This weekend's biggest matchup for the SEC...

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milohimself

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Is USC vs. Nebraska?

Operating under the assumption that West Virginia loses one game, which I think they will, it looks as if Ohio State and USC are the two teams who control their own fate in the national title game.

Ohio State just proved themselves a force to be reckoned with, and Jim Tressell teams only get better as the season goes on.

If USC loses to Nebraska, I am predicting they lose two games in the Pac-10, which would put the door wide open for an SEC team in the national championship game.

My two pesos.
 
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I think we're going to see the winner of USC/ND on Nov. 25th play either Auburn or Ohio State.
 
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I have ND losing a couple games. I don't think their defense will hold up to the rest of the regular season. Too many tough games/trap games to survive with a national title-worthy record.
 
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I think the Miami/Louisville game is huge. If Louisville wins that, in my mind, either Louisville or WVU has a chance at running the table.
 
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I can't see it. Miami's offense sucks. So they won't go undefeated.

And I just don't see either West Virginia or Louisville being good enough to make it through the season without dropping at least a conference game... Which would drop them from the title hunt immediately.
 
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milohimself said:
I have ND losing a couple games. I don't think their defense will hold up to the rest of the regular season. Too many tough games/trap games to survive with a national title-worthy record.
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ND probably has their easiest schedule in years. I have a feeling their will be 3 undefeateds at the year's end: WVU (Louisville without Bush will not threaten them), Ohio State, and ND.
 
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This years title game will be Ohio State vs. USC/ND winner. Me thinks that will be USC.
 
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I wish we'd have 4, any 4, so a 4 team playoff would make sense. Obviously, we don't have the system to do that. However, let the BCS have another clusterffffffff and see what happens.
 
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milohimself said:
I can't see it. Miami's offense sucks. So they won't go undefeated.

And I just don't see either West Virginia or Louisville being good enough to make it through the season without dropping at least a conference game... Which would drop them from the title hunt immediately.
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Correct. Especially considering they've already lost a game. :wacko:
 
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Unless Miami can beat Louisville, IMO the winner of the Louisville v. W.Va. game will be undefeated. I suppose the opportunity to drop a conference game in an upset is there, but ouside of Pitt I just don't see any Big East teams that are playing anywhere near the level of L-ville and W.Va. right now.

As I see it now, if OSU wins out they are in the BCSNCSG no questions asked. The same thing goes for the winner of the USC-ND game, asssuming the winning team is undefeated. After the frontrunners I'd place an undefeated Big East champ, and undefeated SEC champ, and and undefeated Fl.St. in a 3-way tie for now.
 
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You heard it here first.:thumbsup:

I meant Florida State. Especially after they had that super-fantastic game against the juggernaut program of Troy.
 
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Yeah, but no one will remember the Troy game by November. With Miami and Clemson already having an "L" and FlSt and VaTech looking down I doubt an ACC team will win out this year. I also think it's going to be really hard for an SEC team to win out. If I had to guess right now, I'd say the winner of USC-ND will play the winner of Louisville-WVa for the BCS championship.
 
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With Ville/WVU...

I think that Louisville gets all their run from an overhyped 2004 season, and more specifically from an almost-win over Miami. Louisville's last regular season win vs. a ranked opponnent was all the way back in 2002. They also had that bowl win vs. Boise State (who also incidentally got ranked in 2004 without beating any ranked teams).

Then West Virginia is getting all of its run from a quarter of football against Georgia. As much pleasure as I took in watching the SEC champs get beat by any Big Least team, that game was all Georgia all the time after the first quarter. Their only other wins vs. a ranked oponnent since '02 has been against Maryland, and Louisville (which I just covered earlier).

I use all of those to show inconsistency and lack of real competitiveness on the part of both teams... I think each of them will lose at least a Big East game, and it will not be to the other. The winner of the game goes on to get slaughtered in a BCS game. Nobody is going to take that game lightly after the Mountaineers first quarter against Georgia.
 
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As for Notre Dame vs. USC... I have to go with my gut on this one.

Normally, I hate Notre Dame for all of the unwarranted attention they get, especially from ESPN. ND has basically become the team of the northeast, since college football in that area of the country has sucked for a long, long time (we're talking about the Big East's two best hopes for legitimacy being south of the Mason-Dixie).

My gut would also tell me that the hero boy they have at QB, and the New Englander hero Charlie Weis coaching, would constitute a championship team.

I have another gut feeling, though. That soon, your prediction will become the poetic regular season ending everybody would hope for. Notre Dame vs. USC for the chance to play for the national title. A hot pick for the regular season end, the popular idea.

I also know that the popular prediction almost never comes true.

To make the argument using more tangible concepts... Notre Dame's defense still sucks. They held off a Georgia Tech team with abou 1.5 great offensive players. They stopped a Penn State team breaking in a brand new QB, after Michael Robinson really made that offense go. Whoopdeedoo. ND's offense sucks, and they still have 3 Pac-10 games left on the Schedule from UCLA, USC and Stanford (I know Stanford sucks so far, but you know they're a trap game after last year, and Trent Edwards is, for my money, the third best QB in the country). Michigan and Michigan State. Trap games from Navy, Air Force and North Carolina.

Notre Dame loses a couple of games this season... Still manages to make a BCS bowl, because I would not put it past pollsters to rank a .500 Notre Dame team top 12 (exageration people, calm down).
 
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