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This is payback for 2004
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:10 am
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:10 am
Once upon a time, the SEC did not enjoy the brand it does today. Let's go all the way back to the early 2000s.
LSU won the national championship in 2003 but the media tried to give it to USC. Actually, LSU should've played USC in the BCS game but OU got in even though it KSU kicked its arse.
However, the real travesty was next year.
Auburn went undefeated. There were three teams undefeated but OU was figured to be the better team because well it was OU and the SEC wasn't considered to be the power it is now. We all knew better of course but such is how things go. Auburn should've been there and would've given a much better account than the Sooners did as the Sooners played a cream puff schedule as they always did back then.
In fact, Urban Meyer had to lobby hard for the Gators to play THE Ohio State University. The media mocked Florida until the second quarter.
SO yeah, yesterday was some payback. Too damn bad, Florida State. Earn your chops like we did. That means you will come close a time or two but keep playing and beating top ten teams AS BOBBY BOWDEN DIDI IN THE 1980's and you will get that repeat you need at crunch time.
Or you can follow the path of Central Florida. Have one great year, get exposed in the bowl game, and then never amount to much afterwards.
LSU won the national championship in 2003 but the media tried to give it to USC. Actually, LSU should've played USC in the BCS game but OU got in even though it KSU kicked its arse.
However, the real travesty was next year.
Auburn went undefeated. There were three teams undefeated but OU was figured to be the better team because well it was OU and the SEC wasn't considered to be the power it is now. We all knew better of course but such is how things go. Auburn should've been there and would've given a much better account than the Sooners did as the Sooners played a cream puff schedule as they always did back then.
In fact, Urban Meyer had to lobby hard for the Gators to play THE Ohio State University. The media mocked Florida until the second quarter.
SO yeah, yesterday was some payback. Too damn bad, Florida State. Earn your chops like we did. That means you will come close a time or two but keep playing and beating top ten teams AS BOBBY BOWDEN DIDI IN THE 1980's and you will get that repeat you need at crunch time.
Or you can follow the path of Central Florida. Have one great year, get exposed in the bowl game, and then never amount to much afterwards.
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Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:11 am to prplhze2000
Checks out
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:12 am to prplhze2000
Ehh I meant it’s Auburn… did anyone really care they were left out?
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:16 am to prplhze2000
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t OU got in even though it KSU kicked its arse.
This was maybe the craziest decision ever. A team coming off of a 28 point loss has no business in the championship game.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:16 am to Crimson K
Thank you. LSU USC was the game we should've had.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:17 am to prplhze2000
USC and Oklahoma were 1 and 2 throughout the season and never lost. Why was it such a travesty? Auburn’s OOC was UL-Monroe, The Citadel, and Louisiana Tech.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:19 am to prplhze2000
OU getting in over Auburn was a not a travesty. It's easy to do revisionist history 20 years later.
Oklahoma had won the natty in 2000 and then had pretty dominant teams again in 2001 and 2002. Their 2003 team was being talked about as a GOAT team all year. They were a machine back then.
I was a student at LSU back in 2003 and I remember being super nervous going into that game.
Oklahoma had won the natty in 2000 and then had pretty dominant teams again in 2001 and 2002. Their 2003 team was being talked about as a GOAT team all year. They were a machine back then.
I was a student at LSU back in 2003 and I remember being super nervous going into that game.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:41 am to Jrv2damac
Auburn played a sec schedule. OU played Big 12. Auburn clobbered Georgia, beat us, beat Florida if I remember right, beat Bama.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:42 am to prplhze2000
You don’t decide your conference opponents. Sorry.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:48 am to prplhze2000
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Auburn played a sec schedule. OU played Big 12. Auburn clobbered Georgia, beat us, beat Florida if I remember right, beat Bama.
The SEC wasn't anything special back then. It had 4 teams that finished ranked. One other team finished in top ten (UGA) and then you had Tenessee ranked 13 and LSU 16.
Dennis Franchione won 10 games at Alabama a year or two before and beat no teams that finished ranked.
USC would have boat raced Auburn. OU was also really, really good that year. It was not even a question who should have been in the game at the time. Auburn's SOS nonconference schedule was pitiful. They won their bowl game by 3 points
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:50 am to prplhze2000
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This is payback for 2004
Let’s get Auburn’s revenge by letting their rival in.
Sounds about right.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:52 am to prplhze2000
So you are saying Auburn getting screwed out of a chance for a NC helped Alabama get a chance for another NC twenty years later?
Seems like a stretch, but I kind of like it anyway. About time someone did the right thing and stood up for Auburn by helping Alabama.
Seems like a stretch, but I kind of like it anyway. About time someone did the right thing and stood up for Auburn by helping Alabama.
This post was edited on 12/4/23 at 10:56 am
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:55 am to prplhze2000
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the media tried to give it to USC
I mean…the media DID give it to USC. Quite literally. They were AP national champions that season.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 10:55 am to elposter
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So your are saying Auburn getting screwed out of a chance for a NC helped Alabama get a chance for another NC twenty years later?
Seems like a stretch, but I kind of like it anyway. About time someone did the right thing and stood up for Auburn by helping Alabama.
That's why they call it the Iron bowl. Irony.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 11:06 am to ShinerHorns
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Ehh I meant it’s Auburn… did anyone really care they were left out?
The only ones that complained are auburn fans. Rightfully so but nobody cares anymore at this point.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 11:18 am to ShinerHorns
quote:I thought it was BS. The worst thing I can remember the BCS doing was letting OU play LSU in 2003 after OU got absolutely spanked by Kansas State
Ehh I meant it’s Auburn… did anyone really care they were left out?
Posted on 12/4/23 at 11:24 am to prplhze2000
I don't disagree with you, but F*CK Auburn, F*CK that BS 2004 LSU-Auburn game, and F*CK Tommy Tuberville. Auburn shouldn't have been undefeated that year.
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Jason Campbell hit Taylor for a 16-yard touchdown pass with 1:14 to play and Auburn got two chances to kick the winning extra point in a 10-9 victory over LSU
Posted on 12/4/23 at 11:29 am to houstonearler
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USC would have boat raced Auburn. OU was also really, really good that year. It was not even a question who should have been in the game at the time
Not that a previous season mattered, but USC absolutely dominated Auburn at home in 2003, iirc. OK and USC were wire to wire #1, and #2 all season long. The only reason it's controversial is that USC thoroughly killed Oklahoma in the BCSCG. That 2005 USC team was frickin loaded.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 11:38 am to Jrv2damac
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USC and Oklahoma were 1 and 2 throughout the season and never lost. Why was it such a travesty? Auburn’s OOC was UL-Monroe, The Citadel, and Louisiana Tech.
That Auburn team beat more top 10 teams than USC and OU combined that year.
Posted on 12/4/23 at 11:58 am to Jrv2damac
and beat…
#5 LSU
#10 Tennessee
#8 UGA
## Unranked bama
#15 Tennessee SECCG
#9 VTech
Let’s not act like Auburn walked through some half arse schedule. It was USC v OU for tv ratings and there’s nothing left to discuss.
#5 LSU
#10 Tennessee
#8 UGA
## Unranked bama
#15 Tennessee SECCG
#9 VTech
Let’s not act like Auburn walked through some half arse schedule. It was USC v OU for tv ratings and there’s nothing left to discuss.
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