<p>hawaii needs to be exposed…just like ohio state</p>
<p>^ Game tied. 6 minutes in 4th quarter.</p>
<p>…Hawaii now threatening with 56 seconds left.</p>
<p>looks like they won with this last touchdown…good game</p>
<p>^ Yep!..</p>
<p>ahh so close…that last 50 yard pass was insane but they couldn’t finish in the end zone</p>
<p>Hawaii locks up undefeated season, and will likely be Sugar Bowl bound. </p>
<p>Exciting final regular season game to this crazy season!</p>
<p>at least the season was crazy…the championship game doesn’t seem like it will be too exciting</p>
<p>i am looking for someone to explain the choice of KU over MU.</p>
<p>even the bcs ranking puts MU ahead of KU. so this is really strange. in the past, we had controversial choices before but at least we could say the bcs ranking said so. now i don’t even know what the basis is.</p>
<p>someone may say MU didn’t play well in front of the national tv and gave bad impresssion. but the coach and ap poll both put MU ahead.</p>
<p>someone may say they got 2 losses but that 2 losses were to the same team and the very reason they had 2 losses because they played in the championship game, a game KU couldn’t play because of its loss to MU. if # losses is that important, then why can’t Hawaii replace LSU then? after all, Hawaii has a stronger schedule than KU.</p>
<p>any thoughts?</p>
<p>Go bears?</p>
<p>I hope Tedford and Longshore put some thought into next season…this one was straight out of a Stephen King novel.</p>
<p>^ We got to a bowl game. The Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl against Air Force…Should be an interesting game.</p>
<p>Congrats to Illinois on their Rose Bowl selection.</p>
<p>As far as Mizzou vs. Kansas, Kansas is a one-loss team, while Mizzou is a two-loss team (both to Oklahoma). Kansas had a weak schedule…I think Mizzou got snubbed. Every year the BCS always snubs a team (Auburn, Cal, now Mizzou).</p>
<p>If any team got snubbed in the BCS, it was Arizona State. They ended up with a share of their conference title, with their only two losses coming against #6 USC and an Oregon team that would almost certainly be playing for a national championship right now if Dixon’s knee didn’t get hurt. </p>
<p>Taken instead of them, Kansas and Illinois ( 9-3 !?)</p>
<p>^ What about Missouri? They were ranked No. 1 last night, and didn’t get any BCS bowl bid.</p>
<p>Washington had a chance to beat Hawaii last night…if they did, ASU would be going to the Fiesta Bowl, and Kansas would be in the Sugar Bowl.</p>
<p>Bo Pelini to Nebraska…gave a great presser this afternoon. I was ready to run through a wall for the man right then and there. Speculation abounds about future coaching staff. My head might explode from sheer awesomeness if he dared bring in Ed Orgeron to coach the DL. Not likely, but a guy can dream.</p>
<p>Illinois only gets in because the people who run the Rose Bowl are idiots and blinded by this Big10/Pac10 thing.</p>
<p>The thing to remember is the BCS is a measure of the quality of a season a team has had, not how good they are. KU had a better season overall compared to Mizzou. Plus I have nothing but spite for the school.</p>
<p>I am completely sick of all these articles all over ESPN.com trashing Ohio State. They act like LSU is the end all of everything. I do understand that OSU’s schedule was significantly easier than LSU’s, but it’s NOT OSU’s fault that the Big Ten had a complete and utter breakdown this year. </p>
<p>Also, Ohio State DOES have TWO games played against top 20 teams, unlike everyone saying they had zero. At the time of playing them, no team was above #20, but Wisconsin and Illinois are both in the top 15 actually.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Ohio State had ONE bad game the previous year, and everyone is treating them like ***** for it. Dismantling TWO #2 teams in one season (while losing to the third one) is pretty impressive and their schedule last year was no walk in the park. Yes Florida owned them, but Ohio State has quickly reloaded and has the top defense in the country in terms of points per game. Only Illinois has been able to break through so far.</p>
<p>Basically, all this trash talking about OSU is completely absurd. Sorry that they only lost one game this year and that everyone can’t get past the fact that they play all twelve of their games in succession so their boys can go home for Thanksgiving. And I’m pretty sure not having a conference championship doesn’t mean and more power to the Big Ten for not wasting their time trying to recruit ND so they can have a 12 team conference and entertain that idea.</p>
<p>And here’s what should have happened instead:</p>
<p>Switch LSU with Hawaii
Replace Illinois with Missouri</p>
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<p>I understand that part totally. The difference is in the past, it at least followed the BCS ranking. Oregon was snubbed in 2001. But Nebraska was ranked ahead of Oregon in the BCS ranking (the human polls put Oregon ahead of Neb but Neb was #2 in BCS ranking). So I thought BCS ranking is what they had to go by. But that’s not the case with picking Kansas over Mizzou. It’s like picking Oklahoma over LSU now even BCS ranking says LSU is #2 and OU is #3.</p>
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<p>Tournament of Roses officials are old school. They were hell bent on a BigTen/Pac-10 matchup. Since, tOSU was lost to the NCG, the Rose Bowl committee had first pick and went with another BigTen school.</p>
<p>Personally, USC/Florida or USC/Georgia would have made for a more exciting game. But, congrats to the Fighting Illini.</p>
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<p>I was kind of surprised Nebraska didn’t woo a bigger name head coach, but Bo Pelini seems to be a good choice. He’ll get Nebraska’s Blackshirt defense back to the level it needs to be.</p>
<p>ucb,</p>
<p>SEC ties to the sugar bowl protected georgia from being selected (since lsu is going to the ngc), so rose bowl couldn’t select them. because georgia is already locked that way, florida was automatically out of the bcs bowls. in other words, rose bowl couldn’t have selected either one of them. their choices were missouri, kansas, west virginia, and hawaii. none of them was traditional powerful house and worthy enough for rose bowl officials to break the tradition. it would be a different situation if they could pick florida/georgia.</p>
<p>^ Agreed…I read some more and found out they couldn’t pick an SEC team.</p>