2008 Bowl Season Louisiana Snubbed by Indi Bowl

[BrockMeaux]

Most people who float that around say that Texas will end up in the BCS Title game, which I personally find pretty laughable because, just one year ago, everybody saying that now was saying that Georgia didn't deserve to get in because they didn't win their conference. If the unthinkable happens and Missouri beats Oklahoma, and USC does what they're going to do and crush UCLA, they - not Texas - should meet the winner of Florida/Alabama. Since 2002, people have been clamoring for USC vs. the best of the SEC to settle the great debate, and I don't want to get swept up in the Big XII wave and miss out on that potentially great game to satisfy the woe-is-Texas crowd.

[Parrott]

Last season, Georgia lost to 6-6 South Carolina and 10-4 Tennessee. The loss to South Carolina was 16-12; against Tennessee it was 35-14.

The Longhorns lost to then-No. 6 Texas Tech on the final play of the game on the road, 39-33. That's after beating top 10 teams Oklahoma, Missouri and Oklahoma State in back-to-back-to-back weeks by an average of 13 points. They beat Oklahoma by 10.

If a 9-3 Missouri team beats a one-loss Oklahoma squad, I think Texas (11-1) would be a better opponent for the Alabama-Florida winner than anyone else in the field.

[DrumRoll]

_ Last season, Georgia lost to 6-6 South Carolina and 10-4 Tennessee. The loss to South Carolina was 16-12; against Tennessee it was 35-14.

The Longhorns lost to then-No. 6 Texas Tech on the final play of the game on the road, 39-33. That's after beating top 10 teams Oklahoma, Missouri and Oklahoma State in back-to-back-to-back weeks by an average of 13 points. They beat Oklahoma by 10.

If a 9-3 Missouri team beats a one-loss Oklahoma squad, I think Texas (11-1) would be a better opponent for the Alabama-Florida winner than anyone else in the field. _

But, but, but...

Texas lost during regular season play as did USC, had Alabama not been obligated to play a conference championship they would remain undefeated in my scenario...

How can a team with a regular season loss (nevermind that their loss was to a lower ranked opponent) "deserve" the game more than a team that went undefeated in the regular season?

[Parrott]

_ But, but, but...

Texas lost during regular season play as did USC, had Alabama not been obligated to play a conference championship they would remain undefeated in my scenario...

How can a team with a regular season loss (nevermind that their loss was to a lower ranked opponent) "deserve" the game more than a team that went undefeated in the regular season? _

I just don't see a rematch of Alabama and Florida in the BCS championship game if the Gators win the SEC title.

[BrockMeaux]

_ I just don't see a rematch of Alabama and Florida in the BCS championship game if the Gators win the SEC title. _

Agreed.

[DrumRoll]

_ Agreed. _

Bah, you guys are no fun...

If you had college students at Oxford (England) that know nothing of college football put it to a vote based on merit alone, Alabama is in...and since "people" have a vote in this, you never know what mischief and mayhem they may vote for :-)

It would certainly turn college football on it's ear if it happened, and would provide the fastest possible path to a playoff plan IMO...

[GrenadaCajun]

So teams that played on the last weekend of the season have played for the national championship before. Although it was before the BCS, In the 1997 sugar bowl, #1 FSU played #3 Florida for the national championship about a month after FSU beat Florida to end the regular season. Arizona State was #2, but back then, the Pac 10 winner had to go to the Rose bowl. So the bowl alliance agreed to have the sugar bowl be the national championship game. And, we all remember the same thing happened the next year with Michigan and Nebraska, which brought about the system that we all know and love, the BCS. Anything is possible when the writers have a vote and we use computer calculations that nobody understands. Geaux Cajuns!!!!!!!!

[Arkstfan]

I was just pointing out that the NCAA does whatever they want. _

You mean like the time a Bobby Knight player at Indiana posed for a fund-raising calendar and got suspended for one game and a week later the NCAA handed down a 2 game suspension to a player at one of the MAC schools in Indiana for the same thing?

[DrumRoll]

_ So teams that played on the last weekend of the season have played for the national championship before. Although it was before the BCS, In the 1997 sugar bowl, #1 FSU played #3 Florida for the national championship about a month after FSU beat Florida to end the regular season. Arizona State was #2, but back then, the Pac 10 winner had to go to the Rose bowl. So the bowl alliance agreed to have the sugar bowl be the national championship game. And, we all remember the same thing happened the next year with Michigan and Nebraska, which brought about the system that we all know and love, the BCS. Anything is possible when the writers have a vote and we use computer calculations that nobody understands. Geaux Cajuns!!!!!!!! _

Yup, you got it...the BCS has not fixed much, if anything...

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, shoot it! And this sucker is quacking...

[DrumRoll]

_ If Troy finishes 7-5, then they won't go to the NO Bowl because ASU would get the nod. But if Troy is the conference champion, then they are obligated to go to the NO Bowl, because no 6-6 Sun Belt program can. _

So...we want ASU to win so they can lock up the NO Bowl, Troy goes to Papa Johns, and we do not have another regionally close 6-6 SBC team for the others to choose from?