re: Mandel: lsu pasting of Washington means nothing

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I think for network marketing reasons ESPN wants to to protect the illusion of some type of parity between the conferences. The reality is that the team from the outside world going up against the SEC in the BCSNC is stepping into a buzz saw.

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Probably true, but Mandel doesn't work for ESPN.

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LSU could be a great team, but that game was not impressive

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this is of course missing the point. Usc and stanford are unimpressive and they lost. Lsu makes a ton of mistakes but still beats a talented, fired up auburn at auburn. That is what mandel didn't mention

Well, it doesn't mean anything comparing LSU to USC, but who does that? Other than people obsessed with comparing LSU to USC? But taking that out of the equation, it does mean something to LSU.

It means our win over UW is better than people initially thought. Crushing a bad team is fairly meaningless, but it appears that UW is actually decent. I doubt they're gonna win the Pac-12 or anything, as their o-line is still pretty pitiful, but LSU completely dominated a UW team that will probably finish the season in the 7-5 range. Strength of schedule matters, and LSU's just got stronger. We need UW to be at least decent to have some quality OOC wins.

That said, it's meaningless if LSU doesn't take care of business.

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For LSU for get any type of national respect, they'll have to beat 2 SEC teams on the road thus far into the season. Got it

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seems that way

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I wonder if any of these other teams have the same expectations.

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does not seem that way





these national peeps go on and on about how tough the Pac 12 is and how Stanford's front seven stack up with ANYONE in the SEC



and then they get beat by a team LSU beat by 38 and it's all


"All is well, nothing to see here"

How hard is it for some of you to understand that the pollsters/media fear about another Alabama/LSU match-up in the title game and are preparing from day one to eliminate that scenario?! Just down play one team to keep them away from #2.
This is another season where there will be multiple one loss teams. Oregon, FSU, Clemson, LSU/Bama are all possible one loss teams when everything is said and done.

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As the fourth quarter wore on Thursday night and Washington's upset of No. 8 Stanford became increasingly likely, the good people of Twitter made their high school teachers proud and broke out the transitive property.

LSU beat Washington 41-3. Washington is beating Stanford. How good is LSU?

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Funny thing about the 'Transitive Property' in college football. Just because sometimes it doesn't work doesn't mean it NEVER works.

In THIS case, it works.

LSU > UW > Stanford > USC.

I think they shoud drop USC further down in the polls on Monday - even if the Trojans win - just because of what UW did last night.

Washington is a bad football team, plain and simple. Playing them wasn't a whole helluva lot tougher than playing Idaho or North Texas. They couldn't do anything more against us those 2 teams could. This loss is a bit of a blackeye for the P12. Stanford beat the PAC-12 poster child team, got moved into the Top 10 and then they lost to a team we demolished without even breaking a sweat. Just isn't an elite team in the P12 this year at all, period. Sorry Oregon, but we all know how things go for you when the games really matter. The cute offense doesn't work when the team has a pulse on defense, and you certainly aren't going to like it when your freshman QB has to go up against a legit defense.

I kind've agree. I've never bought into the logic of "A beats B, B beats C, who beat D, therefore A is better than D"

Each team presents a different challenge. Certain teams are tailor made to beat other teams and are susceptible to get exposed by other teams.

From Udub piece.

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LSU beat Washington 41-3. Washington is beating Stanford. How good is LSU?............
The teams change from week to week. They're better some games than others. They play differently at home than on the road. Not to rain on the parade, but the transitive property wasn't intended for football.

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From his power ranking

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failed to lead the offense on many scoring drives against a defense that gave up 28 points in regulation to Louisiana-Monroe on the same field a week earlier. Don't give me the LSU-Auburn-is-always-a-close-game excuse, either.

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If, say, Washington -- a 41-3 loser to LSU -- beats Stanford Thursday, that's a huge plus for LSU. If Auburn continues to improve, then that result won't look so bad.

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I'm glad Stu would never use the transitive property for college football.

Basically I hate college football reporters or analysts.

The same ones that say that the Big 10 is terrible...say the Bama's win against Michigan was fantastic.