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To: Hillary 666
With a name like Hillary 666 doesn't surprise me what you said...unfortunately, dear, I would check your facts and ALL the other colleges....... Congrats ERIC...you deserve the honor and we love you here in Nebraska... and thank you thank you LSU........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry...play by the rules...Nebraska is now #2 in the nation and we get to play MIAMI.....
198 posted on 12/08/2001 10:43:07 PM PST by OPU48
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To: OPU48
The thought of Nebraska playing in the National Championship is distasteful and illogical. After all, they didn't even win their own conference, and they lost big time to Colorado by 26 points only two weeks ago.

I found a reason to vote against Nebraska, when I really looked at their schedule closely. They were found to have the #14 strength of schedule, which sounds great. However, they went 6-0 against teams with a #64 ranking or worse(patsies)! They were 4-1 against top 40 teams, 1-1 against top 25 teams, and 0-1 against top 10 teams.

What about Oregon. Their strength of schedule is #31. They were 2-0 against patsies, 3-1 against top 40, 2-1 against top 25, and 0-1 against top 10 teams.

Colorado played by far the most quality teams. They had the #2 strength of schedule. They were 3-0 against patsies, 5-2 against top 40 teams, 2-2 against top 25 teams, and 2-1 against top 10 teams. I think an argument can be made that if Nebraska or Oregon had played two more top 40 teams, they might have another loss on their record like Colorado. Nebraska is particularly ridiculous, since their patsies all came at the beginning of the year. They got fat fast.

200 posted on 12/08/2001 11:54:04 PM PST by diamond6
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