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What are the chances the BCS champion and AP champion won't be the same?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Charlie Brown, Dec 3, 2007.

  1. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    If it is learned directly after the BCS game,that both sides are shaving points to play the under, Glenn Dorsey tackles the OSU sousaphone player before he dots the i and Brutus Buckeye shoots Mike the Tiger, Hawaii or Georgia might have a shot at getting the AP vote
     
  2. Charlie Brown

    Charlie Brown Member

    Herbstreit just said something like "The AP voters will have to take this game into consideration" at the end of USC's bombing of Illinois. He and Brent M. seem to be starstruck by the Trojans. Remembering that Illinois was ranked, what, 17th, is this nonetheless the start of a push for USC to get another AP title if Monday's game is ugly?
     
  3. budcrew08

    budcrew08 Active Member

    This is why there needs to be a PLAYOFF.
     
  4. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Then Herbstreit joins the ranks of the ignorant.
     
  5. I believe he was already there.
     
  6. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    Wait a minute -- Illinois BEAT Ohio State AT Ohio State -- so if LSU doesn't blow Ohio State out it is clearly a fair question to ask.
     
  7. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Not. Gonna. Happen.
     
  8. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    A lot of energy wasted here on the question of what might happen if Hawaii "won big."
     
  9. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    You're right about that. It's always the upsets you never imagine that happen.
     
  10. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    To answer the question of the thread topic, not gonna happen. If USC would have been ranked No. 3 or 4 it possibly could have happened, but not ranked No. 7 and not playing dogshit Illinois.
     
  11. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    The "playing dogshit Illinois" part reminded me of a column I read by SI's Stewart Mandel ...

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/stewart_mandel/12/17/bcs/index.html

    ... Basically, the BCS refused to invoke a clause that would have allowed a swap in selections, allowing Oklahoma to play VaTech in an Orange Bowl that would have featured the Nos. 3- and 4-ranked BCS teams while sending KU to the Fiesta to play West Virginia.

    One problem: "Two sources not directly involved in the decision speculated that the commissioners feared such a matchup might damage the legitimacy of the Ohio State-LSU title game."
     
  12. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    Well, aren't the commissioners right? A playoff needs to happen because otherwise we will be left with shitty bowl matchups for eternity. College football will do everything it can to avoid the split national title ever again.
     
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