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[Throwdown]

i'm absolutely sick of hearing about how amazing the SEC is and how pitiful the Big East is

people need to wake up and realize a few things. until thursday night, the Big East was the only conference in the country with three unbeaten teams. i realize that their shitty teams might be slightly shittier than bottom dwellers from other conferences, but who cares? to quote Colin Cowherd, you can't judge the architectural beauty of Chicago by a few crappy strip malls in the ghetto. you judge by the cream of the crop.

and i know the vaunted SEC has the history, the rivalries, the 100k capacity stadiums, etc, but i also know they have absolutely zero one loss teams. i don't care how good the conference is, if you can't get through it undefeated you have no business playing for a national championship - especially if there are undefeated teams from BCS CONFERENCES. to me, the SEC is nothing more than an above average conference with a bunch of above average teams.

if a one loss Auburn or Texas team goes to the BCS championship over an undefeated Louisville team (who, coincidentally, will have had to beat a #3 undefeated team and another undefeated team at the end of the season) i might seriously contemplate quitting college football. what horseshit. sorry Auburn, you shouldn't have gotten your asses kicked by Arkansas. sorry Texas, you shouldn't have gotten dominated by OSU on national tv. better luck next year. maybe then you might actually not lose a game and be deserving

[nickluto]

Yeah right. The title game is all about ratings and $$$$


it will be a Ohio State/Michigan rematch. no one wants to see a shitty big east team get stomped by the big 10 juggernaut that is OSU this year. If ohio state dominates michigan, even in the title game, at least its a rivalry game which raises the unpredictability factor and allows for a tremendous amount of hype from Nov - Jan

[Aaron]

Yeah right. The title game is all about ratings and $$$$
it will be a Ohio State/Michigan rematch. no one wants to see a shitty big east team get stomped by the big 10 juggernaut that is OSU this year. If ohio state dominates michigan, even in the title game, at least its a rivalry game which raises the unpredictability factor and allows for a tremendous amount of hype from Nov - Jan

I don't think that Pat Forde's analogy really works here.

Last year, Texas pretty much rolled through their entire schedule, beat a top five Ohio State squad on the road and demolished a top ten Texas Tech squad at home. USC didn't slice through their schedule as easily as Texas did, but they still went on the road and beat Oregon, Arizona State, Notre Dame and California.

Whereas the two most impressive wins for Louisville this year, aside from last week's, came against two mediocre to slightly above-average teams: Kansas State and Miami. West Virginia's best win is still Maryland, and the 'Eers struggled against friggin Syracuse and East Carolina.

Louisville does not deserve a shot at the National Championship over Texas, USC, a one-loss SEC team or even the loser of Michigan/Ohio State.

[Throwdown]

Louisville does not deserve a shot at the National Championship over Texas, USC, a one-loss SEC team or even the loser of Michigan/Ohio State.

that's horseshit for two reasons.

1. they'll be undefeated, while the other teams you mentioned have one loss

2. they play in a BCS CONFERENCE. this isn't like the 2004 Utes, which i had no problem not having a chance to play for the title (although i'd like to have seen them play the other undefeated team, Auburn). the Big East is one of the six BCS conferences. want to complain that they aren't as good now that VT and UM left? it doesn't matter. those teams bolted two years ago. i'm sure they had public plans to leave at least 1-2 years before that. that's at least three years the BCS knew about the eventual powerhouse breakup of the Big East, yet the did jack shit about it. they could have easily in 04 removed the Big East from the BCS Alliance when a four loss Pitt team played in the Fiesta, and replaced them with a third at large bid. it was obvious THEN that the conference wasn't on par with the other conferences, yet the BCS gods didn't do a damn thing about it. they got themselves in to this mess, and it'll be a fucking travesty of epic proportions


the real reason why the BCS doesn't want Louisville in the title game is cause they aren't a "name" team and they won't generate as much revenue as a Florida or Texas will. it's pathetic that politics gets in the way of who truly deserves to play for the title game. i don't care if Loiusville's best player wouldn't be first string in the SEC (an actual argument used by someone on espn radio), i don't care if their conference sucks (which it doesn't, if you actually looked in to the Big East), i don't care about how tough the SEC is. Auburn got through it in 2004, where was all the tough talk then? by the way, the teams that both the SEC and the Big East has played, the Big East beat them by a greater margin of victory


and if Rutgers beats Louisville and WVU, Rutgers has every claim to play for the title game