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2007 Preseason and Regular season Polls

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Gatorubet;938595; said:
LSU will beat us. Our young defense is - well- young! On the Ole Miss 80 yard TD bomb, the receiver beat a freshman db and the freshman safety took a bad angle. That is not going to be rectified by October 6 in Red Stick. That is not to say that we cannot possibly win. LSU can brain fart and turn it over several times and give us short fields - like in Arizona against y'all. It might be played in a rain storm and our grind it out Tebow running game work better than the LSU speed. But we are NOT a top five team. No way. We lose one or two in regulation, and if we make it back to Atlanta we get schooled in the Dome by LSU.
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You have Urban Meyer, the other team has Les Miles, and you're so quick to throw in the towel?!
 
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Dryden;938238; said:
Between our championship game performance last year, and the creampuff OOC schedule this year, however, I think we're going to need A LOT of help if we're shooting for anything higher than the auto-bid to the Rose Bowl. I think we're going to need some of the teams ahead of us to drop two games, not just one. We're going to get murdered on the SOS equation in the computer polls.

Luckily, teams 1-4, despite looking so dominant in their early games, all have traps in their schedules that could open the door.
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I could be wrong, but I thought that the BCS formula had dropped the SOS portion a couple of years ago.

About this time every year, people start thinking there might multiple no loss teams at the end of regulation. And almost every year that scenerio does not come about. After 1/3 of the season, we are down to 6 teams having a realistic shot at being undefeated. I expect by the time we are 2/3 through we will be talking about 3 teams. If OSU runs the table, I don't think we have too much to worry about. Although I agree that if we are one of three teams undefeated, given what happened last year, we will be outside looking in.

GO BUCKS!
 
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Waller;938790; said:
I could be wrong, but I thought that the BCS formula had dropped the SOS portion a couple of years ago.
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It is no longer a separate, specific component in BCS calculations because it was recognized as being redundant, but it is still inherently used in any computer poll, and to a degree it is a method used by human voters.

So, while strength of schedule has been diminished as a factor, it is still present.

When you look at the SOS formulas, W/L of your opponents and your opponents opponents, we are inheriting the transitive herpes from teams like Minnesota losing to BGSU, and Michigan losing to App State. Our conferences' strongest victory this year might be our own win @ Washington, which may well wind up being a sub .500 team.

I believe a number of one-loss teams are going to be ahead of us, even if we do run the table.
 
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Just thought I'd point out that UCF could be this year's party crasher in the BCS. At 2-1 and their only loss to Texas by 3 points, UCF looks real good right now. Its a long shot, but other teams will fall and UCF should do real well in C-USA this year.
 
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scooter1369;938964; said:
Just thought I'd point out that UCF could be this year's party crasher in the BCS. At 2-1 and their only loss to Texas by 3 points, UCF looks real good right now. Its a long shot, but other teams will fall and UCF should do real well in C-USA this year.
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Don't see that happening unless all of the non-BCS NC game participants have 2 or more losses and we know that won't happen.
 
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Something else I noticed today...

On CollegeFootballNews.com, they now project 2 Big Ten schools getting BCS bids (Ohio State as Big Ten champ and Wisconsin as an at-large).....I think the vacancy was created by Louisville getting beaten. They have Ohio State playing Cal in the Rose Bowl and Wisconsin playing Florida (the other conference getting 2 bids is again the SEC) in the non-championship Sugar Bowl....

interesting to say the least, especially if it holds in a "down year" :biggrin:

Scout.com: 2007 Bowl Projections ... Sept. 23
 
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Jaxbuck;938235; said:
I don't care what the score was saturday, UF can play in that group at the top.

That being said I don't think LSU or UF can come out undefeated because they will have to play each other twice. Reg season and SEC CG.

USC or OU losses in their conferences would be major upsets at this point IMO.

My way too early devils advocate question is, say USC runs the table, OU gets exposed and UF/LSU have one loss each with OSU undefeated. After last years Bowl game and the overall perception of B10 weakness this year, would they vote OSU in over a 1 loss LSU/UF?

At this point I say no.
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If we are undefeated we go to the big game. The scenario that worries me is three undefeated teams. That is the only way we miss out if we are undefeated.
 
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OregonBuckeye;939581; said:
Yeah, but even saying it's a long shot is a bit of a stretch. More like a "I have a chance at having a 3-some with the queen of England and Keira Knightley" type chance. :biggrin:
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OB, you can have QEII I'll just take Keira... but either way it's still a stretch.
 
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GoodLifeSean;939649; said:
OB, you can have QEII I'll just take Keira... but either way it's still a stretch.
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