Chris Fowler had a great ending to the game. "Mike Stoops and Arizona are the winners tonight, while Oregon limps home with a crippling loss." No pun intended. Sets up another domino in the BCS Perfect Storm theory where every team has at least 1 or 2 losses and it turns into a huge cluster**** pushing us ever closer to a playoff. OU, Kansas, West Virginia, Missouri, and Arizona State better be on upset alert this weekend and not get caught looking ahead.
Watching Kansas go to the title game would be hilarious. They've beaten 2 teams with winning records: Central Michigan (6-4) and Texas A&M (6-5). They're a gutsy team, no doubt, but if they played anyone else in the top-10, they would get pasted.
The Mizzou game should be interesting. I think Mizzou's better on offense, but KU's defense looks strong. But, ya, I guess beating 2 top-10 teams at the end of the season gives them some cred. Either way, good news for Sooner423 is that I don't think either of those teams has the athletes to run with OU in the Big XII Championship.
Defensively, Mizzou would struggle. But on offense, are you kidding? Missouri is loaded with NFL athletes (Coffman, Rucker, Daniel, Maclin, Franklin are all first day picks, with the first two and Maclin potential first rounders) at almost every position. They certainly didn't have a problem from an athletic perspective running with OU in Norman. They led in the fourth quarter, had more total yards, and only lost the game on a botched reverse where the WR didn't know he was getting the ball (returned for a TD) and a forced pick inside the 20. The Mizzou offense is the best among all the national title contenders, and they absolutely have the athletes to score a ton of points on whoever they play.
Probably although if Georgia can somehow make it to the SEC Championship Game (only way they can is to beat Kentucky and have Tennessee lose to either Vandy or Kentucky), LSU might have themselves a game. If it is LSU and Tennessee in the SEC Championship Game, LSU will win in a cakewalk.
Found this on Hornfans.com - someone basically outlined how it's still quite possible for every team but Hawaii to have at least 2 losses going into the final BCS Standings. 1. LSU 11-2: loses to Georgia (SEC Title Game) 2. Oregon 10-2: lost to Arizona 3. Kansas 11-2: loses to Mizzou, loses to OU 4. OU 11-2: loses at Texas Tech/Okie State, beats Kansas (Big 12 Champs) 5. Missouri 10-2: loses at K-State, beats Kansas 6. West Virginia 10-2: loses to UConn (or at Cincinnati) 7. Ohio State 10-2: loses at Michigan 8. Arizona State 10-2: Loses to USC 9. Georgia 11-2: Wins out (SEC Champs) 10. Virginia Tech 11-2: Wins out (ACC Champs) 11. USC 11-2: Wins out 12. Florida 9-3: Wins out 13. Texas 10-2: Wins out 16. Hawaii: Wins out In this scenario, Hawaii is undefeated and no other team has less than two losses. Individually, every game in this scenario is pretty realistic. Here are the key games broken out by week: 11/15/07 - Oregon loses at Arizona 11/17/07 - Oklahoma loses at Texas Tech - Missouri loses at K-State - West Virginia loses at Cincinnati - Ohio State loses at Michigan 11/24/07 - Kansas loses to Missouri - Arizona State loses to USC 12/1/07 - LSU loses to Georgia - Kansas loses to Oklahoma FYI - Remaining Schedules: Undefeated Teams (BCS / Sagarin Ranking): 3. Kansas - Iowa State (UR-90), Missouri (9), Big-12 OU (4) 16. Hawaii - at Nevada (UR-105), Boise State (20), Washington (UR-53) 1-Loss teams: 1. LSU - at Mississippi (UR-86), Arkansas (UR-33), SEC Georgia (9) 2. Oregon - at Arizona (UR-65), at UCLA (UR-38), Oregon State (UR-32) 4. Oklahoma - at Texas Tech (UR-41), Oklahoma State (UR-39), Big-12 Kansas (3) or Missouri (9) 5. Missouri - at Kansas State (UR-48), at Kansas (3), Big-12 OU (4) 6. West Virginia - at Cincinnati (22), UConn (24), Pittsburgh (UR-78) 7. Ohio State - at Michigan (21) 8. Arizona State - USC (11), Arizona (UR-65) 18. Boise State - Idaho (162), at Hawaii (16) 2-Loss teams: 9. Georgia - Kentucky (23), at Georgia Tech (UR-43), SEC LSU (1) 10. Virginia Tech - Miami (UR-71), at Virginia (14), ACC BC (17) 11. USC - at California (31), at Arizona State (8), UCLA (UR-38) 13. Texas - at Texas A&M (UR-50) 14. Virginia - Virginia Tech (10), ACC BC (17) 15. Clemson - Boston College (17), at South Carolina (UR-30), ACC VT (10) 17. Boston College - at Clemson (15), Miami (UR-71), ACC VT / Virginia 24. Connecticut - Syracuse (UR-110), at West Virginia (6)
Nice. Only one problem is that whoever came up with all that forgot that Tennessee has to lose to either Vanderbilt (not likely) or Kentucky (more likely but still a longshot) for Georgia to get to Atlanta. But other than that technicality, I wouldn't be surprised if all those things happen!
Bear down Arizona! Bear down Red and Blue! Go CATS GO! they have 1 upset in them a year. now they just need to start beating the crap teams
