RE: FSU & OSU have played the weakest schedules of any BCS title game participant
What is better, beating four top 25 teams, or seven top 40 teams?
Team A beats 5, 17, 20, 25 - then a bunch of slugs past 50
Team B beats 12, 19, 26, 28, 35, 36, 37 - then a bunch of slugs past 50
Which team is better? You can say team A beat 4 top 25 teams and team B beat just 2. Or you can say Team A beat 4 top 40 teams, and team B beat 7 top 40 teams, or you can say that Team A has the best win.
Auburn's best win of the year is on an absolute fluke - yes they played Bama even. Damn good game for Auburn, but the win was a fluke. So was the win over Ga. Bama's best win of the year was over who? A three loss LSU team? A four loss TAMU? A four loss VT? Mizzou's best win is over who - a four loss TAMU team? Auburn lost to the three loss LSU team and got lucky twice (even though they played inspired ball against Bama). Mizzou has beaten no one to speak of and lost to South Carolina (albeit in overtime).
What's funny is that in a year when Florida stinks and Georgia has massive injuries, the ACC is penalized in the minds of some, while the SEC gets a complete pass.
FSU and OSU have clearly earned their title shots if they win on Saturday. No one else has earned that shot. Personally, I think Alabama is a better team than OSU, but that doesn't matter, Bama lost a defacto playoff game. Each year there are defacto playoff games and this years games included:
Clemson-Georgia (Georgia out)
FSU-Clemson ( Clemson out)
Bama-Auburn (Bama out)
Mizzou-SC (Mizzou out)
Oklahoma State - OSU (Would have mattered if OSU had not lost to WVa)
Baylor - Oklahoma State (Baylor out)
Oregon - Stanford (Oregon out)
Then there are the unseen upsets or losses that now loom large - ASU/Wisky, SC/Tennessee, ND/Michigan State, LSU/Auburn
(This post was last modified: 12-06-2013 04:21 PM by lumberpack4.)
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