And the College Football season begins!!!

[The Shaman]

Let's say that Texas is upset a buoyed-up Kansas team while Alabama wins out - do you put the Tide in the Rose Bowl? Is 'bama better than Penn State, Miami...or Texas, for that matter?

 

[fett527]

Let's say that Texas is upset a buoyed-up Kansas team while Alabama wins out - do you put the Tide in the Rose Bowl? Is 'bama better than Penn State, Miami...or Texas, for that matter?

No one wants to put Bama up due to lack of offense right now. If Texas is beaten and Bama wins out in the SEC they better be in the Championship game.

 

[fett527]

Miami and Ohio State were fundamentally very similar teams (which not many people realised, because the Big East gets ignored in the regular season), both of which relied on defense and running the ball; the only difference was that Tressel is a lot more comfortable with a ten-point lead than Coker is (and this gets Ohio State in trouble; sooner or later he's going to figure out that you've got to put games away no matter who you're playing, and the Buckeyes will win another title). USC would have been a fundamentally different challenge.

I wish we could have played USC, I really do. The Bucks would have beat em in '02 however different the challenge. It would have been interesting this year if Troy Smith hadn't been suspended at the beginning of the year. Oh well.

 

[Crothian]

Let's say that Texas is upset a buoyed-up Kansas team while Alabama wins out - do you put the Tide in the Rose Bowl? Is 'bama better than Penn State, Miami...or Texas, for that matter?

If you go through the SEC undefeated and you are one of two undefeated temas in the nation, you deserve to be in that game.

 

[Dimwhit]

If you go through the SEC undefeated and you are one of two undefeated temas in the nation, you deserve to be in that game.

Pretty much my thinking. It would be an interesting game, too. Which one breaks--the USC offense or the 'Bama defense? They say defense win a championship, but I don't think that would be the case here. We may never know.

 

[The Shaman]

No one wants to put Bama up due to lack of offense right now.

I read something that I thought was interesting: a lot of folks talk about how good the defenses in the SEC are, but the same Tennessee Vols who held the Tide to two field goals proceeded to give up forty-plus points to the Irish.

Are the defenses in the SEC that good, or are the offenses just laughably bad?

 

[drothgery]

I read something that I thought was interesting: a lot of folks talk about how good the defenses in the SEC are, but the same Tennessee Vols who held the Tide to two field goals proceeded to give up forty-plus points to the Irish.

Are the defenses in the SEC that good, or are the offenses just laughably bad?

I'd guess that that the defenses are good, but not as good as they look; the offenses are bad, but not as bad as they look. Pretty much the reverse of what's going on in the Pac 10.

 

[Dimwhit]

Well, today's the day. My Broncos travel to Fresno State for, quite possibly, the WAC championship. I'm pretty nervous. I think Boise is the better team, but Fresno is due to beat them. Boise has won the last four meetings and 31 straight in the WAC. This is, apparently, the year of ended streaks...

 

[Crothian]

Well, today's the day. My Broncos travel to Fresno State for, quite possibly, the WAC championship. I'm pretty nervous. I think Boise is the better team, but Fresno is due to beat them. Boise has won the last four meetings and 31 straight in the WAC. This is, apparently, the year of ended streaks...

THat one team is due to bet anomther is a myth. Boise can npull it off, they've been playing very well. And Fresno might be looking ahead to a USC game and that's the streak they really want to end.

 

[fett527]

Well, today's the day. My Broncos travel to Fresno State for, quite possibly, the WAC championship. I'm pretty nervous. I think Boise is the better team, but Fresno is due to beat them. Boise has won the last four meetings and 31 straight in the WAC. This is, apparently, the year of ended streaks...

I'll be rootin' for em! Go Broncos!