No. 1? Who cares. Who's No. 3?

Like Notre Dame would beat VMI. P'shaw.

 

MG:

The reason I'd have a hard time seeing KU in the title game is simple and it has nothing to do with KU relative to OSU.

KU lost to Mizzou.

So in the current system Mizzou has "advanced" to the Big 12 title game. Now if Mizziou loses to OU this week then KU shouldn't be allowed into the title game. I'd vote for OU before I would vote for KU.

I'd do so because of the results I've seen on the field. KU hasn't played OU this season but my eye, and results to this point, tell me that Mizzou and OU are superior to KU.

And for the record, I don't think West Virginia deserves to be ranked anywhere near where it is. The Big Least sucks and all of a sudden people are jizzing over the Mountaineers because they beat UConn?

 

She ain't the only one who thinks Hawaii deserves to be in the discussion.

 

i ain't buying it, dawg.

 

If one loss eliminates Kansas, and one-lost West Virginia isn't good enough to play for the title, then by the same logic, Ohio State should not play for it, either.
This year, the national championship will be the most "mythical" it's ever been, which is saying something.
On the other hand, here we are throwing out deserving candidates right and left in college ball, while the evidence of today's NFL games indicate there sure as hell aren't 12 teams that deserve to be in its playoffs.

 

i love that logic -- "they're nearly equal" but if you vote for one over the other, you're a fanboy loser

i loathe the conference that can't count and believe its below the big east in quality and i went to georgia, but i'd still put ohio state ahead of the dogs

uga doesn't deserve to be in the sec title game

and, for those who talk about rankings and when teams were ranked -- not sure if some folks realize this -- some teams may not be ranked now because they aren't as good as they were then because of injuries or other factors. and that said, georgia looked like shit around the time of the tennessee game and then richt and staff made some adjustmets and made them a much better team. when tennessee beat them, they weren't the fourth or fifth best team in the country. now they are. but even if they are, they don't deserve to be in the national title chase, because the vols kicked the shit out of them and south carolina (with jasper or casper or whichever middle linebacker they lost), which was a better team in the second week of the season than in the second-to-last week of the season

 

MG: I agree OSU isn't "deserving" of a spot in the game. I only put them in in my original scenario because, thanks to the nature of the polls, they'd move up and slide in.

 

Then what's the point of having a regular season? Hawaii's the only unbeaten team left in the nation. Why shouldn't they have an opportunity to play for the National Championship?

 

because they play pussies?

 

When teams like Michigan can't be convinced to play them, when teams like Alabama buy out contracts to make sure they don't have to play them.

 

Future Hawaii non-conference skeds:
2008
Aug. 30 at Florida
Sept. 6 WEBER STATE
Sept. 13 at Oregon State
Nov. 29 WASHINGTON STATE
Dec. 6 CINCINNATI
2009
Sept. 5 NAVY
Sept. 12 at Washington State
Sept. 19 at UNLV
Nov. 28 WISCONSIN
2010
Sept. 4 USC
Sept. 25 UNLV
2011
Sept. 17 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN
Sept. 24 at UNLV
Nov. 26 WASHINGTON STATE

They seem to find a way to get decent teams on the schedule (and in their stadium, too). And it's not like anyone expects Hawaii to revert to a 2-9, 3-8 kind of team.

 

No Brennan after this year, and they did have at least one team (Michigan St, maybe) back out this year.