The number one team in the country

Rightupinthere · Post by **Rightupinthere** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:33 am

OSU belongs in top spot and should be playing for the king of that exclusive sandbox (BC$). I don't know who exactly deserves to be the other team because an argument could be made for several. My pick would have been Oklahoma, but only because I think it would have been a heck of a game.

OSU/LSU. Don't ask me who will win this one, but my gut is going with LSU's offense spreading out OSU's youthful D and winning by a TD.

tiznow · Post by **tiznow** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:04 am

redskins4ever wrote:Hey smart guy...

Utah actually had a formidable schedule when they went in and destroyed a weak Pitt team.

Utah beat BCS teams Texas AM and Arizona, and I'd venture to say that the MWC is a bit better than the WAC.

Be that as it may, Boise State also was a team that I could see winning against oklahoma last year, based on their schedule, talent and the fact that they don't need crooked refs like Hawaii to win games.

Do a little reserach about Hawaii and the refs, and you'll see that those refs are all bit a little to familiar with the program. How else do you get away with high fiving a ref in the washington game on Saturday? Who else in college football does that?

The officiating on the island is very favorable to the Warriors. How it doesn't get looked at is interesting. Anyone remember a few years back when UC played there and there was a fight after the game?

Falcons4Life · Post by **Falcons4Life** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:02 am

And it is pretty impressive for OSU to have played in three national championship games in two years, as your post says, but this will be three in 6 years and in case you forgot they beat Miami in one of those games.

Alright...I will admit I went overboard on the schedule being easier than ours, but for the above sentence I was referring to Football 2006, Basketball 2007, Football 2007.

Falcons4Life · Post by **Falcons4Life** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:03 am

...and though the score showed that they beat Miami, it was far from a victory they achieved on their own without help from the zebras.

footballguy51 · Post by **footballguy51** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:10 am

Falcons4Life wrote:...and though the score showed that they beat Miami, it was far from a victory they achieved on their own without help from the zebras.

It's okay, after that game Miami hasn't been the same, and I for one am happy about that.

For those of you saying Hawaii doesn't play anybody, did anybody read the news bit awhile back when they revealed the couple of big name schools that backed out of games against Hawaii, hence making them schedule the rinky-dink teams they did play?

Honestly, I think the game should have been either OSU/Georgia or OSU/Kansas. How LSU jumped over those two is amazing, and in my own personal views (which you may or may not agree with), it's because LSU is currently considered America's Team because of Katrina. If a typhoon took out half of the Hawaiian Islands, then I bet Hawaii would have been given a better look for the Championship game, or at least ranked a little higher.

BGFalconfromCincy · Post by **BGFalconfromCincy** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:18 am

footballguy51 wrote:
Falcons4Life wrote:...and though the score showed that they beat Miami, it was far from a victory they achieved on their own without help from the zebras.
It's okay, after that game Miami hasn't been the same, and I for one am happy about that.

For those of you saying Hawaii doesn't play anybody, did anybody read the news bit awhile back when they revealed the couple of big name schools that backed out of games against Hawaii, hence making them schedule the rinky-dink teams they did play?

Honestly, I think the game should have been either OSU/Georgia or OSU/Kansas. How LSU jumped over those two is amazing, and in my own personal views (which you may or may not agree with), it's because LSU is currently considered America's Team because of Katrina. If a typhoon took out half of the Hawaiian Islands, then I bet Hawaii would have been given a better look for the Championship game, or at least ranked a little higher.

I thought Virginia Tech was now "America's Team"

Its simple why LSU jumped both Georgia and Kansas, the pollsters didn't want to make the same mistake they did in 2001 when they allowed a Nebraska team that didn't even win their own division make it to the title game, only to get their asses handed to them by Miami. Bottom line is whoever ended up being number 2, someone was going to be pissed about it, and Virginia Tech and Oklahoma have better cases then Kansas and Georgia

footballguy51 · Post by **footballguy51** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:06 pm

OSU vs Hawaii...anybody with me on that one? I was all for Boise St. being in the title game last year, and I think if a team is undefeated, they should be in it. If they lose horribly, then they do, but they deserve their shot.

tekekini · Post by **tekekini** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:22 pm

Falcons4Life wrote:
And it is pretty impressive for OSU to have played in three national championship games in two years, as your post says, but this will be three in 6 years and in case you forgot they beat Miami in one of those games.

Alright...I will admit I went overboard on the schedule being easier than ours, but for the above sentence I was referring to Football 2006, Basketball 2007, Football 2007.

So you are saying OSU had an easy schedule last year?

They are the only team to EVER have to play a #2 ranked team three times in one season (#2 texas, #2 Michigan, #2 Florida). Then they played a top 20 Penn State, and Iowa (on the road).

Basketball 2007? OSU has played #21 Syracuse, #1 NC, #15 Butler, they still have Florida and Tennessee on the schedule and the Big Ten schedule.

Peregrinner · Post by **Peregrinner** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:20 am

I think by "Football 2006, Basketball 2007, Football 2007" he was referring to the three NC games (his post where he said "You may have gotten to three Nat. Champs. in two years"), not years in which he was questioning their strength of schedule.

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:10 pm

tekekini wrote:
Falcons4Life wrote:
And it is pretty impressive for OSU to have played in three national championship games in two years, as your post says, but this will be three in 6 years and in case you forgot they beat Miami in one of those games.

Alright...I will admit I went overboard on the schedule being easier than ours, but for the above sentence I was referring to Football 2006, Basketball 2007, Football 2007.
So you are saying OSU had an easy schedule last year?

They are the only team to EVER have to play a #2 ranked team three times in one season (#2 texas, #2 Michigan, #2 Florida). Then they played a top 20 Penn State, and Iowa (on the road).

Basketball 2007? OSU has played #21 Syracuse, #1 NC, #15 Butler, they still have Florida and Tennessee on the schedule and the Big Ten schedule.

And they should. Sheet, OSU is the biggest Athletic dept in America...and if they're so great, they should be playing the best teams, right?

BTW, OSU did lose to Findlay.

takeoffeh · Post by **takeoffeh** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:52 am

OSU vs Hawaii?? I'm with you on that Footballguy51. I think if a DI team is undefeated, then they deserve the game. People will argue that Hawaii would get it handed to them. Maybe? Maybe not? Let them find out. Anything can happen. If someone were to tell me 5 years ago that Mizz would be a top ranked team, I would not have believed them. Anything can happen.