NCAA 2010 men's football thread

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by Esuohlim

I hate how OSU is a likely nod over both Wisky and MSU despite the fact that OSU lost directly to one and lost indirectly to the other.

This will almost certainly not shake out that way for OSU. As of this posting, Wisconsin is 7 in the BCS, while OSU is 9. Unless Wisconsin loses to Northwestern (unlikely) when OSU and Wisconsin handle their respective business against Northwestern and Michigan, they should stay in the relative same positions. They may go up a slot or 2 each, but if one goes, they both do. In a three way tie (MSU/Wisky/OSU) the tiebreaker for the Rose Bowl bid is the BCS rankings because of the quasi convoluted rock paper scissors situation going on there. Now lets say PSU beats MSU next week (which could happen, after all I think MSU is not who we thought they were) well the tiebeaker then becomes who won the OSU Wisky game.

Any way you slice it, Wisconsin is going to the Rose Bowl

Originally Posted by Esuohlim

And for fuck's sake, a TWO LOSS Alabama still ranked above a one loss MSU and Oklahoma State. I fucking hate college football.

The AP and Coaches poll has the SEC's collective dicks in their collective mouths. It has always been this way, it will always be this way. Yet another reason they don't want a playoff, the SEC would be SO exposed in such a system

[Esuohlim]

Originally Posted by Pentegarn

Now lets say PSU beats MSU next week (which could happen, after all I think MSU is not who we thought they were)

Oh certainly, in terms of pure stats we are having a beyond incredible season, but after sitting down and actually watching us play for the last 12 weeks it's really obvious how absolutely lucky we've been for most of the year. Other than the Iowa blowout there's probably three or four other games we completely didn't deserve to win (ND, Northwestern, yesterday against Purdue definitely comes to mind).

And then, of course, you watch our game against Wisky and we had a handle on it the entire time.

MSU football is so infuriatingly inconsistent. Here we are, 10-1, and I still don't know if we're a good team or not. I've been watching since the John L. Smith years and never have I ever been optimistic about any game going into it. Yesterday's narrowly-missed embarrassment just shows that we have a long way to go before being seriously considered as a football powerhouse.

[Esuohlim]

Originally Posted by Pentegarn

Any way you slice it, Wisconsin is going to the Rose Bowl

You're forgetting the fact that if OSU loses but MSU and Wisky win, MSU wins the tie-breaker. Or SHOULD, at least

Or you're probably not forgetting that fact, because that would mean the fate of our bid lies in the hands of Michigan, and that's too laughable a concept to even take seriously.