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re: Only one scenario keeps a 1-loss Bama out of the playoffs:
Posted on 10/28/15 at 4:28 pm to OldPete
Posted on 10/28/15 at 4:28 pm to OldPete
[quote]Definitely sucked for LSU that year and, in like circumstances, I wouldn't have been a happy camper either.[/quote/]
I appreciate your honesty. I know that the goal of the BCS was to put the two best teams (in their opinion) into the Championship game. And after all the computer BS and the human polls, those two teams just happened to be LSU and Alabama. The thing that I get hung up on though, is one team winning their conference while the other doesn't even win their division.
I also seem to recall how all season long, the so called experts kept going on and on about the Big 12 being so strong that year. Add that to the "every game counts" motto that the NCAA preached yearly, it's hard not to come to the conclusion that bama was chosen over Ok.St. due to being a "media darling"
I appreciate your honesty. I know that the goal of the BCS was to put the two best teams (in their opinion) into the Championship game. And after all the computer BS and the human polls, those two teams just happened to be LSU and Alabama. The thing that I get hung up on though, is one team winning their conference while the other doesn't even win their division.
I also seem to recall how all season long, the so called experts kept going on and on about the Big 12 being so strong that year. Add that to the "every game counts" motto that the NCAA preached yearly, it's hard not to come to the conclusion that bama was chosen over Ok.St. due to being a "media darling"
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Posted on 10/28/15 at 5:57 pm to earl keese
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...while the other doesn't even win their division
I can see that...weird thing is, that wasn't the first time that had happened...in 2001, the year Miami won it, they played an Eric Crouch led Nebraska team in the BCS that got absolutely destroyed by a 2-loss Colorado team that won the Huskers' division and the Big 12...yet Nebraska still went to the championship game and Miami destroyed them likewise...
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...bama was chosen over Ok.St. due to being a "media darling"
It's funny you use that term as it brings back memories...back in the day, I used the same term to describe Notre Dame after they got voted national champions over Bama, by both polls, on two separate occasions, in '66 and '77...
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