re: Sure Wish LSU Was Playing Stanford or OSU

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Evidently, the majority of people who follow college football for a living and vote on this stuff thought so as well.

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Right, because of that preconceived notion of them "not being elite" or "not passing the eyeball test."

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No, their defense is shitty. Very shitty.

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Yeah, it is obvious that they couldn't stop a runny nose last night, but who can? Ha ha. I was meaning, though, that their defensive numbers are skewed a bit by the fact that they are out there so much of the game due to the speed at which their offense scores.

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They don't look any worse than they have all year. This is just the best team they have faced.

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They handled OU pretty well to end the season, and so far it looks as though most of their opponents that were in bowls have won so far. (Granted that Iowa State loss looks even worse now.)

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Played worse competition, have a crappy defense, lost to Iowa State. Bama and LSU are in a league by themselves. Bottom line, OSU is closer to Arkansas in quality than it is LSU or Bama

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the Big XII is doing pretty good in bowl games so far. Who did Alabama beat that was any better than the teams OSU beat? How many teams with winning records had Alabama beaten before bowl games?

Alabama had a better out of conference opponent (on paper), but how does that look now with Penn State losing to Houston?

I'm not saying OSU could beat LSU or 'Bama. They just got screwed in the media because they aren't perceived to be elite, and have just moved from the "kid table" of college football to the "adult table." They are a conference champion with one loss, and if they were the Oklahoma team from Norman with that resume' the would have been in the title game.