LSU/ARKY GAME

not to be mean but why do you hate LSU? i hate usc because they supposeadly(sp?) won so many nc's.

It all came down to stopping the run. McFadden is an unbeleivable athlete and it's a 2 horse race for the heisman against Tebow. It's a wonder how Ark. has lost so many games with a rushing game that explosive. They are a great team to watch.

LSU got Ark. twice in the goal-line with the double slant and finally Ark. DB jumped the route to knock down the final pass of the game. LSU went to the well too many times on that one.

One of the thoughts I had coming out of that game was Matt Flynn is bad.....Outside of a couple games this year there is no way this guy is a starting QB for the number 1 team in the nation

I dont follow LSU closely but what happened to the two QB system they had working at the beginning of the year? I know Perrilloux got in trouble but is there any other reason he is not on the field. When you starter begins a game 7 for 30 or whatever he was shouldnt you bring in the back up, who is head and shoulders better than your starter?

After watching some of the playcalling and decision making I hope Miles goes to Michigan...It will give the Buckeyes a few more years to lay it to the team up North

Also, McFadden is the real deal. That was the first time this year I have got to sit down and watch him play and there is no way he is not the most explosive and dynamic player in the country.

What about Arkansas taking him out on the 4th and 3 and then again on the game winnning two point conversion. Talk about confidence in your number 2. Felix Jones may be a top 5 back in the nation as well. Like spos21ram said, how have the lost so many games?

As of now, Arkansas, Kentucky and Auburn are not even ranked in the BCS top 25 and will not figure in the BCS picture.

Ohio State is #5, and figures to move up two spots because at least two top four teams will lose (LSU and Missouri/Kansas).

Illinois is #17 but too far out to be considered for the BCS.

"rankings" is one thing, and doesn't necessarily equate to the quality of the team. The BCS is just a way of pointing out a team's record.

Harvard could go 15-0 but if they are playing cream puffs, they have the BEST RECORD, but are they really the best team?

Big Ten gets hyped and hyped as a great conference because those schools have been around for 390 years and have all these championships (that were won when there were only 4 universities in the Nation).

Point is.....if the Big 10 whipped up on each other and the entire conference from top-to-bottom was competitive, then the 2 best teams in the conference meet in a championship game....THEN, it'd probably have some good teams.

As it stands now, the Big 10 whips up on 3 dirt ball program to open. Faces maybe 1 or 2 of the top schools in the conference (OSU, MU,PSU) dodges the other big-time school then plays mediocre team after mediocre team in the conference (MSU, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Purdue, Northwestern, etc).

Specifically, MY BEEF is......OSU, Michigan, and Minnesota could realistically ALL be in the TOP 5 in the country by the year's end....and by BCS standards, compete for a NC....which (IMO) is unfair to the other conferences and the fans. The conference needs a champion.....the two best teams in the conference need to square off against each other (until a playoff system is devised....don't hold your breath)

The SEC & Big 12 are at a disadvantage because their conference is full of teams that can compete.

Now LSU was arguably the best team in the country in the first 3 weeks....but they haven't been the same team since they played Tulane. The expectation,passion, execution has severely diminished.

Bottom line, the shake-up in the BCS (missouri, Hawaii, etc) is good for college football.

actually the SEC has 10 bowl eligible teams as well.

Oh dont get me wrong I love seeing the shake up in the BCS. The system is flawed in so many aspects.

Second thing, the Big 12 is far from competitive from top to bottom. Baylor, Iowa State, and the pink shirts at Nebraska are about as lame as you can get. Even the SEC has its bottom feeders in Vandy and Mississippi. Now you will not get an argument that I think the SEC is better than the Big 10. But to say you can throw the Big 12 in there is a bit of a stretch.

Ohio State did play some cupcakes this year but keep in mind they have won a national championship recently. They also played a home and home with Texas the last couple years and I believe have a home and home with USC set up soon.

Keep in mind as well, outside of LSU, no SEC team went out of conference against a top 25 team and won. Tenn was the only other team to play a top 25 team and go waxed by Cal and then you had Alabama losing to University of Louisana at Monroe.

The SEC is at no disadvantage. I would love for the Big 10 to get with teh program and schedule a championship game but we will see.

What makes the whole world think the difference between the Big 10 and SEC is so great?

Are we going off one game last year (Florida vs OSU). Keep in mind OSU beat the unbeatable Miami Hurricanes a few years ago.

In Big 10 country we have 2 of the top 5 states for hs football. Most of which stick around and play their college ball in the area. Just because the Big 10 does not have the wide open spread attacks alot of SEC teams use, does not make it the bottom scum of football.

I am not trying to play conference favorites either. Just take a little bit of offense when people stating putting down the level of football played here.

i agree about your views on how good lsu has been, brophy.

I just like seeing the big-boys go down this year no matter who they are. Maybe all this topsy-turvey stuff will lead to a post season tourny the March Madness.

So its Ohio State's fault that there is no Big Ten championship game?

What about the Big East? No championship game there, either.

I think that a lot of this could be solved if the Big 10 just added one more team, and had a Championship game, while the Pac-10 either continues doing what it does (has every team in conference play the other teams) or add 2 more and get a Championship game as well.

How many times do you see a Big-10 school SHOOT up the rankings because they are 7-0 in the Big 10, and Don't have Ohio State on the schedule? Or they don't have to play Michigan that year. I think a year or 2 ago, Wisconsin didn't have to play Ohio State or Michigan and at least won a "share" of the conference championship...How the h3!! does that happen?

I would like to see a playoff as well, but that (I think) will just hurt the smaller schools. Teams will joing Conferences that are 8 teams at the most, and play their 7 conference games, and be undefeated conference champs, just to get into the tournament. And many will not get into the tournament if that is all they do. They would be left out for a 2-loss Florida, or 2-loss ND (not this year obviously). I just think there has to be a GRADUAL change from the system we are in now, to the system we all want....A playoff

The hard thing about college football is that we do not have a whole lot of basis to go off of when it comes to comparing teams outside of a conference.

Outside of a few games, in which most teams schedule a "cupcake" or two, teams only play in conference games. It all comes down to money. If a team schedules 1 or 2 tough non conference games than they are setting themselves up for a shot of not making a big paying bowl at the end of the year.

Look at Virginia Tech. Had they not played LSU and instead played a cupcake mid major they would be in that discussion for playing for the national championship. Why will you see top college basketball teams play each other all the time? Because 4 or 5 losses will not kill them in the national championship picture because they decide it on the court!

Arguing based off of one game from last year is dumb. Until we get a play off system we will not see the type of in season non conference match ups that we hope to see. That is the only major flaw I see in college football to this point

If Oklahoma beats Mizzou we will have two teams WVU and Ohio State that does not play conference championships