And the College Football season begins!!!

[Dimwhit]

I still wish they'd take Oregon instead of Notre Dame. Then the Fiesta would be a Rose Bowl-like matchup. But that certainly won't happen.

 

[Crothian]

I agree, it would be great to see the Ducks get in.

 

[Jonas Grumby]

Way to go, Georgia!!

I don't think I heard one sportscaster/commentator who gave Georgia a chance...

Which tells you quite a bit about sports "journalists" as a whole. I don't think anyone who actually watched Georgia & LSU play this season would have picked the Bayou Bengals.

 

[Crothian]

Which tells you quite a bit about sports "journalists" as a whole. I don't think anyone who actually watched Georgia & LSU play this season would have picked the Bayou Bengals.

Lots of people who saw both teams still picked LSU. Its not like LSU had been playing bad and no one noticed.

 

[Dungannon]

Looks like the Ducks will be facing Oklahoma in the Holiday Bowl.

 

[Crothian]

ND's special treatment gets them in automatically over Oregon.....

 

[drothgery]

Looks like the Ducks will be facing Oklahoma in the Holiday Bowl.

So the Sooners get to get to come to SoCal and get destroyed by a much better Pac 10 team twice in the same season, after ending last season that way? Can't be fun

 

[drothgery]

ND's special treatment gets them in automatically over Oregon.....

ND's special treatment by the pollsters got them into the BCS top 6, and at that point there were no decisions to be made. Any team that's not in the BCS conferences and is in the top 6 in the BCS rankings automatically gets an at-large bid.

I almost think the pollsters set things up this way on purpose (ND at #6, Ohio State at #4) to give the BCS cover when the Pac 10 complains that for the third time in a row, they've managed to give a Pac 10 team the shaft (leaving USC out of the BCS title game three years ago, excluding a one-loss Cal team last year, and excluding a one-loss Oregon team this year).

 

[Crothian]

I don't think the pollster did it specifcally for that, I think they just really favor ND since they get a lot of coverage and everyone loves them and the PAC 10 teams don't.

 

[Dungannon]

And the rule is top 4, not top 6. If it was top 6 then Oregon would've gotten the at-large bid over Notre Dame since they finished #5.