Re: 2007 Pac 10 football thread
I think that Georgia and USC are very close in the battle for "best team at this moment that currently has two losses". If you ask what team is "best when fully healthy, among teams currently with two losses" though, my money is on Oregon. Give us Dixon, Paysinger, Colvin, Johnson and Bacon back and we will beat a fully healthy USC 7 times out of 10 on a neutral site.
Of course USC >>>>> Oregon at the moment, because USC's injuries were early in the year and they're healthy now, while Oregon has just gotten more and more beat up as the year has progressed.
And this is precisely why we shouldn't have a playoff. USC does not deserve to be rewarded for having *their* injury problems earlier in the year than Oregon did. Injuries are part of the game, and if you lose because of them it may mitigate things in the question of how "good" you are, but you still lost and should still be punished for it. In USC's case, that loss was to Stanford, and they should NOT have a chance to win the National Title at this point in the year, given that game.
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