re: As the season draws closer and closer, Oregon fans get crazier and crazier

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I still find it remarkable that you got to the title game, because your computer rankings had to be horrid.

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How so? I'm not about to say we had a tough SOS but it wasn't low enough to kill our chances obviously. We had a tougher schedule than TCU, the only other undefeated team outside of Oregon and the only other team close enough to Oregon in the rankings with a significantly higher SOS than Oregon was Stanford, but they weren't about to put a non-conference champion (from the same conference no less) in the NC, especially after the Nebraska and Oklahoma incidents in the early 2000s (the very reason SOS isn't as strong of a factor as it used to be in the BCS rankings) where they didn't even win their conference but got in the NC anyway. Most people saw the Oregon/Stanford game and it would be absolutely ridiculous if Stanford got in over us after that. Everyone else was ranked too low to be considered, even with a higher SOS.