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True but you cannot ascertain conference strength with the pitiful amount of high profile interleague games schedule that exists now. Impossible task don't you think?
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True but you cannot ascertain conference strength with the pitiful amount of high profile interleague games schedule that exists now. Impossible task don't you think?
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Go Bama!!!
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Anyhow, I think LSU will beat them again and win an undisputed NC.
man you must have watched a different game than I did!  one helluva an athletic interception. without that 1 play happening it's easy for me to envision exchanging Bama for the LSU talk going on currently I don't think this game is a gimmee by any stretch and while I'm not a fan of Saban, I think he's a damned good coach, there'll be a wrinkle or two I'm thinking past performance is no guarantee of future results, but it's the best we got. Bama is the only team I've seen hang with LSU for 4 quarters imo we're apt to see the best two teams in CF slug it out for the NC though I feel bad for OSU anyone ever thought about having a playoff system?  
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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For anybody that hasn't figured it out, THE strength of LSU is that they are as good at the end of the 4th Qtr as they were at the beginning of the 1st. It's like putting a 2-stroke up against a CAT diesel. They just keep digging.
OkieSt and LSU would have been a good watch. I have no doubt State would have scored points. Have no idea how they would fare by late 3d. I do know Alabama held up through 4, BUT had all the football they cared to play that day.
NC will be a different game than the first but still a toss up. Really torn as to whether or not Alabama came out ahead on this. Capt Ahab keeps coming to mind. Stanford sure would have been good to see.
One negative we may see next year; with all the talk about rankings based on score, you may not see many winning teams taking a knee late in the 4th inside the red. Those extra touchdowns start to take on a new value when the BCS points get as close as they were this year.
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I wonder what the line will be on that game.
LSU by 1.5?
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How much of a payout will the whole SEC conference get $$$ wise? Especially with two teams in the BCS championship. Seems like a substantial amount if I remember correctly. Those SEC presidents have got be licking their chops. Did politics push the matchup? I want LSU to win but would love to see Alabama win by a score of 9-6.  Wish OK State was going I think it would have been a better game.
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The SEC invests a lot in their players...expect a decent return on investment. Ask Cam Newton.
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If there is a bowl pool going on, would someone direct me in the right direction... Tks!
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If there is a bowl pool going on, would someone direct me in the right direction... Tks! We are having one like the regular season pool. I just hadn't had time to post it yet. I'm sending out a PM later today to the other pool members and if anyone else wants in, contact me.
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The SEC invests a lot in their players...expect a decent return on investment. Ask Cam Newton. LOL. I know it's a dead issue but it's still funny. Check this and make up your own mind. It's less than 2 minutes. Pay attention starting at 00:44 Cam Paid?? Listen to Cam, then U tell Me CLICK IT
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For anybody that hasn't figured it out, THE strength of LSU is that they are as good at the end of the 4th Qtr as they were at the beginning of the 1st. It's like putting a 2-stroke up against a CAT diesel. They just keep digging. Yep. They have the depth in their roster to last. It's usually sometime in the third Qtr that LSU starts to open up a lead over those teams good enough to give them some competition. Georgia was a good example of that. OkieSt and LSU would have been a good watch. I have no doubt State would have scored points. Have no idea how they would fare by late 3d. I do know Alabama held up through 4, BUT had all the football they cared to play that day. Having watched OSU this year, their defense is impressive in that they stay in the game. They don't have a dominant defense, and they will give up yards and points both. But they manage to disrupt play enough, and they are relentless on creating turnovers. Now whether they would stay in it for four Qtr's against LSU is a question though. But I haven't seen them give up or sucking wind in any of the games I watched where they had to stretch. Those four RB's of LSU spelling each other and Jefferson would certainly be a challenging task for them. One negative we may see next year; with all the talk about rankings based on score, you may not see many winning teams taking a knee late in the 4th inside the red. Those extra touchdowns start to take on a new value when the BCS points get as close as they were this year. I don't care personally, if a team runs up the score. If sports fans and players can't stand the thought of losing, they just need to get over it, and the losing team needs to learn from the schooling they get to improve from it.
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I don't care personally, if a team runs up the score. If sports fans and players can stand the thought of losing, they just need to get over it, and the losing team needs to learn from the schooling they get to improve from it.
An old Bobby Bowden paraphrase; "It's not our offense's job to hold the score down."
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My ideal solution would be to have a computer decide on the top 8 teams to set the tourney field. That would take conference strength out of the equation. Computers will only make ratings based on the human biases that they are programmed to observe.
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My ideal solution would be to have a computer decide on the top 8 teams to set the tourney field. That would take conference strength out of the equation. Computers will only make ratings based on the human biases that they are programmed to observe. Exactly. Win your conference, and get a shot at the title. Pretty simple; just like every other level of football and every other sport.
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Stanford finished ahead of Oregon by virtue of having one loss instead of two, and the BCS/NCAA being in love with Andrew Luck. Oregon has 1 Conference loss and the other loss was to LSU the number 1 ranked team in the country. Oregon also put up 50 on Stanford and spanked them good, just like they did last year. I don't see Stanford as having enough speed to stand the onslaught of the Cowboys
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My ideal solution would be to have a computer decide on the top 8 teams to set the tourney field. That would take conference strength out of the equation. Why would you want to take the "conferance strength" out of the equation? Don't you want to 2 best teams to play for the National Cahampionship?
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... For the assumptions that this game was based on to hold true the SEC has to come out and do their usual mopup of the competition as the bowl lineup plays itself out. Only this year I don't think they will. MOF I don't think they come close.
Well, the SEC is guaranteed that one of the top two teams in the conference will lose. You can go ahead and bank on that.
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