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Week 14, A Fitting End
Submitted by micah.groves on Tue, 2007-12-04 16:44.
Saturday proved to be a fitting end to a college football regular season that is without wuestion the craziest one I have ever seen. My Sooners dominated the No. 1 Missouri Tigers, winning 38-17. Missouri should have known better than to talk all that smack about how they gave the game away the first time the two teams played. That is not how you beat my Sooners. You beat them by telling them how great they are and that you hope to at least be in the game in the fourth quarter. Anyway, OU looked prety good. I was a little nervous going in to halftime with the score tied at 14, but Oklahoma came out in the second half and dominated. Curtis lofton had a big game with a huge interception, setting up an OU touchdown. Allen Patrick had a big run and Malcolm Kelly made a big catch, which also lead to Sooner touchdowns. The No. 2 team in the nation lost yet agian as West Virginia fell to unranked, four-touchdown underdog Pittsburgh. This was supposed to be a blowout, but like most of the season, the unexpected happened. The Mountaineers lost their starting quarterback for a period during the game. And the rest of the time, they just looked flat. You have to give credit to Pitt's defense, but in the end, West Virginia blew its chance at the national title. Their coach was pretty distrought after the game, and who could blame him. LSU beat Tennessee by a touchdown to win the SEC title. After early morning reports that Less Miles would leave LSU for the Michigan job, the Tigers' coach held an unusual pre-game press conference to announce his intnetions to stay at LSU. The Tigers ended up beating Tennessee 21-14, thanks to a late interception returned for a touchdown. USC wrapped up the Pac 10 title with a 24-7 win over UCLA. And Virginia Tech won the ACC title with a 30-16 win over Boston College. So that brings us to the BCS. It really is a shame that such a crazy, unpredictable college football season has to end with the joke that is the BCS. With Saturday's losses by West Virginia and Missouri, that means that Ohio State, who hasn't even played a game in three weeks, gets a spot in the national championship against two-loss LSU. College football analysts are saying that the system did what it is designed to do –– decide which two teams deserve to play for the championship. But here is my problem with the system. What makes LSU a better two-loss team than West Virginia, USC, Oklahoma, Missouri, Virginia Tech or Georgia? What makes them better than one-loss Kansas? And did I mention that undefeated Hawaii was never even considered for the national championship. In a season of upsets, and on-the-field miracles, it is a sad fact that the national champioship has been decided off the field. Until college football gets some kind of playoff system, we may never have a true national champion. The rest of the BCS bowl games are as follows: Fiesta: Oklahoma vs. West Virginia Sugar: Georgia vs. Hawaii Orange: Kansas vs. Virginia Tech Rose: Southern Cal vs. Illinois I will be taking a closer look at each of these games in upcoming blogs. |
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