If Louisville runs the table this year, Do you think Louisville has a chance to play for a National Championship?

(07-28-2013 01:09 AM)7thHeaven Wrote:  If Louisville runs the table this year, Do you think Louisville has a chance to play for a National Championship?

Yes, but only if there are no other undefeated teams (or at least, not more than one other - and that one MUST be SEC)

(07-28-2013 01:35 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(07-28-2013 01:09 AM)7thHeaven Wrote:  If Louisville runs the table this year, Do you think Louisville has a chance to play for a National Championship?

Yes, but only if there are no other undefeated teams (or at least, not more than one other - and that one MUST be SEC)

Getting ahead of ourselves, Syracuse beat the snot out of us and UConn beat us at home. Still lots of work and some luck to run the table.

(07-28-2013 06:08 AM)TegaCayCard Wrote:  

(07-28-2013 01:35 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(07-28-2013 01:09 AM)7thHeaven Wrote:  If Louisville runs the table this year, Do you think Louisville has a chance to play for a National Championship?

Yes, but only if there are no other undefeated teams (or at least, not more than one other - and that one MUST be SEC)

Getting ahead of ourselves, Syracuse beat the snot out of us and UConn beat us at home. Still lots of work and some luck to run the table.

The following is opinion only:

The lack in SOS may hurt and a one loss SEC team may get in ahead of an unbeaten Louisville. This is prejudicial but is based on perception. A lone loss Alabama or LSU or Florida will be perceived as stronger than an undefeated Louisville.

I disagree with this without looking into the significance of presumed Louisville victories, but the powers that be rarely know what everyone else is doing, at least under the BCS set up.

If the playoffs were in place this season, an undefeated Louisville would fare much better.

The problem is the AAC schedule. It will be hard to overcome.

The problem is that we don't have a single "signature" game on the schedule, i.e. at the end of the season if we go 12-0 there won't be a team that everybody will say "oh wow they beat xxxxx that was a great victory for them". We've got a bunch of average and severely below average teams on the schedule, none of which brings any excitement whatsoever to our fanbase. We're forced to let a bunch of CUSA teams infest our stadium thanks to that gremlin looking moron Aresco being butthurt and giving us all but one former Big East team on the road. Not exactly a championship caliber slate if you ask me.

2014 can't get here soon enough. Really tired of seeing the USF and Cincinnati trolls infiltrate this otherwise decent board to spew their drivel about being "left behind" and how great their lackluster programs are.

Louisville is in a tough spot. A single loss will be nearly impossible to overcome. It might even keep them out of a BCS bowl.

What does this have to do with the ACC?

(07-28-2013 09:18 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  Louisville is in a tough spot. A single loss will be nearly impossible to overcome. It might even keep them out of a BCS bowl.

Nah, as long as they win the AAC, they'll go to a BCS bowl. This is the last year the former BE has an auto-bid into the BCS.

If Louisville goes undefeated and there are not 2 or more P5 undefeateds and no big name SEC or B1G school has only 1 loss, then Louisville can make the National Championship game.

On another note, If Louisville does win the AAC and misses out on the Championship game, there's a pretty good chance they could end up in the Orange bowl against an ACC school. I don't think the SEC will give them another bid into the Sugar. Mainly because they don't like repeat teams in bowls but also because they lost.

(07-28-2013 09:19 AM)wahoowa Wrote:  What does this have to do with the ACC?

(07-28-2013 10:10 AM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(07-28-2013 09:19 AM)wahoowa Wrote:  What does this have to do with the ACC?

I'm a Louisville fan but lived all my Jr. and Sr. high school years in Newport News. I am a VA Tech fan amd know why most in Virginia hate the UVA crowd.

One game @ a time...up first...Ohio...

(07-28-2013 11:50 AM)Maize Wrote:  One game @ a time...up first...Ohio...

That is what every football coach I ever had said, "one game at a time".

I think it depends on our ranking at the beginning of the year and how much weight our Florida win will carry over because our schedule is not going to do us any favors. We also need a couple other American teams to be ranked when we play them.

The chances are very low. In '09 Cincinnati played and beat 4 ranked teams, 3 of those games on the road, on their way to a 12-0 regular season and couldn't get higher than #4 in the rankings. Louisville's schedule will be far weaker than that.

(07-28-2013 02:17 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote:  The chances are very low. In '09 Cincinnati played and beat 4 ranked teams, 3 of those games on the road, on their way to a 12-0 regular season and couldn't get higher than #4 in the rankings. Louisville's schedule will be far weaker than that.

UC then lost their coach to ND and got trounced in the Sugar Bowl by a UF team that was clearly the 2nd best team in the country that year and only a hair's length away from being #1. However, everyone made a big deal about the game as exposing UC for being "overrated." That still annoys me. Any team in the country, but one would have lost to UF, and almost all of them would have been bad losses, even with a coach. UF was that good. In fact, I'm not sure that there was a team in the country that could have beaten UF without their coach. I'm not even sure that there was a team that could have kept the game close without a coach. UC deserved a LOT more respect than they got.

(07-28-2013 10:07 AM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(07-28-2013 09:18 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  Louisville is in a tough spot. A single loss will be nearly impossible to overcome. It might even keep them out of a BCS bowl.

Nah, as long as they win the AAC, they'll go to a BCS bowl. This is the last year the former BE has an auto-bid into the BCS.

If Louisville goes undefeated and there are not 2 or more P5 undefeateds and no big name SEC or B1G school has only 1 loss, then Louisville can make the National Championship game.

On another note, If Louisville does win the AAC and misses out on the Championship game, there's a pretty good chance they could end up in the Orange bowl against an ACC school. I don't think the SEC will give them another bid into the Sugar. Mainly because they don't like repeat teams in bowls but also because they lost.

Chris, this year the Orange Bowl picks 1st, then the Sugar, then the Fiesta. There is ZERO change the Orange picks Louisville (or any AAC champ). If Notre Dame is available it will be ACC vs. Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl - otherwise, it will be best available at-large (probably Big Ten or Big 12, assuming SEC puts a team into the BCS Title game).

In this scenario Louisville will go to the Fiesta Bowl to play the Big 12 champ. This is a LOCK.

(07-28-2013 05:55 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(07-28-2013 10:07 AM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(07-28-2013 09:18 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  Louisville is in a tough spot. A single loss will be nearly impossible to overcome. It might even keep them out of a BCS bowl.

Nah, as long as they win the AAC, they'll go to a BCS bowl. This is the last year the former BE has an auto-bid into the BCS.

If Louisville goes undefeated and there are not 2 or more P5 undefeateds and no big name SEC or B1G school has only 1 loss, then Louisville can make the National Championship game.

On another note, If Louisville does win the AAC and misses out on the Championship game, there's a pretty good chance they could end up in the Orange bowl against an ACC school. I don't think the SEC will give them another bid into the Sugar. Mainly because they don't like repeat teams in bowls but also because they lost.

Chris, this year the Orange Bowl picks 1st, then the Sugar, then the Fiesta. There is ZERO change the Orange picks Louisville (or any AAC champ). If Notre Dame is available it will be ACC vs. Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl - otherwise, it will be best available at-large (probably Big Ten or Big 12, assuming SEC puts a team into the BCS Title game).

In this scenario Louisville will go to the Fiesta Bowl to play the Big 12 champ. This is a LOCK.

Fine by me....want a piece of the Big XII...Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State or TCU...

(07-28-2013 01:09 AM)7thHeaven Wrote:  If Louisville runs the table this year, Do you think Louisville has a chance to play for a National Championship?

A mildly better shot than TCU, Utah and Boise State in past years. But not a good chance.

(07-28-2013 07:14 PM)Marge Schott Wrote:  

(07-28-2013 01:09 AM)7thHeaven Wrote:  If Louisville runs the table this year, Do you think Louisville has a chance to play for a National Championship?

A mildly better shot than TCU, Utah and Boise State in past years. But not a good chance.

This.