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Game Thread BCS National Championship Game: tOSU 24, LSU 38 (final)

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sluTiger;1035272; said:
OSU really needs to stop obsessing about last year's lost. Florida just was a better team...
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[FONT=helvetica, arial]I Wanna Go Back to Ohio State [/FONT]
[FONT=helvetica, arial]I wanna go back to Ohio State
To old Columbus town,
To the stadium to hear the band,
By far the finest in the land,
I wanna go back to Ohio State
To old Columbus town,
I wanna go back,
I gotta go back,
To Ohio
Ohio, Ohio
The hills send back the cry [O - H!]
We're here to do or die [I - O!]
Ohio, Ohio
We'll win the game or know the reason why!
And when we win the game, we'll buy a keg of booze!
And we'll drink to old Ohio,
'Til we wobble in our shoes!
Ohio, Ohio
We'll win the game or know the reason why!


OSU was been playing this song in some form since 1906. I think in a weird way this has something to do with it. That game is hard won to understand from our perspective.
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sandgk;1035409; said:
Nutriaitch - that mathematical weighting is exactly what the computer programs did for the BCS polls. Of course, there was a huge hue and cry when some sacred cows in the college football world found out that a few lines of code and a Pentium chip had rated your entire season as a walk in the park. So, the SOS was ditched as an explicit component in the BCS (and now only plays a diluted role as a portion of the overall computer polls, within their calculation).
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That's one of the biggest problems with the BCS. They're proactive instead of reactive. They took the '03 situation, and figured out what kept USC out, and changed that so they would be let in (SOS, more weight to human polls, Quality win component). I agree, that a consensus #1 should not be left out of the title game, and USC should have been in there, but what the powers that be failed to think of is this: What if this same scenario plays out (3 teams with equal records), but all 3 win their conference (biggest knock on OU in '03)? Then for some reason, they were stunned that it happened again! Same 3 conferences (except all unbeaten instead of all 1 loss), but we're supposed to be happy because the humans guessed who was 1 and 2 and agreed on it?

By removing so much of the computer weights, they redcuced the majority of what little objectivity was there. Up until last year, humans for the most part, vote teams in the order they lose. If you don't lose, you don't drop. The computers calculate who you lost to, home or road. They don't care what the date of your loss was. Example: LSU smoked Va. Tech in September. It took forever, and one crazy season for the Hokies to climb back up the polls (even though they stayed pretty high in the computers). If that game (same outcome) happened in November, they may not even be a top 10 team in the human polls right now, let alone a top 5. The people think losing to the #2 team in the country in November is unforgiveable, but it's okay to do that in September. Before '04, the computers were strong enough to balance that out.
 
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Lockup;1035407; said:
My bigger point was is that ultimently it means nothing. I can't think of another sport where people argue about the strength of a particular teams schedule on any kind of consistent basis.
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I disagree, it means as much or more than other criteria. As for the argueing about SOS in other sports, that's because other sports have playoffs which make it a mute point.
 
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sportsline

In LSU's Zehyoue and family, a story for the season

BATON ROUGE, La. -- There's this picture, or maybe it's just a family memory. Five-year-old Anthony Zehyoue, as happy as any kid could be in the middle of a civil war.

"I struggled the most as far as starvation is concerned," he said. "I was very emaciated. At one point, they weren't too sure about me making it. They could count every single rib in my body."
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Les Miles on Zehyoue: 'He's going to do some wonderful things in his life.' (Steve Franz/LSU Sports Information)

It's all a chuckle now because Anthony Zehyoue is a full-grown man in his early 20s. In four years at LSU, he has played only a handful plays. But that's hardly the story, because that day in that civil war was 17 years ago, halfway around the world in Liberia and, see, there was this priest ...

"Everything was serendipitous," said another Anthony Zehyoue. This one is the LSU defensive end's father, the one they call Big Anthony. A flat-out hero at age 54, having rescued his family from a civil war in his native country almost two decades ago.
Rescue, yes, but he had help, literally from God. This is LSU's, maybe college football's, Christmas Story. Like we said, there was this priest. The senior Zehyoue (Zay-yew) has lost touch with John Thompson over the years. But by serendipitous, he means that in 1990, Fr. Thompson was a missionary who just happened to be from New Orleans and just happened to be returning home in a few days for vacation when he met Annie Zehyoue in Liberia.

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Just got my two BCS tix, and I'm looking at them now. :yow2::banger: The guy I bought them from got amnesia about the original deal:shake: , and made me buy two Sugar bowl tix as a prereq to selling me the two BCS tix. I hurt my wrist writing the check out so fast.

Anyway, I guess that means I'm going to ::shudder::: root for the mangy poodles from Athens in about a week.

Adult beverages? I insist on buying some for my esteemed Buckeye compatriots prior to the Great Dissapointment....and even after.:biggrin:
Join you I must in New Orleans. :beer::groove:
 
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Ciron Black is a cool dude

I am sure your guys do these types of thing for the community. This is what is great about college football.

Two days ago one of my patient's came into my clinic to tell me about a little boy named Michael V. Conger. Michael is in St. Jude's hospital battling cancer. Three days ago he received this blog on his web site.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2007 10:19 PM, CST Hey Michael, I recently saw your story and wanted to have the honor to write in your guest book. My name is Ciron Black. I am the left tackle for the tigers football team, im also number 70 and I saw you wearing that jersey number, that's a great number by the way:). You know some people see us as heroes because of how we play but the truth is people like yourself are the real heroes. I see all the small problems I face are nothing compared to the hardships that you may go through. God has a plan for all of us and for some reason he put it on my heart to write you tonight...if it is at all possible I would love to talk to you. My number is #%$^%^&$#% anytime day or night if you need someone to talk to. Hang in there buddy and just know that anything is possible through Christ. Your Friend, Ciron Black

P.S. I would love to write your name on my wrist tape as I get ready to take the field on Jan. 7th for the national championship. Let me know if that is ok.

Michael's family, who lives in Prairieville, called and met up with Ciron to take pictures and thank him for his support. Ciron gave them a football signed by the entire team. I don't know about you, but this is the kind of player I want representing in the NC.
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