Looking at the schedules

[Revolver]

If Oklahoma and Florida go undefeated, shouldn't they play for the national title over USC? I think so. I don't think the Trojans play another ranked team all year.

[BigIrish]

SoCal plays a PAC 10 schedule plus Virginia and Ohio State in non-conference matchups. if you're looking at schedules, i don't think you can count them out so easily.

[rontdtarchala]

If they don't loose they will remain #1 and will play for the nc... espn's love for them will be enough to keep them in the nc...

[ND_Ownz!]

Florida is not even close to USC @ this point...

[BigIrish]

well, that's true...if they don't lose, they play for the national championship, but that doesn't have anything to do with ESPN's man love for them. they beat the hell out of two BCS conference teams at a time when everyone else is warming up on directional schools.

[IrishinTN]

The PAC 10 is about the weakest conference in the land, with the exception of USC. Fer crying out loud, they can't even beat the Mountain West. I know USC is good, but I'd love to see them play LSU or Georgia just to get an idea of how good they really are.

[BigIrish]

seriously, you think the PAC 10 is weaker than the Big Televen or the ACC? or the Big East, for that matter? yikes.

i don't think the PAC 10 is chocked full of world beaters, but the fact remains that SoCal beat the TAR out of some of the best that the Big Ten and ACC have to offer.

[IrishR#1]

Every conference besides the Big Twelve and SEC are garbage this year.

[CULion17]

Here's another situation for you. Ohio St. wins out. Then the argument of well when they played USC they didn't have Beanie and Pryor wasn't starting. Watch OSU get pushed into the big one if there are other 1 loss teams as well. Not likely, but I can hear the talking heads now.

[BGIF]

The PAC 10 is about the weakest conference in the land, with the exception of USC. Fer crying out loud, they can't even beat the Mountain West.

And here we have the secret of the SEC, they wouldn't schedule the Mountain West. Not when the can beat up on teams from the Sun Belt which are about 2 TDs worse than MW. Why play BYU when you can beat up on former 1-AA teams like Troy, Ark ST, Middle Ten, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisana-Monroe (Guess you missed Bama's Homecoming against LA-LA last year? The Warhawks came in every orifice Saban has!), North Texas, and Florida International. Then there's more Southern Fodder like the Colonial. You remember the pasting Miss St gave Maine in Starkville in '04. Black Bear 9, on the road in a buyout game, SEC 7. The SEC still won't discuss it. Lest we forget the Southern Conference which has bolstered SEC winning percentages for 70 years. Why would the SEC travel to Colorado to play Air Force in rarified air when they can kick the breath out of Citadel, Wofford, Furman, Chattanooga, Samford, Western Carolina, or App St? Nobody schedules 1-AA and Div 11 schools like the SEC does.


I know USC is good, but I'd love to see them play LSU or Georgia just to get an idea of how good they really are.

More SEC BS spin. "If only we could play them ..."

"We was fixin' to put Southern Cal (USC means the University of South Carolina in SECland) but there twasn't any open weekends. UAB had an openin' and we jumped on it. We play 'em at home in even years in the next decade and they play here in the odd years." (You be hearin' this talk around T'Town, the Bama trustees have banned games with UAB. They remember what the Blazers (in their 4th year as a 1-A team did to the Great Saban in '00 in Baton Rouge.)

Cut the crap UGA hasn't played 5 games outside the Immeidate South in a regular season game in 50 years. They played Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1965. In 1958 they travelled all the way to Texas to play the Horns. The "dawgs" don't like to get off the porch to run with the Big Dogs!

LSU is a little better traveller, barely. Went to Tempe in '05, Tucson in '03 (can we count those since the PAC-10 sucks so bad or are you gimmies, also?) Had an Home and Home with ND in '97-'98 and '85-'86. Four games with A&M in '91-'95. Nebraska in '75 and '76.

UF isn't any better. They consider the UGA game in Jacksonville to be exhaustive travel. ND fans recoil at the mention of 7-4-1. The SEC model has been to target 8 home games since Kramer became SEC Commissioner about 15 years ago. Kramer was the one that split the SEC into two divisions so the better teams didn't have to play each other. They can load up on the likes of Middle Tennessee while The PAC 10 slugs it out with each other and plays ND, OU, OSU, BYU and the like in OOC games. Kramer then became BCS Czar while still SEC Czar.

Patsy Scheduling and Conference Revenue Sharing if the Congress had leadership like that we wouldn't have our current national financial crisis.

[rattfink]

If Oklahoma and Florida go undefeated, shouldn't they play for the national title over USC? I think so. I don't think the Trojans play another ranked team all year.

It will all come down to strength of schedule. According to Sagarin SC's SOS is #7, UF is #20, and OU is #111. Those numbers will change as the season goes along but it is interesting none the less.

[BigIrish]

And here we have the secret of the SEC, they wouldn't schedule the Mountain West. Not when the can beat up on teams from the Sun Belt which are about 2 TDs worse than MW. Why play BYU when you can beat up on former 1-AA teams like Troy, Ark ST, Middle Ten, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisana-Monroe (Guess you missed Bama's Homecoming against LA-LA last year? The Warhawks came in every orifice Saban has!), North Texas, and Florida International. Then there's more Southern Fodder like the Colonial. You remember the pasting Miss St gave Maine in Starkville in '04. Black Bear 9, on the road in a buyout game, SEC 7. The SEC still won't discuss it. Lest we forget the Southern Conference which has bolstered SEC winning percentages for 70 years. Why would the SEC travel to Colorado to play Air Force in rarified air when they can kick the breath out of Citadel, Wofford, Furman, Chattanooga, Samford, Western Carolina, or App St? Nobody schedules 1-AA and Div 11 schools like the SEC does.



More SEC BS spin. "If only we could play them ..."

"We was fixin' to put Southern Cal (USC means the University of South Carolina in SECland) but there twasn't any open weekends. UAB had an openin' and we jumped on it. We play 'em at home in even years in the next decade and they play here in the odd years." (You be hearin' this talk around T'Town, the Bama trustees have banned games with UAB. They remember what the Blazers (in their 4th year as a 1-A team did to the Great Saban in '00 in Baton Rouge.)

Cut the crap UGA hasn't played 5 games outside the Immeidate South in a regular season game in 50 years. They played Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1965. In 1958 they travelled all the way to Texas to play the Horns. The "dawgs" don't like to get off the porch to run with the Big Dogs!

LSU is a little better traveller, barely. Went to Tempe in '05, Tucson in '03 (can we count those since the PAC-10 sucks so bad or are you gimmies, also?) Had an Home and Home with ND in '97-'98 and '85-'86. Four games with A&M in '91-'95. Nebraska in '75 and '76.

UF isn't any better. They consider the UGA game in Jacksonville to be exhaustive travel. ND fans recoil at the mention of 7-4-1. The SEC model has been to target 8 home games since Kramer became SEC Commissioner about 15 years ago. Kramer was the one that split the SEC into two divisions so the better teams didn't have to play each other. They can load up on the likes of Middle Tennessee while The PAC 10 slugs it out with each other and plays ND, OU, OSU, BYU and the like in OOC games. Kramer then became BCS Czar while still SEC Czar.

Patsy Scheduling and Conference Revenue Sharing if the Congress had leadership like that we wouldn't have our current national financial crisis.

hahahahaha....this is the best post i've read this week.

even though i don't post as much as some of the guys around here, i've been watching BGIF post since the early days when irishenvy was run by svo. and nobody brings the big guns like BGIF.

classic.

[IrishinTN]

And here we have the secret of the SEC, they wouldn't schedule the Mountain West. Not when the can beat up on teams from the Sun Belt which are about 2 TDs worse than MW. Why play BYU when you can beat up on former 1-AA teams like Troy, Ark ST, Middle Ten, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisana-Monroe (Guess you missed Bama's Homecoming against LA-LA last year? The Warhawks came in every orifice Saban has!), North Texas, and Florida International. Then there's more Southern Fodder like the Colonial. You remember the pasting Miss St gave Maine in Starkville in '04. Black Bear 9, on the road in a buyout game, SEC 7. The SEC still won't discuss it. Lest we forget the Southern Conference which has bolstered SEC winning percentages for 70 years. Why would the SEC travel to Colorado to play Air Force in rarified air when they can kick the breath out of Citadel, Wofford, Furman, Chattanooga, Samford, Western Carolina, or App St? Nobody schedules 1-AA and Div 11 schools like the SEC does.



More SEC BS spin. "If only we could play them ..."

"We was fixin' to put Southern Cal (USC means the University of South Carolina in SECland) but there twasn't any open weekends. UAB had an openin' and we jumped on it. We play 'em at home in even years in the next decade and they play here in the odd years." (You be hearin' this talk around T'Town, the Bama trustees have banned games with UAB. They remember what the Blazers (in their 4th year as a 1-A team did to the Great Saban in '00 in Baton Rouge.)

Cut the crap UGA hasn't played 5 games outside the Immeidate South in a regular season game in 50 years. They played Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1965. In 1958 they travelled all the way to Texas to play the Horns. The "dawgs" don't like to get off the porch to run with the Big Dogs!

LSU is a little better traveller, barely. Went to Tempe in '05, Tucson in '03 (can we count those since the PAC-10 sucks so bad or are you gimmies, also?) Had an Home and Home with ND in '97-'98 and '85-'86. Four games with A&M in '91-'95. Nebraska in '75 and '76.

UF isn't any better. They consider the UGA game in Jacksonville to be exhaustive travel. ND fans recoil at the mention of 7-4-1. The SEC model has been to target 8 home games since Kramer became SEC Commissioner about 15 years ago. Kramer was the one that split the SEC into two divisions so the better teams didn't have to play each other. They can load up on the likes of Middle Tennessee while The PAC 10 slugs it out with each other and plays ND, OU, OSU, BYU and the like in OOC games. Kramer then became BCS Czar while still SEC Czar.

Patsy Scheduling and Conference Revenue Sharing if the Congress had leadership like that we wouldn't have our current national financial crisis.

Alright buddy, calm down. I'm no SEC apologist by any means. Living here as an ND fan does me no favors. I could tell you about the abuse I receive just for wearing a frigging ND shirt to a Captain D's, but that is a story for another time.

And maybe Georgia not coming into USC or LSU not going to Ann Arbor was part of my point. I'd like to see these big dogs play each other a little more instead of the patsy's, although an SEC schedule is one of the hardest around.

The Mountain West has BYU, but do you really think, other than that, they have teams that make that conference a power house?