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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

[Rocky]

I read a fun article today discussing how everybody is bitching about the Louisville / West Virginia game, because of all the yards and points scored.

Somethin like 78 total points, and ~1100 total yards between the teams.


The author said if Louisville's helmets had longhorns on them, nobody would complain about the game, and if West Virginia was bearing crimson and gold -


Cause if you recall the "greatest game of football ever played" from the National Champsionship, you saw ~1050 total yards, and 79 total points....and nobody complained about defenses then.

[Throwdown]

I read a fun article today discussing how everybody is bitching about the Louisville / West Virginia game, because of all the yards and points scored.

Somethin like 78 total points, and ~1100 total yards between the teams.
The author said if Louisville's helmets had longhorns on them, nobody would complain about the game, and if West Virginia was bearing crimson and gold -
Cause if you recall the "greatest game of football ever played" from the National Champsionship, you saw ~1050 total yards, and 79 total points....and nobody complained about defenses then.

no shit.

the hypocrisy in college football media is utterly astounding


they'll basically do whateve it takes to credit the old guard or discredit the new guard


Hey, Texas won 42-38
what great offense!

Hey, Louisville won 42-38
what poor defense!

[Aaron]

Hey, Texas won 42-38
what great offense!

Hey, Louisville won 42-38
what poor defense!

Actually, your analogy is still flawed. Louisville more or less dominated West Virginia and scored two non-offensive touchdowns in the third quarter to put it away. The fact that they only won by 10 (44-34) is misleading as the game was nowhere near that close. I'm surprised you didn't watch it.

And, sorry, I don't care that they're undefeated and in a BCS conference. The BCS gets shit wrong all the time (1998, 2001, 2003, 2004) and, from where I'm sitting, Louisville does not deserve a shot at the national championship game over the teams I listed.

Not that it matters, really, because Ohio State will probably roll all over whoever they play.

[Throwdown]

Actually, your analogy is still flawed. Louisville more or less dominated West Virginia and scored two non-offensive touchdowns in the third quarter to put it away. The fact that they only won by 10 (44-34) is misleading as the game was nowhere near that close. I'm surprised you didn't watch it.

And, sorry, I don't care that they're undefeated and in a BCS conference. The BCS gets shit wrong all the time (1998, 2001, 2003, 2004) and, from where I'm sitting, Louisville does not deserve a shot at the national championship game over the teams I listed.

Not that it matters, really, because Ohio State will probably roll all over whoever they play.

i watched the game. it was excellent, as i hope tonight's game will be.

i just used a general example to show that two identical scores can lead to two entirely different mindsets by the media.

UT got praised after the rose bowl for one of the greatest games ever played. i agree - it was a great game - although i think the 05 rose was actually a better game.

Louisville pretty much shuts down WVU and they get no love.

it's kinda like the UT/TTU game. you can see it one of two ways. UT struggled to beat an unranked .500 team by only four, or UT came back from 21 down and shut em out in the second half.

all depends on what kinda spin you want to put on it