110,000 fans rooting AGAINST Texas (tOSU) > half of 100,000 fans rooting against Texas (rose bowl.) period.
as great as it is to be #1...texas could easily go back to #2 or #3 next week because the system is a big flaming piece of crap. when a bunch of nerds with calculators, sitting around their parent's basement crunching numbers into complicated formulas, decides who plays for a national championship, you know you have an awful system.
USC- ND, ASU, Oregon Texas - Ohio State......and???? Texas tech has been exposed sorry, cupcake. Vtech - Dont they play all their games on Thursdays? In reality none of the teams have played hard schedules... It seems like USC has a decent one though.. But they pad their schedules with bye weeks and creme puffs. Plus ASU isnt looking good anymore but still better than Oklahoma. I don't agree with Texas #1 at all.
How can you say Tech is exposed and then list a 3-4 ASU team and an Oregon team with the same record at Tech?
Texas is the best team in the country....and will continue to prove it..... This is a special year... HOOK EM ! DD
TT was raised up to #10 based on what? wins against 1-AA teams, Kansas and Nebraska. That's it. What a joke ASU was a good team when USC went to Tempe, and since that tough loss ASU has tanked and has played with an injured QB. Unlike TT ASU has played qaulity opponents. But they did lose to Stanford.. And even so, this just proves how incompitent the BSC SOS system is. It only considers opponents W-L record, thus, according to it, Texas has a harder schedule than LSU, which is just not true. USC beat a tough UO team at Oregon, tough ASU team at ASU (not so tough now), and a tough ND team at ND. UT beat OSU at OSU and nothing else.
But Texas' schedule is harder so far. Texas opponents are 24-13 and their Opp-Opp are 159-106 LSU opponents are 18-15 and their Opp-Opp are 126-93 USC opponents are 19-21 and their Opp-Opp are 160-120 Texas has beat #14, #16, #24, #26, #33, #108, #110 USC has beat #12, #15, #30, #76, #92, #103, #109 LSU has beat #18, #22, #30, #56, #77 and lost to #25
Tech's ranking is a joke.. UT is benefiting from that for sure. If Ohio State stumbles in its last few games they very well might drop out of the top 25.. Could UT end up being the only team to ever play in a national championship without having beaten a top 25 team at the end of the year? USC, assuming they go undefeated, will have beaten four top 25 teams in Oregon (who unfortunately lost their QB last week), UCLA, Cal, and Notre Dame. ASU isn't chopped liver either. And UCLA and Notre Dame will probably end up top 10.. I just don't see how UT's schedule is anywhere near as hard as USC's.. without even considering USC's hardest games were on the road, too.
If Ohio State's tight end could catch or their field goal kicker makes that 40-yarder, we wouldn't even be having this debate. And Ohio State isn't even that good.
You can't just look at opponents records, that's what the stupid BSC is here for. There is no way you could convince me that the Big12 is a better conference than the SEC, even the Pac-10 for that matter.
If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle. As it stands, she doesn't, he didn't, neither did he, and we are.
Would you be suprised if the Big 12 does have higher average ranking than both the PAC-10 and the SEC. Average Rank Big-10 - 35.0 ACC - 37.8 Big-12 - 39.2 SEC - 42.5 PAC-10 - 46.1
Yep. If Reggie Bush had not committed a penalty and had the referees called the penaltly, UT would be #1 in the human polls as well.
True, but they are not equal. One had USC getting the benefit of a missed call, not to mention a generous spot on a fumble that sailed backwards out of bounds to stop the clock and the other had UT scrambling to win a game without those officials helping out. Apples to apples Tex...come on now !! DD
It was KANSAS for crying out loud! KANSAS!! That is not the same as Notre Dame in South Bend. UT did have the benefit of a bogus pass interference call, so the officials were involved.
Comon' now, that doesn't tell me anything. The SEC has been beating up on each other, and the Pac-10 as well to a little bit of a lesser extent. Yet and still the SEC has the #4 ,#5 and now #8 team. (How does UCLA jump us?) A 3-3 Tennessee team could handily beat a 6-1 Texas Tech team.
If you follow the conversation, my comment was an extension of my poking fun at T_J's hypotheticals. I do not discount USC's victory at Notre Dame at all. I was simply stating a hypothetical.
