It's (Un)Official: Oaklahoma-LSU for the Sugar Bowl

[Airhog]

Originally posted by JW
The actual argument should be whether OU or USC should play LSU. LSU ended up ranked #2 in the human polls and #2 in the BCS rankings. Using either system to pick the top two teams, LSU would be playing for the national championship. My own opinion is that LSU should be playing USC based on what transpired yesterday.

If the voters really felt that USC was a better team then OU and deserved to play in the title game, they mearly had to vote OU as the number #4 or #5 team in the nation. Clearly the majority of voters place OU at third knowing full well, that their vote decided who played for the national title this year.

[The_herd]

I think they voted OU 3rd because they thought they were the 3rd best team and voted USC #1 because they were the best team.

It doesn't make sense to vote a team #1 and not think they should be playing for the national championship.

[Marmel]

This is the greatest day in recent college football history. I don't feel one bit sorry for USC. They are part of the PAC10 and the PAC10 is one of the 6 conferences who designed the BCS and support it. They made their bed, now they have to lay in it. Or something like that.

[Leonidas]

And here I was all excited expecting to get an OSU Miami rematch and the Fiesta Bowl exercises this special economics clause and voila, now we have to face maybe the hottest team in the country, a team we have absolutely no history with or buzz associated with the matchup. A team OSU has as much interest in playing as they did NC State. And Miami wanted OSU a heck of a lot more than a rematch with a team they already whooped. Thanks again BCS. At least the Rose Bowl should be a great game.

[sterlingice]

Originally posted by Easy Mac
I think NYT just has a map of America hanging in the office, then throw darts and pick the colleges in the order it lands.

You're half right. The part you left off is that it's a projection that has the part of the country east of the Mississippi four times the size of the rest of the map.

SI

[Buccaneer]

Originally posted by The_herd
I think they voted OU 3rd because they thought they were the 3rd best team and voted USC #1 because they were the best team.

It doesn't make sense to vote a team #1 and not think they should be playing for the national championship.

I agree.

Marmel, that is two really sucky posts from you this weekend. That's par for me but you're batting a much higher percentage.

[Marmel]

Originally posted by Buccaneer
I agree.

Marmel, that is two really sucky posts from you this weekend. That's par for me but you're batting a much higher percentage.

How so? and what was the other?

[gstelmack]

Didn't this happen a few years ago when Nebraska got blown out by Colorado in the chamiponship game and still got to play for the national championship?

I just don't see how you can lose your conference and still make it to the title game...

[Gambit]

Originally posted by sterlingice
You're half right. The part you left off is that it's a projection that has the part of the country east of the Mississippi four times the size of the rest of the map.

SI

Totally true.

[sterlingice]

Originally posted by gstelmack
Didn't this happen a few years ago when Nebraska got blown out by Colorado in the chamiponship game and still got to play for the national championship?

I just don't see how you can lose your conference and still make it to the title game...

{sarcasm}Yeah, you'd think if it was that important they would have changed it then {/sarcasm}

SI

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by gstelmack
Didn't this happen a few years ago when Nebraska got blown out by Colorado in the chamiponship game and still got to play for the national championship?

I just don't see how you can lose your conference and still make it to the title game...

Actually, Colorado beat 11-0 Nebraska in the final game of the regular season. Colorado then beat Texas in the Big 12 championship game. Your last point is still valid, it just happened in a slightly different way.