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Buckeyhes and BCS: Third Times the Harm
ESPN ^ | 1.8.08 | By Pat Forde

Posted on 01/08/2008 7:50:51 AM PST by meandog

NEW ORLEANS -- With the 2007 football season complete, here's the game plan for 2008:

Jim Tressel's Ohio State team has lost back-to-back games for the BCS national championship.

We need border patrols along Interstate 10, from Jacksonville to Pensacola. A Coast Guard blockade at Biscayne Bay. And the FAA should redirect all inbound flights to South Florida from Ohio.

If you see a silver helmet and a sweater vest coming, contact authorities.

Because next year's BCS National Championship Game will be played in Miami, and the Ohio State Buckeyes aren't invited. Especially if the Southeastern Conference champion is invited.

If you've ever seen lions maul a water buffalo, you've seen the last two title games. You've seen a fierce pair of SEC teams -- Florida last year, LSU this year -- blow the vulnerable Buckeyes back to the Bratwurst Belt by a combined 41 points. You've seen the best of one league flex, and the best of an inferior league collapse

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To: edcoil; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

I so wanted UGA to play the Calif USC. It would have done my heart good to see GA smoke USC’s butts.

Then the SEC would have blistered all corners of the rest of the NCAA.


41 posted on 01/08/2008 8:13:22 AM PST by SeeRushToldU_So (Tebow for Heisman! The SEC rules college football! Go Dawgs!)
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To: Philly Nomad

Heck, honey, I can’t talk - I went to Cal.
I’m starting to think the only way we’ll ever go to the Rose Bowl is to charter a bus and buy tickets....


42 posted on 01/08/2008 8:13:45 AM PST by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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To: stainlessbanner

Man, this Gator was rootin’ for dem coonasses!


43 posted on 01/08/2008 8:14:23 AM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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To: Armando Guerra

maybe they will pre-season rank us like 50th so by the end of the year we can work up to a Hawaii type ranking. My goal is back to the Rose Bowl :-). Easier to beat up on the Pac-10 haha.


44 posted on 01/08/2008 8:14:42 AM PST by Rezod21
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To: Ingtar
I beg to differ. I believe USC would not even have done as well as OSU last night. LSU is not Stanford or Illinois.

The loss to Stanford was a coaching problem, allowing your Quarterback to continue to play with a broken hand, and calling pass plays. As brilliant a Carroll is, he must have taken stupid pills that morning.

45 posted on 01/08/2008 8:15:08 AM PST by D Rider
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To: stainlessbanner
I am sick and tired of hearing about OSU and how the sun shines out of their butt, so I am happy that they lost for once....

Then again I am a die hard University of Wisconsin-Badger fan and we couldn't win our bowl game ;-{

46 posted on 01/08/2008 8:15:21 AM PST by Poetgal26 (God bless the US Military and our allies!)
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To: Banjoguy

Exactly, the SEC and Big 12 have a competitive level that can’t be touched by the Big-10 or the Pac-10. The ACC is on its way up. But for now, the SEC owns college football.


47 posted on 01/08/2008 8:16:11 AM PST by ChinaThreat (s)
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To: edcoil
Yeah,unhuh! My high school team would beat them all. Nothing wrong with having a fantasy. USC would have lost at least three games if they played in the SEC.
48 posted on 01/08/2008 8:16:15 AM PST by gunnedah
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To: Right Cal Gal
What IS it with the BCS poobahs that they simple HAVE to have Ohio State in the championship game if at all possible?

No, the rule is to have Notre Dame if at all possible. Given their recent record, they have to settle for the best available midwest team.

Of course, Ohio State is the only northern team to have won a BCS championship. (4 SEC wins, 2 (former) Southwest Conference wins, 2 (current) ACC wins, 1 PAC 10, and Ohio State)

Or, to put it another way, Confederates 8, Yankees 2.

49 posted on 01/08/2008 8:16:15 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Armando Guerra
I almost fell out of my chair when the announcers were saying that this was a young Ohio State team and could be back in the title game next year.

They are dead wrong. No matter what the record is for the Buckeyes next year, the BCS selection committee would have to have their collective heads examined to consider them for a title game slot. They're going to avoid them like the plague.

50 posted on 01/08/2008 8:16:15 AM PST by chimera
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To: misterrob
If USC had not lost their QB for a few games they would have run the table.

And yet these same backup QB's that were INCAPABLE of beating 41 point underdog Stanford AT HOME, are now being hyped as the very reason USC should be considered UNBEATABLE and ranked #1 to start next season.

51 posted on 01/08/2008 8:16:35 AM PST by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
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To: meandog

They also lost the College Cup Championship to Wake Forest.


52 posted on 01/08/2008 8:17:14 AM PST by Perdogg (Fred Thompson - John Bolton 2008)
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To: Republic Rocker
4 team playoff is simple to do.

Maybe in theory. In reality, it's not simple at all because the Big Ten and the Pac-10 won't give up their Rose Bowl ties. And a playoff won't get off the ground without the Big Ten and the Pac-10.

So what's your argument to the Big Ten and the Pac-10 as to why they should abandon the Rose Bowl for a playoff system?

53 posted on 01/08/2008 8:17:15 AM PST by Publius Valerius
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To: SeeRushToldU_So

“It would have done my heart good to see GA smoke USC’s butts.”

I hope your hearts fine since that, would never happen.


54 posted on 01/08/2008 8:17:40 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: SeeRushToldU_So

Georgia vs. USC would have produced a better game. Can’t have anything overshadow the BCS, can we?


55 posted on 01/08/2008 8:18:29 AM PST by PAR35
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To: gunnedah
Just jealous South Carolina will never play the Rose Bowl?
56 posted on 01/08/2008 8:19:37 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Republic Rocker
4 team playoff

If I remember correctly, there are 6 BCS conferences. I would like to see them require all the BCS conferences to have a conference championship the way the SEC and other conferences do. Then you can have the BCS conference champions along with 2 wild card teams and play an 8 team playoff. You would have a true champion and also have the opportunity for Cinderella team to win it.

57 posted on 01/08/2008 8:19:55 AM PST by Armando Guerra
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To: Philly Nomad

You forgot, LSU lost to unranked Arkansas, in one of its losses.


58 posted on 01/08/2008 8:20:21 AM PST by D Rider
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
It’s true Michigan beat FL, but that was an emotional game saying goodbye to Coach Carr when they played over their head.

No, it was a sign that they were finally healthy and hitting on all cylinders. With a healthy Hart and Henne in November, they'd have likely beaten both Wisconsin and Ohio State, and been playing LSU last night.

59 posted on 01/08/2008 8:20:24 AM PST by NonZeroSum
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To: edcoil
USC would have beaten both teams...

Yeah, how 'bout that whoopin' the Trojans put on Stanford? Wish the Trojans would have played my Dawgs 'cause I love to see them get "lubricated"!

60 posted on 01/08/2008 8:20:32 AM PST by meandog (I'm one of the FEW and the BRAVE FReepers still supporting John McCain)
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