AU beat a 9 win UT team by 10 points today, and could've made it 17 had we run 1 more running play inside the 5 at the end of the game. We spotted UT 14 points and still won by 10. USC faced a unranked opponent, and won by 5 (with some quetsionable fumble calls I might add), and the second best team in the Pac-10 was up by 2 points against Southern Friggin Miss with under 5 mintues to go. May I remind the viewers at home that Alabama beat Southern Miss so bad, their mommas' felt it.
Oklahoma, while looking impressive, beat an UNRANKED colorado team like a redheaded stepchild. Color me unimpressed.
Somehow, after watching all these games, the talking heads AGAIN denegrated AU's impressive accomplishments against BETTER COMPETITION.
I saw a USC team have to recover an onsides kick to win the game. I saw them have to get an INT towin the game. I saw them win by 5 points to an unranked UCLA team. I remember 2 weeks ago when AU's 8 POINT WIN agaisnt an arch rival was denegrated, but tonight, no such courtesy was extended to USC. They won, it was a rivlary game., and they were hailed. WHen we did the same, we were denegrated.
AU has played 4 games against teams with 9 wins, won al 4, 2 away from home. That is more than USC and OU have done COMBINED. We've won by an average of 13.3 points against those opponents, more than OU has against their RANKED opponents.
I've seen the dicks on ESPN denegrate AU's Defensive performance tonight, in a game we won by 10 POINTS (could've been 17 had we used our timeouts and punched the ball in when we were inside the 5 with 25 seconds to go), when they said nothing of the sort when OU won by less than that in TWO CONSECUTIVE GAMES against average Big-12 opponents.
I'm sick of hearing abuot OOC records, because its' a red herring. Our In-conference schedule was better than USC's or OU's, and we won more impressively more often than either of those two teams.
The SEC has 5 teams in the top 25. The Big-12 has 4 The Pac-10 has 3.
I'm livid that AU can beat the #15 team on national TV, spotting 2 turnovers + bad punt snap (14 points), and not punch in the last TD (17 point win) when we clearly could've, and watch them praise USC's 5 FRIGGIN POINT WIN agaisnt UNRANKED and HORRID UCLA as well as OU's absolute demolishment of another unranked "Big 12 North champion" Colorado, and at the same time denigrate this teams accomplishments. The Big East, the MAC, the WAC, and the Sun Friggin Belt play better footbal than the Big 12 North. Hell, Hoover High would place no worse than 3rd in the big 12 north.
The computers can suck it too. They've got a great track record of being wrong. Sagarin has some horrible teams in the top 40, he has a 10 win 1AA school at 193, behind several 1AA schools with 1-2 wins, and he's been historically wrong at the END OF THE SEASON. For cryin out loud, in 2002, he picked a 2 LOSS USC team as his NC, above an UNDEFEATED Ohio State. He has a 6-5 Oregon State Team above Co-Big-10 Champs Michigan and Iowa. Michigan would kill OSU any place, any time.
So, fsck the BCS. I hope Texas gets #4 above Cal, cause it serves this entire system right.
