Top 25 vote shakeup....

indeed, but nobody's calling arkansas the conference's best team

 

I'll believe Cal is the Pac-10's best team if they can beat USC. Until then, it's still the Trojans.

 

At least SOMEBODY agrees with me.

 

Me either, but I love Hole. Live Through This was one of my favorite albums, and got me single-handedly through the worst break-up of my life in high school.

Oh yeah, USC sucks.

 

Last I checked, USC beat Arkansas (5-1), Nebraska (6-1), Washington (4-3), Washington State (4-3) and Arizona State (3-3). The lone victory against a team that's not at least .500 came against Arizona (3-4).

Yeah, they suck.

 

Those wins don't count. [/Eastcoastmediabias]

 

SEC, on the whole, did very well against the Pac-10 this year. Those games had one thing in common, I believe. They were all in SEC stdiums.

Next year, or whenever the other shoe falls and the SEC teams come west, the results should be quite different, except that USC will keep kicking SEC butt.

Both leagues are good.

JD: Doing well, thanks for asking.

 

i agree with most of whitlock's poll, but i'd have usc no. 2. as for the other polls, how can auburn be ranked ahead of arkansas? get off the drugs.

 

You don't like mulligans?

Fine.

Than you would HATE a playoff system, which basically rewards a team that lost in the regular season by allowing it to be "one of the elite 16" and beat the team it couldn't beat the first time.

Tennessee-Florida.

Florida-Auburn.

Tennessee-Cal.

Texas-Ohio State.

Michigan-Notre Dame.

Rematches all possible within a playoff system.

 

If there was a playoff, the conference championship games would go away pronto.

And if there was a playoff, I imagine teams would be seeded much like the NCAA basektball tournament, in which schools from the same conference are kept from playing each other as long as possible. And if two teams from the same conference played each other in the semis or finals, then so be it.

But we don't have a playoff yet. And until we do, I prefer the Pac-10 round-robin system, which makes a championship game unnecessary, and doesn't give someone a second chance to accomplish what it couldn't do the first time.

 

Sounds fine . . . if you have 10 teams in your conference.

Most have 12 . . . or 16 . . . one even has 11.

 

You're absolutely right. Conferences have to choose what is right for them. SEC, ACC, Big 12, they want a larger conference and a championship game. Fine. Pac-10, Big Ten, Big East, not. Fine also.

It just irritates me when the conferences with championship games preach that their team is tougher because it had to win one to reach the BCS, or that it's unfair that the team that proved it was the best team in the league over 12 weeks of the regular season got knocked off in its conference championship game.

Hey, your own conference made that choice. You take the money, sometimes you pay the price.