Writers want a rematch, Coaches do not.

Actually, he played. Nine carries for 42 yards, two receptions for minus-6 yards.

KU was the hottest team going into last year's tournament, winning 15 of 17 ... then lost first round. George Mason wasn't exactly hot going into the tournament, but got hot out of nowhere, which doesn't fit the Arkansas profile here.

USC would have beaten Notre Dame (we'll see soon enough), Arkansas (SEC West champion), Nebraska (Big 12 North champion), Cal (8-3) and Oregon (7-4) on a schedule with only two teams that have losing records. But that's irrelevant given that you're using who they beat as an argument ... when USC won by 36 at Arkansas. Can't have it both ways.

I won't argue that Arkansas is hot right now. But they also struggled much of the way to win at Mississippi State, which still has only three wins -- the first two came against UAB and Jacksonville State. So there's that, too.

 

And has been said on other threads, the Big Ten (and the SEC) need to add a 9th conference game instead of a non-league cupcake.

 

Instead of looking at facts and deciding who should play in the national title game, it seems like a lot of people here are deciding who they want to play in the national title game and building an argument from there...

That's the problem. Depending on who your horse is, you can construct a reasonable argument in that team's favor.

My point of view, stated before, was that if the BCS was put in place to match up the top two teams in the country for the championship game, and Michigan is seen as the No. 2 team in the country, then it should be Michigan and Ohio St., regardless of all the other ideological crap.

Those who feel that the yearly 'debate' is good for college football mystify me. Personally, I'd rather have a debate every year on who the 16th and final team should be in a playoff instead of arguing who should be in the championship game.

Let's decide on the field who should be in the championship game. This system leaves too many variables up in the air, as proven by this thread, to consistently and accurately pick the top two teams for the title game.

I will stop rambling now...

 

Or they could play the Big East teams and the Boise States and all those other teams that are ascared to play them and avoiding them now.

 

The SEC has a conference championship game, for god's sakes.

 

SEC played Boise State last year.

Won 48-13.

Played Cal this year.

Won 35-18.

Played Fresno State a couple of years ago.

Won 24-3.

Outside of perhaps USC, there isn't a team in the Pacific or Mountain time zones that the SEC has any hesitation about playing, and beating soundly.

And everybody sooooo high on a Michigan-Ohio State rematch . . . let's play it next week, or never. Winner goes to the title game. Loser doesn't. Ohio State's 100% chance of making it just dropped to 50%. Welcome to our world.

 

I didn't realize that THE SEC was a scheduling consortium. I thought each school handled that individually.

Tennessee has balls. I'll give 'em that. Others? Not so much.

 

USC beat Arkansas by in 36 in Arkansas after replacing:

First Round:

Bush
Leinart

Second Round:

White
Lutui
Justice

Third Round:

Rucker
Byrd

Fourth Round:

Bing

First start for Booty, 3/5 of the OL was new. The shit about "when" USC beat Arkansas is a joke. It was in the 2006 season. Arkansas had all the motivation in the world after getting 70 put on them last year. I guess you can call it a moral victory since SC was "held" to 50.

 

Georgia didn't exactly beat Colorado "soundly" in a game that, in most years, would have been a great one. This year not so much.

LSU didn't exactly beat Oregon State "soundly" in overtime to open the 2004 season.

You make it sound like the SEC crushes anyone who gets in the way. That's hardly the case.

 

Because the one conference allows for a second chance; the other doesn't, unless BCS computers say otherwise.

 

There are some on this board who would say the SEC has a lot of cupcakes, so teams would trade a non-conference cupcake for a conference cupcake. And the point would be?

 

In the SEC, a second chance is called a conference championship game.

It's not called a national championship game.

In the SEC, you have to WIN your conference to have ANY shot at EVER advancing to the national title game. There is no "fast-track" to the title game for losers.

If you want Michigan to have the same "second chance" as an SEC school, then have them play OSU for the conference title . . . THEN hope the BCS computers allow them to advance to the national title game (which the computers did NOT allow Auburn to do in 2004 and won't allow Florida or Arkansas to do in 2006).