Our Strength of Schedule goes way up if USC is one-loss when we meet them the first time, and OSU is undefeated when we meet them. Both will be Top 10 (USC after beating ND, OSU after going undefeated), and if we beat them, we'll have a major case to make for the #2 spot.
And then there's Florida. And you're also forgetting the Media's love for SEC cock. And would Kansas fans and ORegon fans make the flight all the way down to South Beach?
Alabama remaining schedule: Miss State LSU Texas A&M Western Carolina Auburn *Possible SEC title game Florida remaining schedule: Georgia Missouri Louisiana (Rajun Cajuns) Jacksonville St. Florida St. *possible SEC title game Kansas St. remaining schedule: Texas Tech Oklahoma St. TCU Baylor Texas Kansas St. won't win out. They'll slip a game, maybe two. Florida probably has the easiest schedule of the 3, but I could see them getting beat by Florida St. in Tallahasee. This is shaping up for an Oregon/Alabama clash of the titans!
I will say this, if we go undefeated and KState gets in ahead of us, I will be pissed. Those fuckers dodged us this season and they have no right going ahead of us if we both go undefeated.
You guys need USC and OSU to keep winning to help your strength of schedule. That is what's hurting you IMO. Lots of home games, one neutral site game, and only one real road game.
Still a longggggg ways to go for all the undefeateds. Numerous tough games ahead for everyone. Don't think it's worth fretting over until the last week or two imo
This just proves how fucked up the BCS is. Kansas State is rewarded for backing out of a game at Autzen this season.
The BCS is junk. Everybody knows that. We have 5-6 more games to play before the end of the season though. If I'm an Oregon fan, I'd just be thinking "let's win the games ahead of us," because if they slip up once, they're like out, but if they go undefeated, they're in. It's very unlikely that there will be two other power conference programs that are undefeated. The outliers usually come from mid-major conferences, and it's too early to get hot and bothered about potential scenarios, when the landscape of college football changes drastically week-to-week. ------------------------------------------------------- OT to the subject of Oregon, but on the subject of the BCS rankings, and what could bring these teams down... Anybody else see ULL as a trap game for Florida?
yup yup not really. Oregon was and is, running neck and neck with KSt in the BCS rankings, but it's pretty clear that the Ducks have the SoS that will have them emerge on top if both win out. A schedule that doesn't leave an undefeated team from a major conference in charge of it's own destiny this late in the year is one that is too weak. If both win out, I'm guessing their fanbase wishes they'd taken their chances in Eugene http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/47594/panic-oregon-tumbles-to-fourth-in-bcs-standings STOMP
Let's assume that Oregon, KSU and 1 of Alabama/Florida finish the season undefeated. You really think it's "clear" that Oregon gets in? KSU's SOS is pretty solid to this point, and their remaining games won't hurt it much (Texas Tech, Ok St, TCU, Texas)--I don't see UO's computer rankings surpassing KSU's. Add in the fact that they'll probably significantly close the gap on Oregon in the polls once one of the top SEC teams lose, and there's a decent chance that Oregon gets left out.
Good post. But we have Stanford, USC (probably twice) and OSU coming up, and that's not too bad. Especially if OSU is a one loss team before we beat them.
This has me worried and its a big reason I was so pissed off last year. If your team cannot win your own conferencce championship game then you do not deserve to be in a National title game (or straight out win the conference if you don't have a bowl game). I don't care that LSU did win it and then got DESTROYED by Alabama, in my eyes Alabama shouldn't have been in the game. Its really annoying that The Ducks do everything they can do to try and get highly rated opponents to play but all this "Amazing SEC" teams don't want to play at Autuzen and expect The Ducks to fly to them, they wont even except 1 home 1 road game type scenarios.
K State has beaten WVU who got torched the week before, a Miami team who can't win in the ACC and Oklahoma.... They've got no one ranked left to play... We've beaten a ranked Arizona team when we played them, a ranked UW team when we played them, OSU, USC, Stanford and USC probably again before the season is over, all top 20 teams. That and we unlike KState play a conference championship game. Notre Dame will lose by 20+ to the Sooners this weekend in Norman, Florida wont get past Georgia or Bama for that matter, Bama may lose to LSU so who knows maybe we'll get those coward Kstate punks in the national championship, stranger things have happened! Let's just win out first!!!
yup. They're neck and neck with KSU in the BCS today and clearly have higher ranked opponents left. #7 #9 & #17 >>> #14 & #23 the thing that could upset the apple cart is if Oregon's remaining opponents of note nosedive outside of their Duck matchup, but today I'd say they're more likely to emerge vs the SEC if both they & KSU win out STOMP
The Ducks would get in before KSU if they both win out. No conference championship game would doom KSU. Of course I don't expect either team to win out though.
This year's game was to be @KSU, wasn't it? http://cjonline.com/sports/football/2010-08-02/cats_cancel_oregon_series
