USC is very underrated due to them being disqualified from the polls this year, they are easily a top 25 team
Oregon killed themselves by not using a timeout on the final drive. MSU, they're only DQed from the coaches poll, which is tied to the BCS. The AP could rank them. I've been watching the whole game.
Maldonado honks a 37 yarder and USC wins 38-35 Oregon could've won it with a TD but they didn't call a timeout to stop it the whole drive and ran out of time.
Yeah you're right they were #18th before the game, but people tend to ignore the AP poll because they aren't tied to the BCS in anyway.
yeah but what you see is they weren't unranked. I'm sure they would've been ranked in the coaches poll as well save for the DQ. Wonder where they'll go to in the AP now. Late money was bet on USC. Line was Oregon -16.5 today until just before gametime, where heavy money on USC made it 14.5
sometimes i think the oregon coach thinks he is playing madden. goes for it on 4th down constantly, not 4th and 1 but 4th and 7 or 8. not calling timeouts to not slow down his offense when the clock is running out. its scary the way he coaches. they will be on probation in under 3 years, already have the ncaa looking into them and its gotta take quite some convincing to get southern california kids to go up to oregon.
OU going for 2, down 38-37 with 51 seconds left. edit: false start and they kick the XP. Going to OT barring a big play by Baylor.
Baylor wins it with a TD!!!! they just went right down the field with a few big plays. three out of the top five go down this week
Don't forget #7 Clemson went down as well. Now my dream is for Bama to lose to Auburn, LSU to beat Arkansas but lose to Georgia in the SEC Title game. Talk about chaos. Who the hell would play for the title? Houston and VaTech?
yeah I realized after I posted that I forgot to mention Clemson, but the truth is they weren't a title contender anyway, although they're likely headed to a BCS bowl. You could see one loss LSU facing one loss Oklahoma State in that scenario. Houston and Virginia Tech each have approximately a zero percent chance of making the title game.
With wins over Alabama and Oregon, LSU deserves to play for the title even if they lose one game down the stretch. At this point, if everything stays the same (which is obviously a huge assumption,) it looks like we'll get an LSU/Alabama rematch.
There is a situation where it could get really interesting: LSU wins out. That gives Arkansas and Georgia another loss each. Alabama loses to Auburn next week. Oklahoma state loses to Oklahoma Stanford loses to either ND (not likely) or USC in the PAc-12 championship (more likely). VT loses in the ACC title game to Clemson. Now.... LSU is undefeated, every other team in the top 12 has two Losses except Boise and Houston. What do they do? Put in a 2 loss team? Let in undefeated Houston despite playing a really weak schedule? Put in Boise who lost to a mediocre TCU team? That would be fun, and is what I'm rooting for. Absolute chaos.
Actually under the "Non AQ Clause" Boise would be ineligable because they wouldn't be the MWC Conference Champ. It's stupid that if you play in the Big 6 conferences you could not be the conference champ and still play for the mythical title but if you don't play in an AQ you have to be the conference champ to go to a BCS Bowl.
Actually, losing to ND is infinitely more likely than losing in the Pac-12 Championship to USC. The odds of the latter happening are nil. It would take an Oregon loss to Oregon St and, all the more improbable, a refashioning of history to remove USC's disqualification. As it stands, the Trojans are ineligible to play in the championship game.
I don't think the clause would matter. Boise's only shot was running the table and hoping for the big teams to go down. The way it is now, they wouldn't get in even in the dream scenario.
Yeah, I didn't notice that because it wasn't an NCAA ruling, it was the PAC-12 that decided that. Also forgot Oregon has the tiebreaker. None of this matters of course since it is probably a 3 team race among the SEC West leaders for those 2 spots.
