Naming every game and directing the band in a stirring rendition of "Rocky Top" doesn't make the SEC great. They play each other and stay away from the rest of the country citing their "overly difficult" conference schedule as an excuse to schedule cupcakes, when they know that the rest of the country needs about 4 hrs of film work to decipher the slew of high school offenses these teams trot out there week-to-week.
Last years reps fell right on their faces. LSU got a Miami team that just mailed it in, UGA lost the SUGAR BOWL (SEC home game) to WV??? Auburn got thumped by Wisco, and this same Fla team needed some serious home-cookin' to win the Outback by one score over Iowa.
LSU is the only team in the last 5 yrs to play well in the BCS, and they will probably look good again drawing ND. Michigan beats LSU by 10, but we'll never know.
The BCS is run by a guy from the SEC for this cycle, Meyer whined and bitched for 3 weeks to get the polls to flip, and the pollsters should be ashamed of themselves backing out at the last minute when they saw the rematch was a real possibility. Public vote and all the roaches ran for cover. Tressel even ABSTAINED?!?!
I'll buy the conference champ argument, and that Mich-OSU game was not really a 3 pt "classic" b/c of some uncharacteristic ball security issues by OSU, so I truly believe FL is deserving of the shot at the title, but these freakin' SEC fans are just like actual politicians......one vote over the majority doesn't qualify as a "mandate" and b/c your team lucked out and got the slot doesn't make your conference "the greatest."
The real winners are us fans!! At least the BCS functioned well enough (thanks Bruins) to give us a simplified Fla/Mich argument and not the goat-screw of USC/Mich/Fla. The process is a joke.
Buckeyes minus WHATEVER. They win this game by 17 because they do not screw up in big games....a history that FL cannot draw on. One or two years too soon for this mistake prone group.
See you SEC guys in march for another pissing contest:sadwave:
