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Why should we care?  The National Champions have already been crowned!  [;D]

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Bull fucking shit! [:)]  
Now maybe if USC played a conference championship, or maybe if they hadn't lost to an unranked team, or maybe if they didn't have the weakest schedule of the top 3, then I'd say they have a point.  But they don't!

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Clearly, we have a "Rajun Cajun" fan who's football knowledge surpasses even that of the WIDE majority of the NCAA football coaches and sportswriters...from sea to shining sea!  Thank you for your wonderful insight.  It is a REAL privilege to share this thread with you. [;D]

Like I said...why bother?  The REAL winners are still partying!

Your sagacity is an inspiration to us all!  

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Computers don't take into account the fact that USC is from southern California, home of all the media sportswriters, eager to spite the BCS.  I hope USC gets nailed by the next terrorist plane which triggers a massive earthquake that sends half of Cali floating into the Pacific!  Fuck OU!

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Computers don't take into account the fact that USC is from southern California, home of all the media sportswriters, eager to spite the BCS.  I hope USC gets nailed by the next terrorist plane which triggers a massive earthquake that sends half of Cali floating into the Pacific!  Fuck OU!

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Of all the most annoying things to find replacing a perfectly good TV schedule...

COLLEGE FOOTBALL! Well, at least there won't be any more till next year soon...

There are only 2 things worse: (a) NBA Basketball, and (b) College Basketball!

Football is fun to watch, when it's the NFL... Basketball is intolerable in any form...

Being 'college' just makes it worse, as it seems every championship is decided by committee... Not wins/losses, but 'so-and-so ranks (whatever) in the polls'... It's the ultimate politically correct, subjectivization
of sports...

And of all the times for ABC to have it on, right in the middle of a decent TV lineup...

Ugh...

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Don't worry. Your "Star Search" show will be on next Sunday.
[:D]

Forgot the smiley

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USC is a great team.  I won't deny that.  And it should be LSU vs USC.  But you are the ignorant one if you just blindly declare USC the national champions when there are two other great teams out there, and with tougher schedules and an extra game.  

USC got the easy spot.  They get to play Michigan, while LSU and OU have to play eachother.  

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[red]USC agreed to the BSC rules at the beginning of the season, just like all the other teams did!!![/red]


Now they don't like the outcome, and they whine like the spoiled bitches they are?  That's so damn weak.  Just because you don't like the outcome, doesn't mean you get to change the rules at the END of the game.

I've lost ALL respect for USC, because that just shows that they have no integrity.

But they were robbed, and EVERYONE knows they were.

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Halftime.  14-7 LSU

OU's only score was on a 2 yard drive.


BITCHES.

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Why should we care?  The National Champions have already been crowned!  [;D]

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Robbed?  You need to reread DK-Prof's post.  He hit the nail on the head.  They agreed to the rules.  According to the rules they agreed to abide by, they are not the National Champion, and can't even claim a part of it.  DK-Prof used the word integrity.  Again, he hit the nail on the head.  All of their complaining shows a lack of integrity.z

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I know that you think if you keep saying it maybe it will come true, but unfortunately, we are dealing in the real world here.

I think if LSU beats OU by 14 or more, they will jump USC in voting in all the major polls.  

Several Changes to BCS on Table for Next Season
NCAA Basketball Tournament-Style Committee Possible
By PAUL NEWBERRY, AP SPORTS

NEW ORLEANS (Jan. 4) -- Conceding "we made a mistake," the head of the BCS said an NCAA basketball tournament-style committee might become part of the selection process next season -- reducing the possibility of a split national championship in football.
 
Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said Sunday several issues will be discussed in the coming months, including eliminating computers from the selection process and adding an extra Bowl Championship Series game.

Tranghese, coordinator of the BCS as part of a rotation among the six major football conferences, doesn't have the power to impose any changes on his own. But his comments indicated some possibilities to improve the system.

The BCS came under intense criticism this season when USC, ranked No. 1 by the media and the coaches, was bypassed for Sunday night's Sugar Bowl. The Trojans were expected to remain first in the Associated Press poll after an impressive victory over Michigan in the Rose Bowl.

Oklahoma and LSU, which finished 1-2 in the BCS rankings, were invited to the Sugar Bowl, with the winner assured of getting the top spot in the coaches' poll.

It's precisely the sort of co-championship the BCS was supposed to eliminate.

"We've got a system that somehow leaves the No. 1 team in both human polls out of the championship game," Tranghese told a group of football writers. "We've got to do something."

One method for addressing several different proposals is to set up a panel modeled after the one that selects the field for the 65-team NCAA basketball tournament. While the BCS poll would remain in effect, the committee could get together at the end of the regular season to determine which teams play for the national championship.

If such a committee had been in place this season, it could have overruled the BCS standings, pointing to Oklahoma's 35-7 loss to Kansas State in the Big 12 championship game. LSU and Southern Cal, which each lost games earlier in the season, would have met in New Orleans.

Oklahoma held No. 1 in the BCS based on its strength in the computer rankings.

"Computers don't calculate when you lose a game," said Tranghese, coordinator of the BCS as part of a rotation among the six major football conferences. "The polls are a reflection of your performance from week to week. We should have thought of that. We made a mistake, and we should be criticized."

He said the BCS would discuss several options for tweaking the system, such as requiring a team to win its own conference to qualify for the national championship game.
 
Tranghese favors eliminating the computers altogether, perhaps keeping a scaled-back ranking system that incorporates the two major polls and the other factors already in place -- strength of schedule, losses and quality wins.

"Get rid of the computers," he said. "I hate those things."

A committee -- perhaps made up of representatives from the six conferences -- could oversee the selection process. But no system is perfect, Tranghese stressed.

"We've not even faced the ultimate problem," he said later outside the room, talking with a smaller group of reporters. "What if we have three undefeated teams? What if we have three teams with one loss, but none of them lost at the end of the year?"

On top of everything else, the non-BCS conferences are pushing for a greater role, having been shut out of the lucrative system that started in 1998.

"We're trying to open the door wider," Tranghese said.

But he also said the major conferences would retain their BCS dominance. "Do you really think there are teams out there that we left out that could have won the national championship?" he asked.

 
"We've got a system that somehow leaves the No. 1 team in both human polls out of the championship game. We've got to do something."
-Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese  
 
Tranghese also raised the possibility of changing the BCS name when the contract with ABC-TV ends following the 2005 season, even if the network wants to keep the moniker for marketing purposes.

"It's taken on a life of it own," he said. "Let's get one thing straight: We will determine what the name is, not ABC. If we decide to call it XYZ, it will be XYZ."

Tranghese said the BCS had no role in the coaches' guaranteeing their No. 1 spot to the winner of the BCS championship game. He described that as an arrangement between the American Football Coaches Association and the coaches poll.

Some coaches who voted USC No. 1 have grumbled about having to drop the Trojans on their final ballot.

"There's no rationale explanation for that, but we didn't make the deal," Tranghese said. "The coaches need to look in the mirror and say, 'I didn't know this?' They did know it. They just didn't think it through."

As for a playoff: No chance. Tranghese said college presidents won't allow BCS leaders to even discuss it -- even though a playoff would likely generate more revenue than the current 28-bowl system.

"If we could blow up the bowls and have a full-blown playoff system, just see how much money we could make," he said. "But it's not about money. It's about providing a lot of kids with a chance to play in a bowl."


01-04-04 20:54 EST

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a lot of articles say that there will be a split
anyway. They are saying at that as of now Michigan was a better team than OU or LSU. OU was crushed by K State, Ohio State beat K state, Iowa killed Florida , who beat LSU, Iowa and Ohio State were both beaten by Michigan who was thumped by USC in the Rose bowl.
Try following that.

By no means am i an expert
I watched OU a bunch, the QB is not the same player he was earlier in the year, injured?
LSU has gotten better every week since they got lucky in the first Georgia game. And deserve to be playing for the title.

OU and LSU have excellent defenses, but i think its their offenses that do not match up with USC, i dont see either team scoring enough to beat USC nor do i see them shutting USC down.

They have developed a great system out there, this kid Leinart had a better year than Carson Palmer.

Conceding "we made a mistake," the head of the BCS said an NCAA basketball tournament-style committee might become part of the selection process next season -- [red]reducing[/red] the possibility of a split national championship in football.

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OU Scored! We are coming back. 14-21

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OU Scored! We are coming back. 14-21

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How the hell can you be typing here and be playing on the field at the same time?

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How the hell can you be typing here and be playing on the field at the same time?