then they will be the new OSU. It will be a blow-out regardless of who they play: Texas, USC, Oklahoma, Alabama, etc, etc. It drives me bananas that Penn State will not have to play a championship game.

ESPN does a good job of pushing its main products of their contract. Which in this case is the Big 10. CBS is our main contract and I just can’t get into it today of how much I am disappointed with the broadcasts weekly even when Bama is not playing. I will say this if any SEC team is left out undefeated it’s on CBS’s head. How many “updates” do we get on SEC games during broadcasts…not as many as USC or OSU. Is there any SEC team happy with the CBS coverage? I’ve been working on a tread about the whole thing and will post it later this season and see what everyone else feels.

Roll Tide!

In all fairness, Penn State and Texas were playing infinitely superior teams than we were. Those were both matchups of Top 10 vs. Top 10. We were playing a team that was 3-4 coming into the game with victories over UAB, Northern Illinois and Mississippi State.

I think a lot of people are wanting PSU to go to the title because of the whole “JoePa is a million years old wouldn’t it be nice to send him out a winner type of thing.”

don’t think we need to get the perverbial chip on our shoulders just yet. The fact that we will have to face a top 10 or top 5 BCS team in our conference title game helps us a great deal. Just as it helped LSU last year and Florida the year before. Believe it or not, a good number of voters will come to their senses and vote for an SEC team that has to play that championship game, also the computers will favor that as well. To me, the Big 10 is at a disadvantage in this respect.

… who rolls through the SEC undefeated can be said to have “lucked” their way into anything, my friend.

The problem is we will likely lose a game somewhere in our remaining schedule. Hopefully not UF or UGA in the SEC championship game. I think a one loss Big 12 and a one loss SEC team would be a much better game than an undefeated PSU. PSU has a weak schedule, but the media is Joe Pa crazy. This is all I am saying. If Texas loses to TT or someone else and we drop a game, one of us will be left to watch PSU in the NC. And that is just not right. Of course we are still a month away from getting into this too seriously.

If we drop a game, we’re out of the NC running. And as fun as this season has been, for me, it’s already been way over my expectations. Just getting to Atlanta would be a dream, that’s as far ahead as i am willing to look.

otherwise they’ll give it someone else for sure.

some food for though though from the NCAA’s website http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/natlRank.jsp?year=2008&div=IA&site=org

first of all, BAMA is 5th overall in total defense, and Tejas is 43. Bama is 2nd overall in rushing D, tejas is 3rd. we’re 54th in passing D, and tejas is 110th (thats no typo). and finally we’re 10th in total scoring D, and tejas is 28th. and of course BAMA’s schedule included decent teams who dont suck dick, and tejas’s is loaded with them.