re: Team of Decade- Florida or USC?

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Ohio St


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or OK




Epic Fail

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If either wins, I'm sure you'll still be writing this while they'll be high fiving themselves and laughing their asses off at people like you.

Nice to see Dodd as stupid as ever.

Sportswriter = idiot.

Always.

Every time.

Period.

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I think UF already has us beaten out by a little bit to be honest. Simply because I think their 2nd NC team was better than our 2nd NC team.

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Arguments for LSU:

More division titles
More BCS bowl wins
More total bowl wins
Better overall record
Better SEC record
Better bowl record

Argument for Florida:

Head to head (5-4)

Even:

National championships
SEC championships
BCS bowl appearances
Total bowl appearances

I really don't see how Florida rates better than us at this point. Obviously, if they beat us and win the SEC title, let alone the national title, this year, then they probably move ahead of us. It's that close between the two. But if either is ahead of the other right now, it has to be LSU.

To have the discussion without LSU even in it, as idiot Dodd did, is so stupid that I'd even call it sportswriter stupid.

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ur dum

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Says the last place finisher of the special olympics...

If LSU & UF only had 1 title like USC, the discussion would go down to "how tough was their road each season". USC gets 5 auto-wins a year from Wash, Wash St, Arizona, Stanford ( except for one season! ), and UCLA. The only teams that are real threats each year are Cal & Oregon, and teams like Oregon St and Arizona St fall somewhere in the middle.

We all know the path the SEC champ has to take, with possible double jeopardy in the SECCG. Miss St is the only team currently on the cellar level as the Wash teams. The SEC host 2 NC caliber teams in UF & LSU year in and year out, then teams like UGA, UT, Bama, and Auburn who have won / should have won / in position to compete for a NC.

Win the PAC-10 with 5+ conference wins on schedule every year and you get to the Rose at a min. NC contention really pivots on 4 games and those games are nowhere near the level of matchups found in the SEC ( ex. UF vs LSU ).

Win the SECCG and get to at least the Sugar. NC? Depends - there is only 1 auto-win in the SEC right now. Every other game is at least the mid to upper level 'threat' found in the PAC-10 schedule, with some games in the elite matchup range ( again, UF vs LSU for example ).

But none of that has to be discussed, bc UF & LSU don't just have one title - they each have two. Even suggesting USC surpasses one of those two programs this decade puts you in a 'special' group of drooling bib wearers.

/End of that 'debate'.

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The only teams that are real threats each year are Cal & Oregon, and teams like Oregon St and Arizona St fall somewhere in the middle.

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Remeber that time the almighty Tigers went to visit these "middle" PAC 10 teams and escaped with a W due to moderate miracles??

Just Sayin'

Just cause USC normally runs over these teams doesn't mean that these teams necessarily suck.. It could just mean that USC is that much better..

I used to think like you that USC was bullshite and the PAC 10 was completely weak..
I agree that the SEC is harder to get through.. but I also gaurantee that LSU and Florida's combined 4-0 Natl. championship games would show a different record had those games all been against USC..

IF we are doing decade though.. i say USC, UF, LSU.. If we are doing last 5 years.. I say 1a.UF 1b.LSU 3.USC..

Absolutely no way USC is the team of the (as-yet unfinished) decade. Here's why:

1. Essentially weak conference and powder puff schedule year after year.

2. At least one ugly loss to clearly inferior teams year after year.

3. Pete Carroll's shameless manipulation of the press year after year.

4. Dominant conference, talent and schedule strength for LSU and UF year after year.

IF UF wins the NC this year, you have your winner. LSU a close second.

You guys are killing me. The Rant is in rare form. You quickly dismiss Miami for the way they've fallen off, but conveniently leave out LSU losing 5 games TWICE and 4 games once since 2000. USC is 93-22 since 2000 while LSU is 90-27. THIRTEEN of USC's losses came in 2000 and 2001. So since 2002 USC is 81-9...EIGHTY ONE AND frickING 9!!!!!!!!

I don't think you can say who the top team is until after this year. To just say "UF and LSU are the only two teams in the discussion," is just foolish.

BTW, LSU ranks 7th this decade in winning percentage while Florida is 9th.

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IF UF wins the NC this year, you have your winner. LSU a close second.

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What if they do and then LSU wins year after?

Florida
2000: 10-3
2001: 10-2
2002: 8-5
2003: 8-5
2004: 7-5
2005: 9-3
2006: 13-1
2007: 9-4
2008: 13-1
3 Time SEC Champ
4-5 In bowl games
3-1 in BCS Games
2 National Titles

LSU
2000: 8-4
2001: 10-3
2002: 8-5
2003: 13-1
2004: 9-3
2005: 11-2
2006: 11-2
2007: 12-2
2008: 8-5
3 Time SEC Champ
7-2 Bowl Games
4-0 BCS
2 National Titles

USC
2000: 5-7
2001: 6-6
2002: 11-2
2003: 12-1
2004: 13-0
2005: 12-1
2006: 11-2
2007: 11-2
2008: 12-1
7 Time Pac-10 Champ
6-2 Bowl Games
6-1 BCS Games
1 National Title

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If either one of them wins it all this year, they'll probably claim the team of the decade (and rightfully so).

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If Oklahoma wins it this year they still won't finish 1st. Yes they have made alot of Nc games but this would be there only win.