Posted on 01/04/2005 7:33:16 PM PST by meandog
I'm pretty darn tired of seem the Boomer Sooners bomb in the big ones. Sportswriters consistently give them a pass based upon their pansy-waist conference (Big 12)and rate them high each year. Last year they got their Clymers beaten by LSU; and this year it looks like a rout by USC. Why didn't Auburn (winners in the toughest conference in NCAA Division 1) get the nod for the Orange Bowl?
I think Utah would have been a better match than Auburn.
They were the only team that might have given USC a decent game.
Obviously, the Sooners should not have been in this game and Auburn should have been. The sorry BCS system gets it wrong again. No one in the Big 12 can beat them, but everyone else can. Without Jason White, finally, next year, maybe the Big 12 can rid itself of this annual embarrassment. If they moved to the Philipines, they could be the Manilla Folders.
auburn scheduled 3 pansys to open the year. If they had played even 3 mediocre teams, they would be getting beat by USC instead of OU.
Problem is, if you schedule 3 competent teams early, you might actually get beat by one of them.
The other team that got hosed is undefeated Utah who walloped Pitt in their bowl game.
I kind of agree there. Auburn, or even VT, could have put on a better game against USC.
I too am tired of these blow out "championship" games that you wait all year to see and end up watching for one quarter because they are so one sided.
speaking of overrated let us not forget CAL
pac 10 in general
Excuse me, they did not open the year with 3 pansys. Their non conference schedule had 3 pansies Lousiana Monroe, The citadel, and louisiana tech.
They did beat those three by a combined score of 116-10, but that kind of scheduling is frowned upon by the computers and human voters.
A better question is: Why are NCAAF championships decided by voting (not unlike figure skating and gymnastics)?
They need a playoff system that incorporates the bowls in the worst way.
Duh.
Yea the Big 12 is overrated!
They dont play tough out of conference games, and dont do well against good out of conference teams.
okst got destroyed by osu in the alamo bowl
a&m destroyed by tenn in the cotton bowl
texas beats michigan only because lloyd carr is the one coach other than mack brown who cant win big games.
Same story, new year. Big 12 does not come up big.
My alma mater, University of Louisville, got screwed by the BCS. Okay, just wanted to get that out. Feel better now.
What a dumb-ass comment to make, especially on this night. 55-19. Take your overrated crap and stick it where the sun don't shine.
CAL?!
since you bring it up, i guess you mean the team that represents SC's one loss (last year) when they refer to SC's 33-1 record
the one that played closest to SC this year and had their only lost to SC until, hobbled by a PAC-10 conference more physically dominating (as proved for the last two years including tonight) than any other, to their final disappointment of a bowl (but not as disappointing as, say, all of the Big 12 appearances last year or aTm this year)
is it THAT Cal team that you're bringing up now, for no reason at all, after SC just put the final STFU on all of you who ever said boo to the PAC-10 in recent years and for years to come
lol, your homers on espn that speak english as a second language (after southern drawl or midwestern faux-canadian) won't even be popping off with that crap for a long, long time
I'm with you dwills, I am amazed at the piling on Cal since their game. First of all, if you took Michigan's two receivers away from them by injury, how would they have done against Texas? If you took Vince Young away from Texas, they lose to Michigan by 20. If you took Sonny Cumbie away from Tech, Cal would have routed them. Cal was rated properly prior to losing all their receivers, especially Lynam (sp?) and MacArthur. Those guys were big play guys, just like SC's receivers, and the Cal game turned when the perfect pass by Rodgers was missed by a freshman receiver, batted in the air for an interception, when Cal was driving for towards 21-10 lead and a likely rout. I guess the Big 12 people were just so overcome with shock, surprise and fuzzy feelings over finally having something to crow about in a bowl season that they got carried away with it. Hell, Washington State routed Texas last year, in the same circumstances, but there's little acknowledgement of that as well. Cal's program is just fine, and they are the best team that USC has played over the past two years, a schedule that includes Auburn, Michigan, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma, and Notre Dame (who all these people say is a bad program when Pac-10 teams beat them, but not when Notre Dame beats Tennessee and Michigan). The Bears are fine, and I'm glad they signed Tedford up for more years, to keep him there.
the BCS is fixed,they just pick 2 teams at random
Once again college football decides its champion the same way they decide the figure skating champion in the Olympics.
PLAYOFFS NOW!!! lol
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