Re: Incest
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mpmilton</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Im still baffled by the OSU deserves it whine. You fluked a game to an unranked team. You cry about how Bama got there shot now someone else deserves it. But theres no one else to deserve it this year.
Bama played a good game and lost to a better team. Im fine with saying that, I'm fine with saying we played our best and they should be ranked above us.
So for OSU which is it, you got beat by a better team and should be ranked behind Iowa State, or you gave up in one game and didn't play your fullest all season long and don't deserve it. Which one?
Secondly no one in the SEC claims Vandy and Kentucky can be plowing over Oklahoma and Wisconsin and Oregon and the likes. But I guarantee you I will take them any day over the likes of your lower tier teams, Kansas, Duke, Minnesota, Indiana, Washington State.
And you say how unfair it is for Saban to put OSU 4th and while it may be biased, keep in mine they were 5th the previous week. So how is it so erroneous for him to put them one spot up the next week? </div></div>
Who is whining...just stating my opinion.
If you always ranked teams by how they did against each other ie OSU should be behind ISU then you would never be able to complete a ranking becuase teams lose to other teams, while they beat others who then beat the teams they lost to.
By the way OSU was actually 3rd in the rankings not 5th before the championship week. Look at week 14 rankings. Week 14 rankings had Alabama at #2 and OSU at #3. Alabama was dormant week 15 because they did not make it to the championship game, OSU on the other hand crushed Oklahoma.
At the end of the day I think they both had fairly difficult schedules. We can all say that, ie they all played tough teams and they all played weak teams and I would argue that while Alabama may have played the toughest game, ie LSU, OSU had the harder overall schedule. For that reason I would have put OSU #2 and Alabama #3. You don't have to agree with me, that is your perogative but don't say I'm whining about it becuase to be honest I couldn't give two shits becuase I probably wouldn't have watched the game even if OSU was in it.
They both lost 1 game. Alabama lost to the current #1 so I infer that they are inferior to the #1 team, why rehash it out? Now why would I want to see a rematch of a team that was established as inferior and lost to them? Like I said before if Alabama was in the other division and lost to LSU in the Championship game we would not see this. I will not make a parallel between OSU losing to ISU and theoritcally this other team wouldn't have lost to them etc...cus we would never know unless they played. Why play games if they are decided on paper?
This is my opinion. Anyone can lose 1 game, so OSU lost a game in OT. Noone else was undefeated next to LSU so then I stack up all the 1 loss teams and Bama I would already axe off on my list because they lost to LSU. THe only case I would put Alabama to play in the NCS to play LSU is if they were the only 1 loss team. Other poeples opinion may vary as yours does (I mean you are in Bama so no surprise) but that is my opinion and again you don't have to agree with me. In my mind Alabama already lost to LSU no ands if or buts....you lost and I don't wanna see a rematch of a game I already saw. I would rather another team that had just as tough if not tougher schedule that had one slip up (same amount of losses as Bama) get to play in the NC.
Got a little sidetracked but continuing was I was explaining at the start of the above paragraph I would then look at all the 1 loss teams and I see OSU who arguable had just as hard or harder overall schedule yet the same amount of losses and the rest had easier schedules then I put OSU in. If OSU had a cakewalk of a schedule, I would probably put Bama back in the NCS so I stand corrected about the only way Bama being back in the NCS was if they were the only 1 loss team.
