Saturday, December 02, 2006
Controversy
Let it begin boys. Now most people are biased either for or against UF. But how do you decide and back up which team "deserves" to go. Both with one loss on the road to a good opponent. UF SOS #1, UM #3. I hate that we have decide who else goes to the big dance by analyzing close wins and close losses. The BCS sucks bad but when you have people deciding who goes problems will always arise. And lets say Michigan played a game this weekend instead of doing nothing that would change everything as well. I know UF fans will make there case and they have a good one but so does Michigan. Either way a good team is getting screwed.
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I have been more impressed with the way Michigan has played and they almost beat OSU. I guess I would have to go with Michigan. But I am biased, because....I HATE THE GATORS!
May I still call it staying neutral if I say it doesn't really matter who plays OSU, because they will just get embarrassed anyway? It seems to me that the options are to lose the national championship or win a BCS bowl. I'd take the W and end it w/ a 13-1 record, but maybe that's just me. No offense boys but UF is nowhere close to OSU or Michigan.
(Don't mind me though, I gave up on this season a long time ago and am only commenting to feel involved).
"No offense, but UF is nowhere close to OSU or Michigan." HAHAHAHA.
12-1. SEC Champions.
Hardest schedule (opponents have a .634 winning percentage).
More total touchdowns then Michigan.
More offensive production per play than Michigan.
More top 25 defensives played than Michigan.
Oh yeah...and the #4 ranked scoring defense (Michigan is #9).
Hmmm, I guess your right, we don't belong.
Look at the other side of this argument, guys... if Michigan plays and beats OSU, then what does that mean for OSU?? They split a season series and somehow Michigan comes out on top??? How is that fair to OSU? did the first game count for nothing?
Also, my argument for Florida remains the same... I fail to see how a team that did not win their conference title can play for the national championship! Give me a break BCS!
Ever since Oklahoma played USC for the championship after they lost the Big 12 Championship, I have no idea why that stipulation wasn't added to the BCS. If you are not even your conference champion, how are you playing for the national championship. They have a rule for everything else it seems, why not that.
And just because OSU looked really good on Nov 18, doesn't mean they are going to look that good on Jan 8
I can't believe I am saying this...but everything worked out for the Gators to have a shot. A rematch between OSU/Mich would be a mistake, and I am with the other Gators here in saying if you don't win your own conference...how can you be a national champion?! And if Mich did win this game...how can they be champion when OSU beat them before? I think a rematch would cause too much controversy. Let UF play for the title...everything worked out for them this year.
BUT for the record...I still don't like the Gators;)
Agreed Leighton. For the record, an FSU fan actually admitting UF should have a title shot deserves a pat on the back for you. Way to look past the biased-ness.
OSU and Mich have already played. And if you watched tv at all during the week (possibly 2 weeks) preceeding the game, it was hyped as-much-or-more than the BCS championship game. I even recall hearing an anouncer (sp?) saying, "This is basically the national championship game between the two best teams in the nation."
So why on earth wouldn't you give another team (anyone but Mich) a chance to play OSU? This way we will have an undisputed champion. If they rematch and Mich wins, that is by no means undisputed. My $0.02 but of course I don't get a vote.
So here's my question, if FSU beats UCLA in their bowl game, that must mean that FSU could beat USC and should be playing in the national championship game, right?? j/k of course
I like your logic Jae. I guess that means that Auburn should be playing for the title rather than UF. J/K
I also thought Eric's post is humorous. I guess that FSU should be crowned as the 1996 National Champions since the Gators beat them on a rematch after FSU had already beaten them earlier that year.
This whole discussion is making me very bitter considering that Auburn did not lose a game in 2004 and only had one close win, but they still did not get a shot while a UF team that Auburn beat may get a chance. That is complete CRAP!
I think the thing (in the SEC at least) is that any one team can beat any other team given the loads of talent on both sides of the ball. It is the team that is able to navigate through the season the best (not the x-beat-y-who-beat-z argument) that deserves the shot at the best navigator from the other conferences.
PS: I heart college football.
In any sport, but particularly college football, it takes almost as much luck as talent to win a championship... I mean, just look at the shape of the ball that they play with, when that thing hits the ground there's no saying which way that ball is going bounce. And so while its premature to call the Gators a team of destiny, since the new rankings are five and half hours away, they are definitely a team of fortune (just found out they passed Michigan in the coaches poll, if they pass the Wolverines in the Harris Poll, I think they are gonna be in.) So while Jae calls it navigation, I just call it a mixture of talent, luck, and big time plays, which the Gators have had all season except for one night in Auburn.
As a take yet another long break from my work to ponder this BCS mess, I just want to say Go GATORS!!!!!
We deserve to go. If we are champions of college football's toughest conference we deserve to be playing for the national championship. It only makes sense. As for Michigan being a better team and more impressive, well how would they have looked if they had our schedule? Either way they ALMOST beat OSU but the bottom line is they didn't. Let the Gators have a chance to show what they can do! Afterall the only way to crown a true champion would be if the Gators get to go.
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