Roger_the_Shrubber wrote:I don't really care about the placement of FSU as much as the 'reason' why. A voter said that IF they hadn't have had an injury, Oregon might have won against Arizona.
"Ifs" suck. And to base one's voting on that, sucks.
Two sides to the argument -- in fairness, the Anointed Ones said from the outset that they might consider injuries, and Oregon didn't have "an injury," they were sans 4 starting OLs.
On the other side of the coin... they lost the game, at home, albeit to a good opponent.
I agree that speculating-in-the-past-tense is a slippery slope. And everybody has injuries.
As far as FSU -- thus far, their schedule is shit, but against a quality opponent Saturday, a win
should leapfrog them back to #2...
But the committee knows who they work for -- the NCAA and ESPN. The super-smart people on it know what they're doing, and they're doing an excellent job of trolling everyone. But it's odd they're such PACBSHs. Are they setting everyone up to put 2 SEC teams in the playoff, and giving themselves an out with all the PACBSHing?
Because the jumps in the rankings of the top PAC teams seemed a bit disproportionate. Don't get me wrong,
I'm a PACBSH, but as a fan, I'm allowed, and I can still call a spade a spade (in an all white neighborhood, anyway) -- seems like the PAC is getting extra love, although I do believe it's the strongest conference this year (been waiting a whole lotta years to be able to say that).
Not sure how I feel about their scorn for the B1G. The eyeball test says the top teams aren't on par with those of other conferences, and much of their OOC was garbage, but you still have a couple of teams with one loss in a P5... gotta be worth something.
And WGARA -- lots of football left to be played. It'll all come out in the wash.