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I have heard (but not confirmed) that the reason numerous schools denied Louisville's request to get on their schedule is because Louisville was insisting on a home-and-home situation (home-and-away if you prefer that terminology). That's just not very lucrative when Papa John Stadium holds less than 50,000 people.

Obviously something could be worked out financially; but you would think that if Louisville were willing to pony up that kind of dough on a regular basis, they would just build a bigger house.
 
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Louisville plans to expand their stadium in the next couple of years to something like 66-67,000. Oregon has a 50,000 seat stadium and got Oklahoma and Michigan to play home and home. Don't both teams keep their respective home revnue in a home and home series?
 
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DaytonBuck;656757; said:
Louisville plans to expand their stadium in the next couple of years to something like 66-67,000. Oregon has a 50,000 seat stadium and got Oklahoma and Michigan to play home and home. Don't both teams keep their respective home revnue in a home and home series?
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Maybe Louisville is too far NORTH for Southern Boys to play in September. I mean that's almost Ohio for cryin' out loud!
 
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bkochmc;656736; said:
Great post, I agree... all the conferences involved agreed to the rules specified by the BCS and none have a reason to whine unless there is a scenario of more than two unbeatens in the major conferences... won't happen this year.
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Those rules never said that all unbeatens have to be ranked above 1-loss teams... SoS still counts in the computers and there's still a couple games for Louisville to show they are less than BCS-worthy, so that the voters can correct the problem of having a subpar unbeaten team ranked so high. They are, after all, in the conference that the "Big East rule" is named for.
 
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I voted Louisville ahead of West Virginia in the pre-season, and then switched them a few weeks ago after a couple of unimpressive preformances. I now have them at #3 based on merit.

I don't think they're the third best team in the country, but they played a decent non-conference schedule, with Ky, at Kansas State, and Miami. Now those are 2 mediocre-to-average BCS teams and 1 talented one that's under-performing, but it's not like Louisville took on a cake non-conference schedule in order to try to make an undefeated run.

West Virginia's win over Georgia legitimized the Big East in the minds of many, but that was last season and shouldn't be factored into this year's rankings. West Virginia is still significantly over-ranked in my mind, but since they have no shot at the title game, most folks aren't bothering to notice. But how can they be voted ahead of a 1-loss teams like Arkansas, who has actually beaten somebody?

It will be very interesting to see what happens in the polls if Rutgers wins at home tonight.
 
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DaytonBuck;656749; said:
The diffrence to me between the 'ville and WVU is that Louisville actually made an effort to get some good teams on their schedule. When KState and Miami deals were made those probably looked like good matchups at the time. I say give them a shot and let the Big East prove it on the field if they run the table.
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Agreed. Louisville went out and scheduled series with Miami and Kansas State when both were national championship contenders and Top-10 teams. Louisville had the FSU series just a few years back too. They stopped scheduling 1AA creampuffs in 2000. If Louisville wins tonight, they will have most likely beaten nine bowl eligible teams.

There isn't much else they can do.
 
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I have been trashing WVU since last season because of their pathetic non-conf schedule. Louisville does not overly impress me, but their nono-conf inlcudes mid-level teams from the SEC and Big XII and a Miami team that was expected to do great things. They beat them all convincingly. If they add Rutgers scalp to their belt and win out I would give them the nod.

Of course the other part of the equation is "if not them, who?" A one loss SEC team is most often mentioned but none of the three remaining have been consistently dominant. Same goes for USC. ND sucks. I hate rematches so I would argue that Texas - perhaps the most deserving of all teams out there - had their chance. Same for the loser of the OSU-Michigan game.

If they can beat USC convincingly I might plead the case for Cal - a team who is in very much the same situation as Texas without the rematch potential. They lost early with a young QB and on the road to boot in a very tough envrionment - the kind PAC teams rarely see.

Otherwise I am fine with Louisville.
 
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