georgia beats LSU, the Hogs get screwed out of the BCS. JerryWorld awaits.

 

I would love to see Houston play in the big game, but am thinking in line with most every one else, that have no shot.

If you think before the season that you have a shot, then do something like Boise did, and go to Georgia, play them wherever, then let the chips fall where they may. Unless you are a stud school in a stud conference, you can't get away with playing cupcakes all the time for your NC games.

 

If you want to say Houston doesn't deserve a shot because it's simply not good enough, fair enough. But to say Houston doesn't deserve a shot simply because of its schedule is absurd.

 

No. As has been pointed out before, a conference can put three teams in the BCS, if neither of the two in the title game won the conference. So if Georgia beats LSU, LSU could play Bama for the title, with Georgia left to play Houston in the Sugar Bowl. (Dammit.)

 

Nice turnaround by Mark Richt from where he was a few weeks ago.

 

Part of me thinks back to last year's Championship game between Oregon and Auburn. Everyone and their dog was expecting a 59-56 shootout. It wasn't.

If everyone and their dog is expecting a 6-3 snoozefest, I hope like hell it turns into 45-42..

 

Houston doesn't deserve a shot because it's simply not good enough.

And, sorry, but scheduling is part of this. In basketball, everyone's perfect beast, teams are left out of the NCAA Tournament for scheduling creampuffs. You have three months, in football, to prove that you belong. You need to make the most of it.

 

I think at least part of the reason Houston didn't "schedule up" this year was that they didn't know Case Keenum would be granted a sixth year until January, at which point the schedule had already been set. And without Keenum, they're not 11-0.

But I agree, they don't deserve a spot in the BCS title game based on who they've beaten (or will beat the next two weeks).

 

I'll take Tautology for $100, Alex.

What is your empirical evidence that Houston is not good enough?

 

But in basketball, the teams that are left out of the tournament because of their non-conference schedules are mediocre on the court, too. More often than not, they've got a 17-15 record, not 30-3.

 

Houston 38, UCLA 34
Houston 35, Louisiana Tech 34

Houston. Is. Not. Good. Enough.

Houston would get trounced in the BCS Championship game. It would be the embarrassment to end all embarrassments. It is not good enough. Period. End of story. Cute story. Not good enough.