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I thought this was pretty funny/clever

SI.com - SI On Campus - Campus Quick Slants: Comparing the BCS teams to professional wrestlers - Wednesday December 5, 2007 12:36PM

Campus Quick Slants

Comparing the BCS teams to professional wrestlers

By Ty Hildenbrandt

OHIO STATE - Jake "The Snake" Roberts

Has there been a bigger snake in college football this season? Calmly ... quietly ... the Buckeyes have slithered their way to the top of the polls -- not once, but twice -- and have now unhinged their jaws and swallowed up a spot in the BCS Championship. The only thing missing from Jim Tressel's neck is Damien, Roberts' giant Burmese python.

LSU -- Ric Flair

Though lacking the platinum hair or "Nature Boy" moniker, LSU has been impossible to kill and college football's ultimate opportunist in 2007, using plenty of risky eye pokes and testicular claws to scrape its way back into contention.

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Zurp;1025414; said:
Many of you LSU fans seem to be pretty classy so far, so I'll ask you.. what do you think of these "there is no national champion this year" comments?
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At the beginning of this season, I could have told you that these were the most stacked teams this year, in alphabetical order: Florida, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, USC.

Because all of these teams play in major conferences, had any of these teams finished with the best record this year, I would have had no doubt that they were a legit national champion contender in the NC game.

Of those 9 teams:

--One team (Ohio State) finished with only one loss, the only team in college to do so besides 11-1 Kansas.

--Four teams (Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, USC) finished with only two losses, the only teams in college football to do so besides 11-2 VT, 10-2 BYU, 10-2 Boise State, 11-2 Mizzou, 10-2 WVU, 10-2 ASU.

So to me, there is absolutely no doubt that Ohio State is THE legit #1 team in the NC game. The only real issue to consider was: "Who should be the #2 team that gets the chance to beat #1 Ohio State for the title?" It should have gone to Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, or USC. Georgia didn't win their own conference, so that would be lame to let them play #1 Ohio State for the championship. That left LSU, Oklahoma, and USC.

LSU had more quality wins that Oklahoma or USC. LSU beat Florida and Tennessee. Oklahoma beat Texas. USC didn't beat any major powerhouse this year.

You could also look at the 2nd-tier powerhouses that they played. LSU had VT, Auburn, Arkansas, Alabama, and South Carolina. I doubt that USC or Oklahoma beat as many 2nd-tier powerhouses.

As for their losses, LSU's losses weren't as bad as the losses that Oklahoma and USC had. LSU lost to 7-5 Kentucky and 8-4 Arkansas. Oklahoma lost to 6-6 Colorado and 8-4 Texas Tech. USC lost to 4-8 Stanford and 8-4 Oregon. In other words, LSU is the only team that lost to teams that had winning records. Neither Colorado or Stanford was ranked at any time this year. Kentucky spent 8 weeks in the Top 25 (and they were already in the Top 25 when they beat LSU). In addition, Kentucky actually has some superstars on their team this year. Who does Colorado or Stanford have?

Point is, it seemed pretty obvious to me that Ohio State would be #1 and LSU would be #2. When I found out the the AP, Coaches, and Harris poll all agreed with me, I wasn't surprised at all.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1024949; said:
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"Squeeze ma titty if ya think the dawgs'll win!...and help support our denture whitening cream boycott...!!"
 
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Jaxbuck;1025743; said:
Seriously, that is the chief executive and leader of the state legislature of one of the 50 United States of America.:shake:

I keep saying it over and over, Lincoln fucked up. He should have just let them go.
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Well now that's a little bit over the top, it's not as if he has the issues of this past Governor of New Jersey:

Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, also known by the courtesy title of Lord Cornbury (November 28, 1661 - March 31, 1723) was Governor of New York and New Jersey and perhaps best known for the claims of him cross-dressing while in office.
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From the Bershire Histories
As a return for his desertion of King James II, William III appointed Cornbury Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of of New York and New Jersey in 1701. He travelled to America where he apparently gained a reputation as the 'worst governor Britain ever imposed on an American colony'. He supposedly took bribes, plundered the public treasury and is said to have spent half of his time dressed in women's clothes.
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The pearl of an Earl in his finery ...

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Good article on how the Buckeyes are responding to the criticism.

SI.com - Writers - Austin Murphy: Buckeyes says SEC doesn't have monopoly on team speed - Monday December 17, 2007 4:24PM

Ohio Statement

Hartline tries to quell doubts of Buckeyes' worthiness


COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Don't start with B-Hart.

Don't come around him with your unproven, unscientific assumptions about "collective team speed."

That was among the messages sent by the Ohio State wide receiver at the team's recent pre-bowl media scrum, where it became clear that while the Buckeyes prefer their new, underdog status going into this BCS title game against LSU, they're also sick and tired of hearing they have no business playing in it.

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OregonBuckeye;1031173; said:
Good article [where an OSU WR said:] "Don't come around him with your unproven, unscientific assumptions about 'collective team speed.'"
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Yes, OSU this year probably has more collective team speed than LSU. For example, I found the below stats here on BP. I posted them on Tigerforums, and not surprisingly, the first replies were by delusional Tiger fans claiming that those stats couldn't true. However, reasonable-minded Tiger fans on Tigerforums soon showed up and showed that the below stats are real, that they are based off legit current 40-yard-dash times.


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JohnLSU;1031247; said:
Yes, OSU this year probably has more collective team speed than LSU. For example, I found the below stats here on BP. I posted them on Tigerforums, and not surprisingly, the first replies were by delusional Tiger fans claiming that those stats couldn't true. However, reasonable-minded Tiger fans on Tigerforums soon showed up and showed that the below stats are real, that they are based off legit current 40-yard-dash times.
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Interesting lesson somewhere in that story JohnLSU about how the LSU "collective" reined in it's own - one that is complimentary to the LSU fanbase.

Last year that kind of comparison, with the Buckeyes wearing the lead shoes of course, was raised first by the UF fans on their forums and on here - often without any side-by-side evidence to support the claims at all. Even when faced with a pretty good rundown of the speed versus speed they wouldn't back down.

What I think this ties in to is the general maturity of the respective fans as a collective. LSU fans, I hold, have had the bitter and the sweet - and they have that naturally mixed diet over many decades. With all due respect to Gatorubet, and other good and ardent UF fans who visited before the 2007 game, there were many more examples of the smack talking, shallow and ill-informed among the UF posters last year.

Could this be because, on the College Football timescale their fanbase skews younger, only remembering the recent good times vividly? I could argue that robs them collectively of needed perspective.

By contrast, the only other fanbase I can remember from recent OOC or BCS games that came in with the generally high level of conversation the Tiger fans exhibit was Texas.

That probably also translates to the team as well. There will be, and there is bulletin board material that can fuel the Buckeyes fire. I doubt that we will hear anything dramatic and inflammatory from the Tigers. As it was last year, it is the media that is doing a disservice to the Vegas favorite.
 
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I think I just heard Jim Rome say he has "2008 off." Not totally sure since I had just turned on the radio. If he is away all of next year, that unfortunately means he won't be coming back for his helping of crow wing on 1/8/08.
 
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