College Football Week 13, in which LSU and Arkansas put a boot in your ...

It seems like the pendulum will swing that way eventually.

 

I was hoping to see the BCS computers blow up after an Arkansas win. Oh well.
Colorado-Utah is a pretty decent game. Neither team looks very good.

 

Competetive, yes. Boy does the Pac-12 ever need to get Southern Cal eligible.

 

They wouldn't blow up, though. They'd just continue to list the top three teams as Arkansas, Alabama and LSU in some order.

 

2-10 team bringing the lumber.

 

Based on the grand total of 90 seconds I've seen of them all year, Colorado is the best 2-10 team I've ever seen.

 

It also doesn't hurt when the opposing team's kicker stinks up the field. I just wish the Utah kicker had been this bad last week in Pullman.

 

Assuming they win out and nothing too crazy happens, they'd have wins against 4 or 5 top 10 teams in the final poll:

Oregon, Alabama, Arkansas (assume they don't fall out of top 10), and Georgia (assume a bowl win puts GA back in top 10 in final poll) plus a bowl win against either top 10 Alabama or top 10 OK State.

That's pretty impressive.

The only thing comperable I could find was Notre Dame in 1988. In 1988, Notre Dame had four wins against teams in the final top 10 - Miami (2) Michigan (4), West Virginia (5), USC (7).

ND's schedule dropped off pretty hard after those four, however. Penn State, Pitt and Michigan State were the next best three wins and all three of those teams were barely mediocre.

So if LSU wins out, I think they have a pretty good claim to having one of the toughest roads to the title. Other people might have a better perspective on who else could match LSU's top heavy schedule.

 

West Virginia could make a BCS bowl, and Auburn could finish 8-5 and is the defending national champion. Florida and Mississippi State are pretty strong eighth- and ninth-best wins, too.

 

That's a good point about the depth of LSU's schedule. I don't, however, think that this LSU team is the "best ever" just because it might have the toughest schedule ever. 2001 Miami and 1995 Nebraska both crush this LSU team, and that's just off the top of my head.

 

No team in college football history could "crush" this LSU team. The defense is simply too good. But I do agree that 2001 Miami and 1995 Nebraska were probably better teams. You could add in 2005 Texas, among recent teams.

I would say 2009 Alabama was better, too, but I have an elephant in that fight. To me, that team had the best top-two victories in recent history. The Crimson Tide ended its regular season by beating No. 1 Florida (with Tim Tebow) 32-13 in the SEC title game, inherited the top ranking, then clobbered No. 2 Texas 37-21 in the BCS title game. The 2009 Tide also beat Virginia Tech, which finished the season ranked 10th, in the Georgia Dome to open the season.

But LSU this season has not needed any moments like Terrence Cody's field-goal block vs. Tennessee (which finished 7-6) to remain unbeaten. Props to LSU: It's blown out everyone but the No. 2 team in the country. That 2001 Miami team won 26-24 at then-No. 14 Virginia Tech to close its season. In 2005, Texas' only competitive game before that amazing Rose Bowl win was a 25-22 win at No. 4 Ohio State. My pick for greatest team ever has long been 1995 Nebraska, though. Their closest game was a 35-24 win against Washington State, which was really an easier win that that final margin shows.

LSU still does have two tough-as-hell games left. Georgia's got all kinds of momentum, and a rematch with Alabama could easily turn the other way, particularly given Nick Saban's vengeance streak.