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Georgia is going to get stomped by Florida and Alabama's best defensive player (nose tackle Cody) will be neutralized by Florida's shotgun spread. Look for Florida to be the 1-loss SEC team in the picture.

All of Florida's wins are by 23+ points. Their only loss is a fluky one. They lost by 1-point despite outgaining Ole Miss. They lose because of a blocked extra point and several fumbles. Florida looks like the most dominant team in the nation right now. USC barely beat Arizona. Penn State struggled to beat the national whipping boy known as OSU. Texas benefitted from some questionable calls to be Oklahoma State and Alabama has scraped by some teams that Florida embarassed (example: Bama beat Kentucky 17-14, Florida beat Kentucky 63-5).

Good work as always.

Agree accross the board - I actually looked up the interconference record making an alppes to apples comparison. When you factor in how the teams finished in their own conference compared to how their opponent finished in another, there is no justification to forgive a loss based on which conference a team came from.

USC makes it interesting.

If USC and Or St win out, technically most would have USC #2 in the PAC 10 - it is hard to justify a slot in the title game when you didn't win 1 of the major 6 conferences.

It won't come up this year, but there is a question of rematches between teams that already played in the regular season. With so few inter-conference games, I don't think there are more than enough unknowns to justify a do-over of a regular season game.

On the plus side for USC, they won a game between 2 teams that were expected to finish in the top 1/3 of a major conference, will likely finish in the top 1/3 of their conference, and when the game was shceduled 4+ years ago, both teams were expected to be in the top 1/3 when they met (as opposed to scheduling a team who happened to turn their program around). I don't know that there were any other inter-conference games this year between the major6 that fit this bill on all 3 axis.

If we don't give USC the nod over other teams with the same record, we lose the right to complain about the lack of quality interconference games, SOS, etc. It shouldn't forgive a loss, but it should get the nod when we see 2 teams with the same record.

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I am wholly for reserving 1 spot in the BCS for a team outside the major 6, but I am fully against them in the title game.

This is a log, not a comment, but in short
- They don't have the ponies. I think the best single year recruiting class from 2002 to 2007 is ranked around 42nd, behind 41 teams from the major conferences.
- We hear about their wins but their losses are not cnsidered newsorthy. In the end they are in the neighborhood of 3-63 against conference champs (well below the average). In 2007 they combined for 1 bowl win over the major 6 despite playing their top conference teams against teams from the major 6 that finished much lower.

These combine to show they likely wouldn't win any of the major conferences, nor would they be expected to win a major conference any time soon. This makes it tough to argue them into the title game.

It's a shame that the Longhorns have to run the table because if they were to lose they wouldn't have a chance at a BCS game. To late in the season to make up the drop in the ratings. The have already beaten 3 ranked teams in a row and Texas Tech is coming up to make it 4. Lets not forget the rivalry game against the Aggies. These has to be taken into consideration.

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Originally posted 05:07 PM ET  10.26 by Total Package

It's a shame that the Longhorns have to run the table because if they were to lose they wouldn't have a chance at a BCS game. To late in the season to make up the drop in the ratings.

The have already beaten 3 ranked teams in a row and Texas Tech is coming up to make it 4. Lets not forget the rivalry game against the Aggies. These has to be taken into consideration.

They don't need to run the table, just not lose the title game - win the conference and they are in a BCS game.

If you meant to reference just the title game, try as I might, I can't generate sympathy for a team with a loss missing the title game to undefeated teams. I also can't generate sympathy for a team being passed over in the title game for another team with the same record who scheduled and defeated a non-conference opponent from the top of the other major 6 conferences.

I do disagree with the pollsters ranking and putting in teams that finished 3rd in their conference because the 2nd place team had a late season loss in the title game.

I do not put much credence in early and mid season rankings (or any rankings for all that matters). The pollsters don't have a great track record. There aren't a sufficient number of inter-conference match ups to get a good feel for the relative strength between conferences.

The Tide looks to play well against LSU given their performance on the road this year. Watch our for Miss. State. AL has always played poorly in that game.

The Tide looks to play well against LSU given their performance on the road this year. Watch our for Miss. State. AL has always played poorly in that game.

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Texas-Yes, if they run the table there are unquestionably the best team in the land. Maybe of last ten years, because I cannot remember a team having to play Four straight top Eight teams.

Alabama- Miss State runs the ball well, and in the upsets that Sly Croom has engineered, they all had the same plot line. Run the ball, play good defense, get a turnover and win 17-14 or something to that effect. Alabama may have too much power though.

Florida-I'm glad that they have gotten the RBs in the game plan more. Tim Tebow is great, but is not as good when everyone knows that he is going to get the ball. If Florida wins the East, then beats Alabama it would be an interesting to see who would get in...might have to write about that as it becomes closer.