Date |
Opponent |
Location |
TV |
Time (PT) |
Tickets |
Gamble |
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9/01/07 |
Idaho |
L.A. Coliseum |
FSN | 7:15PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
9/15/07 |
Nebraska |
Lincoln, NE |
ABC | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
9/22/07 |
Washington State |
L.A. Coliseum |
ABC | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
09/29/07 |
Washington |
Seattle, WA |
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/06/07 |
Stanford |
L.A. Coliseum |
Versus | 4:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/13/07 |
Arizona |
L.A. Coliseum |
TBA | TBA | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/20/07 |
Notre Dame |
South Bend, IN |
NBC | 12:30PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/27/07 |
Oregon |
Eugene, OR |
FSN | 12:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
11/03/07 |
Oregon State |
L.A. Coliseum |
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
11/10/07 |
Cal |
Berkeley, CA |
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
11/22/07 |
Arizona State |
Tempe, AZ |
ESPN | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
12/01/07 |
UCLA |
L.A. Coliseum |
ABC | 1:30PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
01/01/08 |
Illinois |
Rose Bowl |
ABC | 2:10PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
2007 Schedule
496 responses to “2007 Schedule”
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Well its about time that i come back and say I TOLD YOU SO! LOOK WHO IS IN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! O and BTW there is only 1 BCS Title game and LSU won it in 2003 not USC so… no split national championship… LSU WILL DOMINATE OHIO STATE and USC will dominate a terrible Illinois team. I am sad to say, i really wanted to see LSU vs USC but we will wait till next year. Please help us exploit how weak the Big 10 is GL and the rose bowl.
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LSU does not deserve the title game they were not impressive at all, they should of had about 3 or 4 losses, USC and Oklahoma are the most deservant teams no team is playing better as of now, both teams lost there 2 games only because of significant injuries. You guys are lucky you didn’t end up playing Georgia in the SEC title game or else you would of gotten blown out. LSU fans talk about there defense more than anything, and how great it is, I’m sorry but giving up 50 points to Arkansas, about 400 yards rushing, and 300 yards passing to a team that only throws about 15 times a game isn’t impressive at all. also LSU had 2 losses just like USC but here’s the difference LSU lost there last game of the regular season, while USC one there last 4. LSU is a good football team but after they lost to Arkansas it should have been it for them. Also USC is the real national champions of 2003 just look at the polls from the end of that season USC was ranked #1. LSU struggled with Oklahoma in that game winning 21-14 a mere 7 oints, while the following year when USC played Oklahoma in the title game USC won 55-19, a whopping 36 point victory, and for next year LSu is going no where probably a 3 or 4 loss team
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LSU does not deserve the title game they were not impressive at all, they should of had about 3 or 4 losses, USC and Oklahoma are the most deservant teams no team is playing better as of now, both teams lost there 2 games only because of significant injuries. You guys are lucky you didn’t end up playing Georgia in the SEC title game or else you would of gotten blown out. LSU fans talk about there defense more than anything, and how great it is, I’m sorry but giving up 50 points to Arkansas, about 400 yards rushing, and 300 yards passing to a team that only throws about 15 times a game isn’t impressive at all. also LSU had 2 losses just like USC but here’s the difference LSU lost there last game of the regular season, while USC one there last 4. LSU is a good football team but after they lost to Arkansas it should have been it for them. Also USC is the real national champions of 2003 just look at the polls from the end of that season USC was ranked #1. LSU struggled with Oklahoma in that game winning 21-14 a mere 7 oints, while the following year when USC played Oklahoma in the title game USC won 55-19, a whopping 36 point victory, and for next year LSu is going no where probably a 3 or 4 loss team
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LSU and Ohio State is a very interrsting matchup because we really don’t no what to expect from either team. I think the key matchup is LSU’s front line v.s. Chris Beanie Wells and the ground game. A lot of people are set that LSU will dominate but Iam not so sure I want to go down that road. However if OSU doesnt get Tod Bekhman and that passing game going again LSU will dominate, unless they perform like they did against Arkansas. It isnt as if LSU has looked that much more impressive than OSU. The only factor that fans have really looked at is that LSU plays in the stronger conference the SEC. Although after last year Florida proved thats a key factor after it’s 41-14 thrashing on the Bucks. This year I feel OSU is a bit more of an underdog than it should be. However the factor fans are forgetting is that the game is in New Orleans, Louisiana, can somebody say HOME FEILD ADVANTAGE!!! The same ofcourse goes for USC and Illinois in the Rose Bowl.
I am sure that USC will handle Illinois because of the Fighting Illini’s lack of a passing game. Ive seen Illinois against Iowa an 9:00 am game earlier this season and they looked terrible losing 10-6. Trust me 6 wont be enough to beat the Men of Troy. Illinois was just forcing everything fumbling on options, getting negative yardage play after play, I dint see how that team is going to beat USC. I think the Illini will keep within reach for a little while but USC will soon begin to pull away, and dominate. -
SECBABY, even you would have to agree that LSU was EXTREMELY fortunate to end up in the title game after blowing chunks against an average Arkansas team. As I stated on Dec 3, I could make arguments for OSU, LSU, OK, USC, Va Tech, W Va and Hawaii for deserving a shot in the title game; and that objectively I fell OK and USC are the two of those teams playing the best at the end of the season. However, given the way the system works (flawed though it be), the OSU/LSU matchup is what comes out and the winner deserves the BCS title (and the AP title which will also go to the winner of that game this year).
Regarding 2003, your statement of “no split title” is assinine and contrary to FACT, which you seem fine to ignore when it does not suit your fancy. There was no split BCS title that year (LSU earned and deserved the BCS title within the bounds of the system), but the just-as-legitimate AP title did in fact go to USC (just as equally earned by them within the bounds of the system). Simply stating something contrary to the truth does not make the truth go away; no matter how much you may despise the truth…..
BTW, if LSU does not improve their play substantially for the BCS title game from what I saw in the last few games of the season, you and a number of other SEC fans are likely to be sorely disappointed. On a whole for the ENTIRE season I believe LSU showed more and was objectively the “better” team of the two; but the way LSU was playing at the end of the season may not be better than OSU. We’ll see how the teams respond and play soon enough. Enjoy the glory of being in the game and the glory of the title should LSU win. Happy New Year regardless.
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mike d have you tried that playoff simulation format on espn.com it’s really cool, theres about 4 or 5 different formats one of them is custom. Anyway I noticed about 40% of the time the title game ended up being between USC, Oklahoma, or Georgia. My question is if we had a playoff format who do you think would end up playing in the title game.
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My 2007-2008 Playoff Format
1)OSU 28 16)BC 17
1)OSU 31
8)Hawaii 45 9)Missou 27
9)Missou 48
OSU 21
5)Georgia 38 USC 34
12)ASU 21
5)Georgia 24
13)Illinois 24 4)USC 27
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Ignore the last comment laptop screwed up
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Yes, I looked at the playoff simulation a couple of weeks ago. I notice the simulation gives you a split of what percentage of the time it believes team A would win against team B, then selects (I presume based on those percentages) the winner for that specific simulated playoff game–So even though you might see a 75% for team A and 25% for team B; on a given run, team B could “pull off the upset” and be selected the winner of that particular game (should happen one out of four times on average for those numbers).
I went ahead and ran USC against every team available and this simulation had USC winning over 50% of the time against every opponent, for whatever that’s worth. The closest splits were against Oklahoma and LSU, both at 51%/49%, basically an even odds coin flip according to the algorithms the simulation makes it’s caluculations.
Ran it a few times all the way through with the various preset seeding selections available and, based on those results and my own intuition, I believe the most likely winner in a playoff would largely be determined by initial seedings and specific matchups throughout the tournament. That is, team A may mathup up well against teams B, C, D and E but not well against F, G, H and I; even though all those teams may be “about as good”. If the brackets split such that they would get to play three of their games agains B,C,D or E, but only one against F,G,H, or I, their chances are reasonably good. Vice versa if the brackets set up opposite.
Even if you have a 60/40 split advantage against each of four opponents in a 16 team tournament, your statisical chances of winning the whole thing are only 0.6^4 = 12.96% That’s likely much better than any other of the individual 15 teams, but still the “Champion” only once about every 7.7 times a tournament with that particular seeding is played.
All that aside I believe USC, Oklahoma or LSU, with about equal liklihood, would win an actual 16 team playoff if we had one this year. The simulation seemed to like Georgia’s matchups in their bracket using one of the preset seedings available (I forget which one), as it had Georgia winding up in the title game many more times than I would have thought when I ran it, so maybe Georgia would be a sleeper in such a tournament. No one can no for sure.
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What do you guys think about that 4 team playoff system in 2011, I dont really like it, because there whole objective for that is to get it right and stop some contreversy, and that adds more contreversy. At that point the question will remain who should be the fourth team whitch team in the top 7 or ten deserve it more to get in to that playoff.
If we had that system now in my mind the bst playoff we would see. would 1)OSU v.s 4)USC
2)LSU v.s. 3)OU, Now Although that sounds great. I would still rather keep that BCS system the way it is. The only upside of that whole 4 team playoff, that ables us to have a playoff while keeping the same regular season importance, because that way you still cant, really cant afford more than 2 losses, and for alot of teams who aren’t as big as power houses you cant afford 2 losses -
For a year like this year a “plus one” system (basically a four team playoff) would still leave much controversy as to who got in, but historically speaking I’m not sure that’d be the case in most years. Even with a year like this one, with no clear cut sorting out of the top eight to ten teams, an eight team playoff would pretty much suffice to get all teams that could possibly argue themselves #1 in the playoff (though there’d be a couple screaming pretty loudly this year). There could be some arguing over who the 7th or 8th teams should be, but reality is that it would be a rare occurence that any team in that area of the pecking order would come out on top in an eight team playoff.
Downside, as you mentioned, would be that stretching to eight teams would start to significantly diminish the importance of the regular season games–you’d have a good chance of getting in even with up to two losses. It could really downplay the importance of conference championship games unless getting in the playoff required being conference champion. For example, using pure BCS rankings to select the top eight, both OK and Mizzou would be in and GA would be in, benefiting by not being able to have suffered a possible third loss in their championship game that could have dropped them out of the top eight.
So choose your poison of imperfection.
Personally, I’m in favor of an eight team “plus two” system (possibly using the four major bowls to get down to the final four, then two semifinal games and the championship game). The six BCS conference champions getting in seeded 1-6 based on their final BCS ranking plus a couple of “at large” berths getting the 7th and 8th seeds factored in somehow. An at large team from a non BCS conference with a higher BCS ranking than any of the BCS conference champions would move up in seeding accordingly. No same conference matchups allowed in the first round. Using the BCS rankings, under such a system, using the four BCS bowls for the first round, this years seedings/first round matchups would yield something like:
#1 OSU vs #8 Hawaii (Rose Bowl)
#2 LSU vs #6 West Virginia (Sugar Bowl)
#3 Virginia Tech vs #7 Georgia (Orange Bowl)
#4 Oklahoma vs #5 USC (Fiesta Bowl)(LSU would play West Virginia instead of Georgia to avoid a same conference first round matchup).
Kansas and Mizzou would be screaming but you can’t please everyone. Besides, Mizzou already lost twice to one of the teams in the would be playoff and Kansas lost to, and finished ranked below, Mizzou so…I’d leave them out and put Hawaii in. Personally, I’d seed OK #3 and VTech #4, but they finished opposite in the BCS rankings so I’ll leave them as is…
There are just too many good teams across the board with too few common games (as each team only plays 3 or 4 non-conference games) to whittle it down to only two teams during the regular season IMO. Though, under my proposed system, non conference regular season games would lose almost any importance except for jockying for seeding position or getting one of the two at-large bids…. So once again, choose your poison of imperfection.
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Happy New Year with Roses PAC-TEN and all other CFB !
FIGHT ON TROJANS !!!
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SECBABY,
USC did their part to exploit “how weak the Big 10 is” (or did they just show how good they can be?), but your SEC teams did not seem to want to join in that party today, with #12 heavily favored Florida dropping their game to Michigan (unranked 3rd place Big 10 team) and SEC East Champion Tennessee barely handling Wisconsin (the Big 10’s fourth place team).
Georgia held up their end of the bargain crushing Hawaii. It was kind of a no-win situation for them. Most everyone will say they should have done what they did and not give them a whole lot of credit for it. But barely winning or losing would have been horrific. They played a great game, but what a classless move challenging a first down catch with a 35 point lead and the end of the 3rd quarter in a game they were totally dominating in all phases and had firmly in control even if they gave Hawaii 21 points at that time. Lost a bit of respect for them there.
Arkansas got their heads handed to them but the rest of the SEC, while none being overly impressive, held their own and found ways to win. I’d say the outcome of LSU’s game will be the determining factor if one would call the SEC’s overall bowl performance this year a success or not. Should LSU lose, they’d still have an overall winning record, but only one dominating win (Georgia) and I believe only one other win against a ranked team (Tennesse over Wisconsin); while losing their marquee games against OSU and Michigan and having Arkansas manhandled by Mizzou (does my memory fail me, or didn’t Arkansas beat mighty LSU AT Baton Rouge this season?).
Regardless, should LSU win and take the National Championship one would have to call it a successful bowl season for the SEC.
The Big 12 has shown well. Should Oklahoma take out West Virginia, as I believe they will do fairly easily, they would have very nice wins by OK, Mizzou, Texas, and Texas Tech–though I expect Kansas will get taken to the wood shed by Va Tech.
Outside of Arizona St, the Pac 10 showed fairly well–especially considering the coaching disarray at UCLA and them playing with their fourth string QB (or somewhere near there down the depth chart). Oregon surprised me playing so well without Dixon–I really didn’t think they’d put it back together but they did.
On a whole all the Big 10 currently has is Michigan’s big win. They need OSU to pull out a win to salvage the bowl season for that conference. But a win there would give them the National Champ for the year so….
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Oops. Sorry, forgot to give the SEC credit for Auburn’s win over ranked Clemson. To me it doesn’t change the determining factor for the conference’s overall bowl season performance hanging on LSU’s game, but I don’t want to be accused of not giving full credit where it’s due…
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I’d love to see USC add to their string of five top 4 AP finishes, but even with their impressive win today that doesn’t seem likely. Pre-bowl AP rankings:
1. OSU
2. LSU
3. Oklahoma
4. Georgia
5. Virginia Tech
6. USC
7. MizzouGood chance they’ll overtake the OSU/LSU loser but with today’s perfomance by Georgia it’s hard to see them jumping the the Dawgs. If OK and Virginia Tech win by any reasonable margin (which I believe the both will) it’d be hard to see them jumping either of them as well. Similarly, it’d hard to see Mizzou jumping USC despite Mizzou’s impressive win today. So….it looks quite possible we may have to “settle” for a #5 AP finish this year. Sigh…..
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Mike Florida was one of the candidates for next years #1 or #2 before the lost to michigan, Now the favor is Oklahoma but if they lose to West Va. what happens then, the prabables would then be USC or Georgia. However they probably wouldnt take USC because of what happened this year. USC does however lose alot, Cedrick Ellis, Lawrence Jackson, Kevin Ellison, Keith Rivers, Terrell Thomas, JDB, Chauncey Washinton, Thomas Williams, and Fred Davis, However on the flip side they return alot as well, Such as Mark Sanchez, Joe McKnight, Stefon Johnson, Cj Gable, Stanley Havili, Patrick Turner, Vidal Hazelton, David Ausberry, Ronald Johnson, Brian Cushing, Rey Monoluga (assuming those two will return), Clay Mathews, Josh Pikard, Carey Harris, Shareece Wright, Fili Maola, and Everson Griffin, also remeber the great recriuting class they always bring, plus the depth they have.
Now assuming that Oklahoma wins here are my 2007-2008 rankings
#1 Oklahoma
#2 USC
#3 Georgia
#4 Ohio St.
#5 Virginia Tech
#6 LSU
#7 Texas
#8 Missourii
#9 Florida
#10 West Va.
#11 Kansas
#12 Penn St.
#13 Auburn
#14 Wisconsin
#15 Clemson
#16 Airzona St.
#17 Tennessee
#18 Illinois
#19 Alabama
#20 Michigan
#21 Texas Tech
#22 BYU
#23 Oregon St.
#24 Kentucky
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Unless Oklahoma loses tonight, I would agree it will likely be Oklahoma, USC, and Georgia starting next year in the preseason 1-3 positions in some order. But as we saw this year, it’s not where you start, but how healthy you stay, how you play week in and week out, and where you are at season’s end that counts. From ESPN’s Mark Schlabach in his article on USC’s win:
“What the Trojans’ domination of the Illini showed was that USC has a lot more than everyone else when it has everything at its disposal. The No. 7 Trojans are better than both No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 LSU, which will play for the BCS championship Monday night in the Louisiana Superdome. The Buckeyes couldn’t even beat No. 13 Illinois, which was so clearly overmatched by USC. It’s a shame the Trojans can’t play the winner of the BCS title game in two weeks….With a stunning home loss to a 41-point underdog on its résumé, USC wasn’t the most deserving team to play for the national championship. But the Trojans sure look like the best team in college football.”
I think that about sums up this year for USC, and while not everything Trojan fans were hoping for and expecting, an objectively very fine season none-the-less.
FIGHT ON!
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OVERRATED HAVE TO GO THROUGH 2 GOOD TEAMS, PAC 10 IS OVERRATED
WANNA CHALLANGE? STEP UP AND FACE GEORGIA
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How can u put Vtech ahead of LSU after a 48-7 thrashing? Also, Tenesse beat Wisconson…. and there is no way that USC can jump Georgia. Lastly LSU had injured players in their loss to Arkansas, and Look we lost 2 games in 6 OTS, one was to # 17 Kentucky not # 70 something Stanford. But goodluck next year we will be in the mix for a national championship again with Ryan Perriloux and our defense will have more experienced players. And ill say it again the Rose Bowl in 03 was not the national championship game. And im tired of hearing that the Rose bowl is the best BCS bowl. How can it be the best if only the Pac 10 and Big 10 get to play in it?????
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A bit testy to start the new year aren’t we? I believe tigran’s “rankings” were his predictions for 2008-09 preseason rankings. With Oklahoma getting whipped tonight (I’m still a bit stunned by what WV did–Oklahoma looked very good down the stretch; just one more example of how unpredictable things can be), top five final AP teams for 2007 are likely to include (dependant on the outcome of the Va Tech/Kansas game and assuming the BCS championship game is not a blowout either way) OSU, LSU, Georgia, USC and the Va Tech/Kansas winner. Exact order dependant on how good/bad teams look in the Orange Bowl and the Championship game but most likely possibilities for each slot I see are:
1. OSU/LSU winner
2. Georgia
3. Va Tech, USC, or OSU if they lose a competetive game
4. Va Tech/Kansas winner, USC, or OSU/LSU loser
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Well, with Okalhoma’s loss it looks very good for USC to extend their streak to six consecutive top 4 AP finishes. Not too shabby.
Should LSU lose, it’s not inconceivable for their third loss to drop them out of the top five below West Virginia. Mizzou could feasibly move ahead of them too, but it’s hard for me to see putting Mizzou ahead of Oklahoma when OK beat them soundly twice (but stranger things have happened) and I can’t see LSU dropping below Oklahoma at this point no matter what happens Monday. So WV is the only team not mentioned in my previous post on top five teams that I feel could possibly pass up a three loss LSU.
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SECBABY
Quit displaying your ignorance. And please don’t whine about injuries–every team has them. They are part of the game and can severely damage your title hopes (USC, Oregon, West Virginia and many other teams are more than aware of that).
The AP DOES NOT HAVE A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. No one ever said they did. The AP title is in no way tied to the BCS system other than taking the bowl game results that come out of the BCS system into account in evaluating each teams overall performance for the year. The AP voters then vote who they believe the best team to be. Generally, that is going to concur with BCS system–but when the #1 team in both pre bowl human polls doesn’t get into the BCS game because of some computer algorithms, well we see what happened. Heck, USC even got a couple/few #1 votes from the BCS coaches poll (who were supposed to be “bound” to vote for the BCS championship game winner).
No one ever said the 2003 Rose Bowl was a “Championship Game” (though many believed the two teams playing in that game were both better than the two playing in that year’s BCS championship game). But even if both Michigan and USC were better LSU and Oklahoma, LSU got in the BCS title game and won it within the bounds of the system, hence they won AND DESERVE THE 2003 BCS TITLE. Likewise, USC WON AND DESERVES THE 2003 AP TITLE. Please get over it.
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And regarding the Rose Bowl. It is simply the “Granddaddy of them all”. That does not mean it shas the “best matchup” in any given year. It does mean it is the oldest of the bowls with much deeper and richer tradition and pageantry. Sheesh, maybe you should see a therapist do deal with what seems to be “football program national title envy” and “bowl envy”.
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Brad D,
What kind of comment is “Wanna challange, step up and face Georgia”? One could just as easily say to Georgia, “Step up and face USC.” USC isn’t running from any team I assure you. The only other thing I could even possibly think you may be referring to is the Rose Bowl not trying to get Georgia as the replacement team for OSU. If that’s the case you’re statement displays ignorance for the following reasons:
1. USC has/had nothing to do with the “replacement team selection”. The Rose Bowl committee does that.
2. The Rose Bowl Committee did not go after Georgia because (a) they knew there was no way the Sugar Bowl was going to give up Georgia (if the conference of the #2 BCS team has a bowl tie-in, the bowl losing the #1 team cannot select a team from the same conference as the the #2 team without the permission of the bowl losing the #2 team) and (b) tradition (Rose Bowl Big10/Pac10 matchup).Georgia looked good down the stretch and very good against Hawaii, but they failed to even reach their conference championship game so, each view that the way they wish and draw their own conclusions.
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Wow the two teams who were candidates for next years top 2 Oklahoma and Florida, both lose. So that pretty much leaves USC and Georgia. Oklahoma was the favor to be the consensus #1 for 2008
Now with Oklahoma losing here are my 2008-2009 college football rankings
#1 USC
#2 Georgia
#3 Ohio St.
#4 Virginia Tech
#5 Oklahoma
#6 LSU
#7 Texas
#8 Florida
#9 Missouri
#10 West Va.
#11 Kansas
#12 Penn St.
#13 Auburn
#14 Wisconsin
#15 Clemson
#16 Illinois
#17 Arizona St.
#18 Tennessee
#19 Alabama
#20 Michigan
#21 Texas Tech
#22 Boston College
#23 Texas A&M
#24 South Florida.
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SEC Baby cant you get what Mike D is saying. LSU and Oklahoma were #1 and #2 in the BCS system whitch means they get the BCS title. However the human polls the AP. Had USC at #2 instead of Oklahoma, because the AP is totaly different from the BCS, and has the right to do that, there for with USC being #2 in the AP. Won the AP national championship by winning the Rose Bowl. The BCS title is all yours it’s all LSU’s but the AP was USC’s, You cant say the AP was allyours because the voters of the AP didn’t think so that’s why they had USC #1, and the BCS had LSU #1.
ONCE AGAIN GET OVER IT
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By the way my rankings are for next years preseason predictions
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Boy, Kansas surprised me tonight. I didn’t really think Va Tech was all that much, but I thought less of Kansas (no marquee wins and getting beat relatively soundly by Mizzou). Only saw the second half but it seemed to me Va Tech lost that game as much as Kansas won it. Still, got to give credit to Kansas for playing well enough to take advantage of what was there.
Good chance USC could move up as high as #3 in the AP (very slim chance of even to #2 depending on the outcome of Monday’s game but I really don’t see them passing up Georgia) and into the top 5 in the BCS rankings with Va Tech losing. If OSU loses, but is in the game, they could end up at #2 in the AP, pushing USC to a likely #4 behind Georgia. We’ll see.
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Hey SEC BABY,
Regarding your question as to how tigran could have Va Tech ahead of LSU despite LSU thrashing them earlier this year (even though tigran was doing preseason rankings for next year, not end of year rankings for this season). Why don’t you ask that of the computers used for the BCS system? For the prebowl rankings, their cumulative algorithms came out with Va Tech #1, Oklahoma #2 and LSU 3#.
And before you start grousing about those computer rankings, remember, these are the same algorithms that put Oklahoma and LSU into the 2003 BCS championship game over prebowl #1 AP and #1 USA/Today ranked USC. Without them, LSU may not have even been playing in that game (or would have had to beat USC, which while not impossible, IMO would have been unlikely the way USC was playing at that time). Must be quite a conundrum for you.
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Here are my revised rankings for the 2008 preseason
#1 USC
#2 Georgia
#3 Ohio St.
#4 West Va.
#5 Oklahoma
#6 LSU
#7 Texas
#8 Kansas
#9 Florida
#10 Missouri
#11 Virginia Tech
#12 Penn St.
#13 Auburn
#14 Wisconsin
#15 Clemson
#16 Illinois
#17 Arizona St.
#18 Tennessee
#19 Alabama
#20 Michigan
#21 Texas Tech
#22 Boston College
#23 South Florida
#24 Texas A&M
#25 Oklahoma St.
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I moved up West Va. because I herd that both Pat White and Steve Slaton will be coming back. I had USC #1 because It doesn’t seem like theres any other team who had more of a right to take that spot all though if the Trojans do end up being #! next year. To me as a fan it doesn’t really mean anything, because where ever the trojans are ranked in the top 5 all they have to do is just win every game and they will end up playing for a title
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How about:
1. USC (b/c they are God’s chosen football team)
2. Floriday (Returning Heisman winner does wonders)
3. Dem ‘Eers (For just dismantling Oklahoma last week)
4. LSU (For winning tonight)
5. Michigan (Rich Rodriguez + TP = high ranking; good football; enough to win conf)
6. Texas
7. Kansas
8. Os-Pu
9. Va Tech
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Congratulations to LSU.
Well, SEC BABY and other SEC fans, I’d think you’d be quite ecstatic about this time. We know LSU will be #1 and it’s highly likely Georgia will end up #2. (My guess is LSU, Georgia, USC, West Virginia, Kansas and then OSU). OSU showed a couple of signs of life but looked mediocre at best. Self imploding more than once to eliminate any reasonable chance they may have had. LSU looked outstanding for the last part of the first quarter and the entire second quarter but pretty average beyond that. However, that was more than enough to win the game and with it this year’s title (they’ll even get the AP title this year also–maybe you can let 2003 go now).
Now it’s eight long months to wait until next season. Have a wonderful “off season” all.
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But Detrojan is right.
Where do you put the newly revamped Michigan, that will have the nation’s #1 coaching prospect along with the nation’s #1 recruiting prospect. Spread option mania, it’s going to be fun to watch Michigan football next year.
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The last comment was not me.
Anyway thst was by far the most unsatisfacting ending to a season I hsve ever seen, now as a fan Im glad after everything USC has gone through this year they still ended up winning the Rose Bowl ipmroving there BCS record in the past 6 seasons to 5-1, how that was the most boaring national champion ship game I have ever seen.
How great would it have been to see matchups between USC, Georgia, and LSU, thats what I want to see.
Now LSU is the BCS champion, however there was no true dominant team this year, and no true #1
For next year Im going to change my top 5
#1 USC
#2 Georgia
#3 West Va.
#4 Florida
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How about week two in the 2008 season, one of the biggest games of the year USC Ohio St.
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Yeah, they better not wait half the season to kick into gear playing at Virginia in their first game and then coming home to meet Ohio State for their second game of the season. But you have to like that they pretty much take on all comers with their non-conference schedule. They of course have Notre Dame (though down right now) annually (alternating home and away) and generally at least one other game against a team in the upper half of a BCS conference (two in 2008 with Ohis State and Virginia). It cracks me up when I think back to comments like this from USC haters (“tigers” in this case) last September 13 :
“However, its a shame to see that USC doesn’t schedule [at least] one tough non-conference opponents like LSU….”
(I assumed he meant “at least” since he put in “one”, but maybe he meant the entire schedule as he pluralized “opponents”.)
Regardless, let’s compare LSU’s non-conference schedule to USC’s for the next three years:
2008
USC: @Virginia, Ohio State, Notre Dame
LSU: North Texas, Troy, TBD, Tulane2009
USC: San Jose St, @Ohio State, @Notre Dame
LSU: Appalachian State, Houston, @Tulane, S Miss2010
USC: @Hawaii, Virginia, Notre Dame
LSU: TBD, UL Lafayette, Tulane, TBDSo let’s see (counting ND as a BCS school since they have their own clause in the system), over the next three seasons that’s 7 of 9 non-conference games against BCS schools for USC (4 on the road). And that would be, let me count, uhmmm, let’s see, ah, ZERO of 12 non-conference games against BCS schools (pending the three TBD) for LSU (ONE on the road). Damn, it is a shame USC doesn’t schedule a tough non-conference schedule like LSU does….
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How about USC beating UCLA 72-63 in basketball we are just owning the Bruins this years. We lead UCLA in the Lexus Guantlet 35-10.
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Man I cant find any USC Ohio st. tickets for next season. Can anybody tell me where to find them
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Hey, look what I saw on ebay – this
is an amazing collectible!
USC Signed Football–24 Signatures
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Hey,tigran, u realize that LSU doesnt play a tough non-conference schedule because we play in the hardest league right? And also, this year we have to go to Auburn and Florida. Also, when the AP pole has LSU #1 and UGA #2 along with Tennessee#12 Florida #13 and Auburn #15, along with Kentucky, Mississippi State, and Arkansas recieving votes ( after losing the #25 spot ), you realize that maybe the SEC gets respect because they are good. The Pac 10 has USC #3, ASU #16, OU # 23, and OSU # 25 and no others recieving votes. WOW, maybe the SEC is good? Also, look @ LSU’s schedule, a tough UGA team, @Florida, Miss St. (coming off a better year for once lol), Auburn, Alabama,@ S.C., all teams who will probably be ranked when LSU plays them. Goes to show, LSU doesnt need a tough out of conference game because all SEC teams have it bad enough already. UGA or LSU could have been the the national championship. I’m in favor of a playoff system, but i feel it would end up like the Womens NCAAB tournament, when the actual Nat. Championship game took place b/n Tennessee and LSU in the Semis. They would make sure 2 teams from the same conference, even if they are the 2 best in the country, would never play each other all because of T.V. ratings and MONEY
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Hey,tigran, u realize that LSU doesnt play a tough non-conference schedule because we play in the hardest league right? And also, this year we have to go to Auburn and Florida. Also, when the AP pole has LSU #1 and UGA #2 along with Tennessee#12 Florida #13 and Auburn #15, along with Kentucky, Mississippi State, and Arkansas recieving votes ( after losing the #25 spot ), you realize that maybe the SEC gets respect because they are good. The Pac 10 has USC #3, ASU #16, OU # 23, and OSU # 25 and no others recieving votes. WOW, maybe the SEC is good? Also, look @ LSU’s schedule, a tough UGA team, @Florida, Miss St. (coming off a better year for once lol), Auburn, Alabama,@ S.C., all teams who will probably be ranked when LSU plays them. Goes to show, LSU doesnt need a tough out of conference game because all SEC teams have it bad enough already. UGA or LSU could have been the the national championship. I’m in favor of a playoff system, but i feel it would end up like the Womens NCAAB tournament, when the actual Nat. Championship game took place b/n Tennessee and LSU in the Semis. They would make sure 2 teams from the same conference, even if they are the 2 best in the country, would never play each other all because of T.V. ratings and MONEY
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Hey,tigran, u realize that LSU doesnt play a tough non-conference schedule because we play in the hardest league right? And also, this year we have to go to Auburn and Florida. Also, when the AP pole has LSU #1 and UGA #2 along with Tennessee#12 Florida #13 and Auburn #15, along with Kentucky, Mississippi State, and Arkansas recieving votes ( after losing the #25 spot ), you realize that maybe the SEC gets respect because they are good. The Pac 10 has USC #3, ASU #16, OU # 23, and OSU # 25 and no others recieving votes. WOW, maybe the SEC is good? Also, look @ LSU’s schedule, a tough UGA team, @Florida, Miss St. (coming off a better year for once lol), Auburn, Alabama,@ S.C., all teams who will probably be ranked when LSU plays them. Goes to show, LSU doesnt need a tough out of conference game because all SEC teams have it bad enough already. UGA or LSU could have been the the national championship. I’m in favor of a playoff system, but i feel it would end up like the Womens NCAAB tournament, when the actual Nat. Championship game took place b/n Tennessee and LSU in the Semis. They would make sure 2 teams from the same conference, even if they are the 2 best in the country, would never play each other all because of T.V. ratings and MONEY
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sorry for 3 posts, didnt think it was working so i kept pressing post : ) my bad
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dude tigran usc is a football school. usc is better than ucla in football. but not basketball ,basketball is the sport ucla is good at. sure u had a good season but a couple good season isnt yet a dynasty but usc is preety good at basketball ill admit it
how bout oj mayo
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