Goddamn you batman comma god damn you

osu beat more ranked teams, more bowling teams, and won their conference. alabama did beat arkansas, but arkansas barely pulled it out against texas a&m (aggie had another abortion of a second half that let arkansas make a big comeback. that's so aggie.). how does alabama have a better sos? i think their close loss to lsu is the biggest claim either team has to being #2, but they definitely had an easier schedule overall. 8 out of 10 big 12 teams went to bowls. the big 12 was deeper this year than the sec.

awwwww yeahhhhh babayyyyyyy

probably the least climactic last play of a football game I can imagine, lol. But hey, third time's the charm, I'm glad the Ducks pulled out a BCS win before LaMichael James takes off for the NFL, which he should probs do, let's be real. Next year is gonna be tough, Andrew Luck is gone, but SC is back, and the Pac 12 is more or less up for grabs between Oregon and SC.

Also glad Deanthony Thomas got a chance to strut his stuff for a national audience.

I think USC will be really good next year

I agree. They had a pretty good year this year too, but nobody really paid attention since they were automatically out of bowl contention.

I pretty muched ignored them, but then late in the season, I saw Barkley's stats and that he was coming back. He's gonna be huge next year.

they snuck up. i didn't realize they were even in the top 25 for a while and then all of a sudden they're top 5 and Barkley's season state line is better than luck's.

They don't, but neither have good OoC schedules so what you said about LSU/Alabama is correct. It really looks like both the Big 12 and SEC are going to go 6-2 in their bowls though, so I'm not really sure I'd call the Big 12 "deeper" despite the SEC east being pretty weak this year. I'd be willing to say that Bama has a tougher in conference schedule just because of Ark/LSU, and that they've have only had the slightest bump in the road and otherwise beat everyone convincingly (I know iowa state was a double overtime but... OSU really should've been able to avoid going to OT at all if they wanted to make #2.) There was also a couple calls in LSU/Bama that could have gone either way and probably prevented an OT in the first place (in Bama's favor) so that game was basically as well contested as it gets, so it's pretty easy to see why they weren't heavily penalized for losing

Anyway, great Rose bowl... I just wish I didn't miss the Fiesta

i was going to respond with a nitpicky analysis about tracking rankings and crap all season and who they've played but whatever. i think alabama is the better team honestly. i'm just annoyed it's a rematch because i think osu has a really good case to be playing lsu instead, and since they're big 12 it would be great for the conference to break the sec's winning streak. oh well. texas is going to win it all next year if they have a quarterback who can manage a game and just not turn the ball over. okay, maybe not, but top 10 easily. they won 8 games with about 10 upperclassmen who contributed (5 seniors i think) and it would've been 10 wins if they didn't lose their 4 most productive offensive players at the same time midseason. if landry jones goes pro they'll be at the top of the conference with ksu, but better i think since they almost beat ksu despite being completely shredded by injuries, 2 reallllllly bad calls that gave ksu a touchdown, and limiting them to 100 yards of offense. yep. texas is going to win the conference next year. they played 19 true freshman! and more redshirt freshman and lots of true sophomores. i can't think of any other team ever who's leading qb, rbs, and receiver were all true freshman. they're easily the youngest of the top 50 teams in the country. can't wait until they're seniors. be afraid. not that you asked.....

Yeah I can't really follow Big 12 teams religiously so I really wouldn't know about Texas, I was just talking about this season.

I do know as far as recruiting goes they're one of the best schools in the nation though, so they're always going to be someone to watch out for, or at least until (somehow) that trend ends... especially the next couple of years apparently.

And you know what I meant but it was bothering me so, the SEC is going 6-3*

With the way Texas recruits you'd think their water boys would win moe than 8 games.

Next year will be mostly about LSU/Bama again, but the rest of the top 10 will shake up and hopefully we'll get a different title game. For contenders will I'll throw Oregon, USC, Michigan, Clemson, Oklahoma, and Georgia out there.

the bcs prematurely ejaculated last night i'm afraid.

the orange bowl might still be good

the sugar bowl was always going to be a "day after christmas bowl game" masquerading as a BCS game anyway

9 out of 12 from the SEC hardly shows the Big 12 was deeper. I've already analyzed how their schedules are effectively the same.

Dream on

This year, Michigan was a reasonably above average team masquerading as an 11 game winning squad.

Their schedule was softer than Scott Mitchell's underbelly and they won the Sugar Bowl with 184 total yards.