Andy Lowe
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Joined: 7/30/2007
From: Dublin, OH
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ORIGINAL: bohumm Hard and fast rules don't work with a limited field, nor do won-lost records. Unfortunately for Art, it takes a thoughtful selection process with frank analysis. I know out here, there were a couple of years where the conference (PAC 10) was weak but USC was clearly one of the best few teams in the country. The same thing could be happening in the Big 10 this year if Ohio State turns out to be a really good team who had one bad game against a decent team. At the same time, it's ludicrous that TCU is ahead of a team with the same record that it lost to and ahead of a team with the same record (Alabama) that has played a much tougher schedule. I couldn't give a shit if they score a lot of points---they would be undefeated if they weren't one of the few teams that has given up over 60. In fact, that might be a rule I could get with: Give up over 60----60---points and you cannot advance. But the fact is that like almost everything in college football, a lot of this will be a financial calculation: viewers like offense, some teams bring a lot more spending fans with them, let's have celebrity fans on the panel (Condaleeza Rice?), etc. But for God's sake, don't let a kid trade his Auto Zone Bowl watch for a tattoo. Exactly. Agreed on all. Especially the 60 point argument. No way TCU should be above Baylor and Alabama IMO. And agreed on Florida State. THIS team can't be judged on last year's performance. This team has not won any games impressively really all year. In the end, there's so much left to decide. If Alabama wins out, they're not only in the top 4 but likely #1. Likewise, if Miss. St. wins out with the exception of a loss to Alabama, they're still likely in the final 4 with their schedule. They will have 1 loss at that point against the toughest schedule in the country (road against Bama/LSU/Ole Miss yet they will not play in their conference title game if that happens. How could the committee leave them out? There'd be no good argument of a 1-loss TCU/OSU/Oregon/ASU team over a 1-loss MSU team. Could really see anyone in the top 8 still losing a game, or even 2. I have no problem with TCU ahead of Baylor. The game was in Baylor and TCU was virtually in control for most of the game. Anyone who watched the game, knows you could flip a coin, the winner didn't prove much IMO. The winner was almost irrelevant. To me it's more important to look at the whole body of work
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