Realistically, what's the highest USF can finish?

If a BCS conference champion goes undefeated, it can't be any worse than third in the country by definition. There won't be more than three undefeated teams from BCS conferences. If South Florida is undefeated alone and doesn't go to the final game, let's not forget the Big East is the most litigious conference in college sports.

 

I'm sure it's already been said, but:

The way the system is set up, if USF is one of only two unbeatens (or the only one), it should play for the national title as an undefeated team from one of the six BCS conferences.

No debate, no bellyaching. An undefeated season by any BCS school is enough for consideration, and if there are two or fewer unbeatens, the BCS would once again show how flawed it is if such a team were kept out.

 

Except that its apologists would claim that the system worked -- in the loosest sense of the word. If, say, unbeaten LSU were matched up in the final BCS standings with one-loss Southern Cal or a two-loss team, "It worked!" they'd shriek. "It gave us two teams to play in the title game without bias." That's how they justified taking FSU over Miami in 2000, or taking LSU and Oklahoma over SC in '03, or SC-Oklahoma and not Auburn in '05, etc.

Well, duh. By that standard it's always going to "work" because it's always going to spit out two teams. Whether it's LSU vs. South Florida, Ohio State vs. South Carolina, UConn vs. UAB -- as long as it produces a matchup of two teams, any teams, the apologists can claim it "worked."

Only way it doesn't is if the BCS computers determine that the title game should match LSU against a box of dildos.

 

Wow. I didn't realize he was an SEC snob.

 

So where, Mr. Carville, does this leave defending national champ Florida?

 

LSU fan.

 

I don't know. The South Carolina-Georgia border on I-85 between Atlanta and Greenville has that 5-mile stretch of nothing but those red and yellow signs that all-but tell you this place gives you a happy ending.

 

Shhh....that kills the logic.

Besides anyone who really followed the SEC knows that Mississippi State isn't the worst team in the conference. Right state, wrong team.

 

And LSU graduate.

 

Well. THAT raises the bar.

 

South Florida won't be in the Gator Bowl with one loss. Forget it. Their fans wouldn't stay 2-3 nights in hotels and spend money in the city, which is big with the Gator Bowl people. Plus, the Gator Bowl has to go Big 12 in two of the next three years (per their current contract) and wants to match Texas (with at least a 8-4 record) against Clemson, Virginia Tech or FSU (whoever doesn't get to the ACC title game).

 

He's an idiot on so many levels that it's hard to know where to start.