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Originally Posted by Heavystarch
Any predictions of a title game yet?
With the way the season has gone, I'm going to guess LSU v West Virginia.
My reason why, LSU will likely play Arkansas and Tennessee to close out the season. I'm going to guess the winner of the Mizzou/Kansas game will lose to the Sooners, keeping the Big 12 out of it. However, if Tennessee falls to Kentucky, which is easily possible, and LSU has to face Georgia (Assuming they beat Ga Tech) in Atlanta, I think LSU would lose that game. That could have OSU playing in the title game again.
Oh wow, this is going to a crazy finish with a lot of great football left to play.
Nice post as usual LJB
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Thanks, I appreciate that.
Well, Ohio State is the leader in the club house, so to speak, so I have to like the Buckeyes' chances as well. As Mike Golic said on his radio talk show last Friday, all that Ohio State has to do is beat Michigan and then sit back and wait for everyone else to lose. Step one accomplished, now it's up to the rest of the field to choke down the stretch.
Oklahoma really screwed things up by losing to Texas Tech. As you say, if Oklahoma ends up winning the Big 12 title game (a very likely possibility), then the Big 12 goes being virtually guaranteed of chance at the BCS title game to absolutely no chance at all.
West Virginia
should win out, but LSU has been living close to the edge lately. If I were a Bayou Bengal, I wouldn't be looking past an Arkansas team that can run and score on anybody, especially because LSU's defense hasn't exactly been staunch in the second half of the season (31.3 ppg in their last four SEC contests). And conference title games often produce wacky results, so I wouldn't count out the SEC Eastern Division champ, particularly if Georgia gets the bid.
One other thing to consider.... Regardless of which two teams make the BCS championship game, we might have a split national championship as in 2003, especially if the season ends with four once-beaten teams. Let's say that Missouri and LSU win out in uninspiring fashion and play in the BCS title game, narrowly edging out Ohio State and West Virginia, who match up in the Rose Bowl. If the title game is a boring, sloppy, low-scoring affair, and if either OSU or WVU wins in an impressive rout, then the AP might just crown the Rose Bowl winner as their national champ.
Like you said, there's still a lot of football left to played....