College Football BCS Standings - Week 11

BCS Guru ^ | November 11, 2012 | Staff

[dfwgator]

It’s already a done deal that Dooley is gone.

[wrcase]

I see that. However, I have no faith in the integrity of the BCS or college football as a whole. The BCS can be manipulated any way they want with the computers. College football is the only sport whose post-season criteria mentions a specific team (Notre Dame). I suspect there is a reason for this and it has nothing to do with their independent status. The other independent teams are not granted the same status.

[MrChips]

11 national titles? LOL! In your dreams. Get a new accountant.

[MrChips]

Why do you hope you are wrong? Notre Dame and KSU have one common opponent: Oklahoma. KSU lucked out. Notre Dame destroyed them.

[MrChips]

I suspect there is a reason

Yes, it's called Notre Dame, with its 12 national titles (or 18, depending on how you count).

[GunRunner]

I've never rooted for the Aggie cult in my life, but I've never been so happy to see them beat the Tide. I would say that it knocks down SEC domination a tad, but since the Aggs are in the SEC now....

Oh well, at least this year the nation might actually have a "National Championship" game, instead of a reply of a divisional SEC game.

[Mike Darancette]

USC - 31-16 bowl record, 6 Heismans, 11 national championships

Don't forget OJ.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The Clemson-Carolina game should be something this year. Added to the normal intensity is Spurrier’s shot at the record books being in Clemson's hands. If they beat Wofford next week then the Gamecocks will come into Death Valley with Spurrier tied at 64 victories with Rex Enright for most coaching wins in the school's history. Spurrier is also currently tied with Lou Holtz for 3rd most coaching losses in Gamecock history at 37. Which one will he break? Tiger fans say it's the losses.

[wrcase]

It’s been about a 1/4 century since Notre Dame has won a national title. Anyway, my point is about specific teams being mentioned in post-season criteria. It’s the same if MLB had a post-season clause: If the Yankees finish over .500 they are automatically in the playoffs because they’ve won 27 championships. If the NFL was like college football they would not have allowed the Arizona Cardinals to have played in the Super Bowl against the Steelers because they played in a weak division and did not have a tradition of winning. I have nothing against any of the teams or players, I don’t really care who ends up winning the title, but the administration of college football is the worst of any organized sport. If Notre Dame ends up being the only undefeated team or one of two undefeated teams then they deserve to be in the national title game. If there are three undefeated teams then I would hope it would be by merit, not by the size of their fan base. If that’s the case then why not just determine playoffs by attendance numbers and television ratings.

[MrChips]

Oh, I agree that the system is a joke. Frankly, I like the old way, juts letting them mix it up in the bowls and then voting who is best. That way, several teacms get a chance, and Notre Dame did in 1977, ranked #5 and yet thrashing #1 ranked Texas by 4 touchdowns. They were voted #1.

But, my own point is that Notre Dame is deserving of the attention they get. With 11 or 12 or 18 national titles, depending on how one counts . . . and. as for you "1/4 century," we do not acknowledge the bogus 1993 itle of FSU. We know who won on the field. And the fact remains that they are ranked #3, now. If they can beat USC (a big if, to be sure), their head-to-head with Oklahoma compares to KSU's . . . and ND wins on that basis alone! Whether or not teams are at their best in any given year, it takes some courage for ND to schedule Michigan, Michigan State, Stanford, Miami, BYU, Southern Cal, Oklahoma . . . . besides which, teams are always "up" when they play Notre Dame. And, as a schoolteacher, I have absolutely no trouble being an academic snob and reminding you that at Notre Dame, there is no Underwater Basket-Weaving. Someone has to set the standard (ackowledgements to Standford). The "fan base" is there for a reason.

[Isabel C.]

Looks like Bama will play Georgia for the national championship

Only in your dreams.

[MHGinTN]

I'm 67. My blood runs Crimson. I still live in the Bear Bryant, Barry Krause era. But when Bama came into the 2012 Texas A&M game unprepared for the hurry up offense, they lost the shot at an other National Championship. Three crucail trunovers is too much to overcome, even with a great team like Bama, and to run one running play and three pass plays from the A&M seven in the last minute of that game is totally a fault of the coaching. Saban lost my respect right there!

Expect Auburn to utilize a hurry up and repeat a few of the plays A&M had success with.

[SeaHawkFan]

Notre Dame Bowl record from 1994 - present: 2-10

Wins were against Hawaii in the 2008 Hawaii Bowl and Miami in the 2010 Sun Bowl.

It’s not just that there are ND haters, it’s that ND has way under-performed in the post season for many, many years.

Since 1994, ND is 0-5 in BCS bowl games; and were dominated in every one of them with the exception 1995 Orange Bowl.

My favorite was when Oregon State destroyed ND 41-9; and it could have been much worse.

[Fledermaus]

It’s not bias, those 2 loss teams are still better than most of the nation.

[SeaHawkFan]

In the future, Texas A&M is going to dominate the SEC since all the top Texas high school players will be lining up to play for A&M.

[petitfour]

LOL

[lonestar]

Did they move the Cotton Bowl from the Cotton Bowl? ( serious)

[dfwgator]

Yep.

[petitfour]

I don’t expect Auburn will score. But it could happen. :-)

Hubby’s words were not nice after the game though he was a lot more calm than I expected.

[MHGinTN]

We can cite three critical turnovers, we can cite ill prepped defense, but in the end, when Bama needed to gain seven plus yards to score and take the lead in the last minute and had four downs to do it, Nick Saban made the most fundamental of errors.