re: Stewart Mandel Rips The Tigers

I had words with Cory of SI tonight on twittert about it not even being debatable that Stanford is the best one-loss team.

I told him Stanford has played two teams in the top 25 (and lost to one of them) while LSU has 5 teams on its schedule in the Top 25.


He said how many teams that LSU played are left in the top 25? One?

I haven't responded cuz I'm tipsy and I doubt want to get into an e-fight.

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Look at it however you like, LSU has a single loss by a single score to arguably the top team in the nation and they've played the toughest schedule of any team in the top 10. Period.

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And this somehow makes up for LSU not being able to handle less talented teams much more efficiently? I give JJ props for being a difference maker in this game tonight. No one knows what Wisconsin could do versus LSU but I am certain if LSU lost the blame would be laid on Chavis not getting the call in to a DB a la Saban vs Iowa or blame it on the field negating team speed vs PSU. Not to mention the B10 player of the year Clay @ RB never played a down today. How does any person know how Stanford or WI would fare in the SEC but instead just throws shite on them because LSU played poorly tonight in trying to stop OM's offense.

What pisses me off the most tonight is that Manuel and McCoy want other teams over LSU and today they won a high scoring game over a "lesser" opponent the same way Auburn has won all year.

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What pisses me off the most tonight is that Manuel and McCoy want other teams over LSU and today they won a high scoring game over a "lesser" opponent the same way Auburn has won all year.

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Agreed and a good point. If Aubie loses to Bama, I imagine the long knives come out and we get a "conference power shift" meme going with SI and ESPN

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Lost credibility there. He probably didn't even watch the game.

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No he obviously didn't watch the game. He's looking at box scores and drawing judgment.

He also has NO idea that:

1. OLE MISS vs. LSU is a rivalry game and are typically close.
2. Nutt has a history of beating LSU with "lesser" teams.
3. Ole Miss had a GREAT game plan, gambled perfectly all day, and still lost.
4. He needs to reference games like USC vs. Fresno St. in 05 where USC won 50-42 to understand that games like that happen!

Douche bag media like this have a long history of jacking off over big offensive showings and having a horribly 1-dimensional perspective.

I would love to hear his explanation as to why Oregon St. got beaten by lowly Washington St. last week then turns around and routes USC this week?

It's football and games are decided on the field.

Hey, Stewie:

In the polls that matter, the Coaches and Harris polls, LSU is behind Wisconsin already. They are only ahead of both Wisconsin and Stanford in the AP poll, which is irrelevant in today's college football. So all of you AP voters can rank LSU 25th for all I care. You don't count anyway.

LSU still has a very tough game on the road at Arkansas next week. If LSU wins that game on the road by a single point, then feel free to rank Wisconsin and Stanford ahead of an LSU team with wins over UNC, WVU, MSU, Florida, Bama, and Arkansas with its only loss being on the road to Auburn by 7 points.

At the end of the season, LSU would have played 6 teams that were ranked when they played them and beat 5. Meanwhile, "dominating" Stanford will have played two ranked teams and one of those was a blowout loss to Oregon. Wisconsin has looked dominant as of late with wins over teams that couldn't spell defense. Wisconsin has played 3 ranked teams and lost to one of them. The same can be said about Ohio State. Only one team on Ohio State's schedule will be ranked at the end of the season, and they lost to that team -- DOMINATING!

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But are the teams they're playing legit?

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Wisconsin? You bet they are.

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All of this is based on what type of offense those teams run, and what type of offenses we're good at stopping.

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It would also greatly depend on what LSU offense showed up and if JJ played well or substandard, plus what Crowton would call in short yardage situations---he played to OM's defensive strengths many times tonight.

LSU's problem, though they have been winning is consistency. Well, the offense was consistently bad for the first part of the year, but when the offense stepped up, the defense has fallen flat. UNC, Auburn and Today vs Ole Miss.

[quote]They have no business sitting ahead of more dominant one-loss teams like Stanford and Wisconsin in the polls Read more: LINK ]


So he thinks that a Stanford team that got skull drug by Oregon 52-31 and a Wisconsin team that got beat 34-24 by #12 ranked Michigan St are better football teams from a weak arse conference than a one loss LSU that has the toughest schedule in America, from the toughest conference who's only loss was by 7 points to #2 Auburn and the best player in America??

That sounds about right.

Typical fat arse media talking head who probably has never even worn a jock before. Consider the source.