I wish that fumble had gone out of bounds --> Wisconsin scores, would have made for a very intense game and possible overtime. Excited for Stanford/OKST. Grats on the Outback bowl I guess...heartbreaker for us Really intense game.
VT had twice the yardage and still lost because of horrible decision making and a super close call overturned.
well yeah the lsu fans on would obviously rather play ok state because they are a WORSE team than alabama
Oklahoma State was one shitty kicker away from losing to Stanford (and yeah Stanford isn't bad (even though we creamed em, lol)), but they also lost to the fuckin cyclones. Alabama was a field goal away from #1. I know rematches are stupid but c'mon.
I saw the first quarter of the Orange bowl but had to go after that. Jaw dropped when I checked the 50something-20 score in the 3rd quarter with 9 minutes left, 50something-20
What a fucking stupid Championship game. I seriously wish USC would have lost to Oregon so that this game would have been watchable.
Wait so Alabama is better than LSU but LSU played a much harder schedule and handled every team they played and also beat Alabama on the road and were generally more impressive but they sucked tonight and
I don't really care who you beat, If you play like that in the championship game you don't deserve to win the championship. *I mean LSU never deserved it in the first place or something
Even if Oregon had beaten USC we probably still would have ended up in the Rose Bowl (although if LSU had played like that on September 3rd I think this season would've been a lot different). seriously, lol!
LSU played like that because they got shut down by the best defense in the country. Oregon is far from the best defense in the country Is that so hard to understand?
they made so many mistakes, a high school defense would've stopped some of those drives also oregon's defense is better than people give them credit for. They're no SEC defense, obviously, but if you have that many 2 minute drives obviously the other team is gonna have way more chances to score.
Hey hey, nice pun, but I don't think I'm being unreasonably defensive There's more to the #1 team losing than simply "mistakes," especially to a team that everyone bitched about getting into the NC. I'm just saying that Bama is clearly the best team in the nation, and did what twelve other teams failed to do.
yeah I agree with the bama being best part, but I think Jefferson was additionally shitty (that fumbled snap, the other fumble, the retarded pick that not even I would've fucked up) and the receivers were dropping some pretty easy ones
This pretty much sums up my thoughts on the game. http://espn.go.com/espn/commentary/...lsu-bcs-title-matchup-was-bad-game-bad-system
Question of the day: do you think Alabama is the best team in the nation, or that they would get shat on by Stanford/Boise/Oregon/OKState?
I think Oregon and Okie State (EDIT and Stanford of course) would both have a chance, as they have good quarterbacks. Playoff needed etc.
LSU beat Oregon by 23 points....I don't think Oregon would have a chance against Bama. Boise wouldn't either. I think Bama's defense would be able to stop OKST but it's pretty tough to say. Agreed with Kahless on how badly a PLAYOFF IS NEEDED etc.
Of course Oregon would have a chance against Bama. They wouldn't be favored, but they would certainly have a chance. They would win 3 out of 10 meetings more likely than winning 0 out of 10. No team at the top is so head-and-shoulders above another that they would have no chance.
Fair enough, points taken. They'd have a chance. One of the reasons I really want a playoff is so we don't have to ask a million different "what if" questions. It gets old quick. Even with keeping the bowls and only implementing a 4 damn team playoff would answer several questions we keep asking each other. How sick would LSU/Stanford and Bama/OKST be as a 4 team playoff?
In my opinion, the recent partnership that the Pac 12 and the Big 10 agreed to is huge and is going to change the landscape of college football in the near future.
everyone always says shit like this. how do you know? no one thought BSU would have beaten oklahoma however many years ago, and they did. let the teams determine it on the field. i'm sick of people saying shit like "there's no way such and such such and such". there's no way providence beats louisville by 31 points in men's bball last night, but it happened. it happens all the time. but the caveat is this: we can never know who the truly "best team" is because they only play 12-14 games. no one can play everybody. so we have to be content with the current system to determine the champion because as of right now, there is not a better system in place. would a playoff fix this? maybe. but then, hypothetically, let's say boise beats lsu by 3 in the semifinal of a playoff system, then loses to bama by 23. now everyone would say "they didn't deserve to be there, lsu already beat bama, bama got it easy", etc. debates like this will never, ever end.
i feel this shit hard. In my opinion, a playoff is a bad idea because it may not even fix all the problems with the system, on top of the fact that it would dilute the meaningfulness of the regular season. i do wish there was some way we could incorporate more inter-conference play - in certain ways, i think extending the regular season and/or mandating teams to schedule more out-of-conference games may do more to fix the system than a playoff would. that said, the longer the regular season becomes, the less important each game will be. idk. i definitely think the plus 1 system is a good idea that would fix a lot of problems without the risk of fucking up the regular season though.
