****Official tOSU/Florida BCS National Title Game thread****

[MyTurn2Raise]

lol....Michigan favored over LSU....thank god for the public insuring bad lines

[freemoney]

Arkansas almost won the SEC without a [censored] quarterback. They line up McFadden and run Felix Jones in motion, either McFadden runs to the right or Jones on the reverse. Their qb is awful and they only throw to one receiever. Im so over the SEC, they are insulated b/c they play themselves only and the media gets all over their nuts.

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It's clear that Michigan is the 2nd best team in the country. Kind of unlucky that the only team better than you is in your own conference.

Tomorrow should be fun.

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extreme midwest bias on view for everyone

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Name one team that has one loss, Michigan isn't favored over on a neutral field.

(Other than the Indianapolis Colts)

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they shouldn't be favored over Louisville, but the public (and this forum) are some square donks who would be all over Michigan in the match-up.

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omg. you're insane.

[SoloAJ]

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With USC's loss, and Florida's tougher schedule than Mich, I guess this will be a done-deal by the time the votes are in and the BCS computers put Florida ahead of Mich.


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Before the SEC championship game, Sagarin had Michigan's schedule as #13 and Florida's as #27.

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And Florida played the schedule against the toughest opponenet win percentage.

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yeah a [censored] of cupcake nonconference matches

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What does this have to do with the fact that Fla. played the schedule with the highest opponent win %?

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because its artificially inflated, Michigan has a tougher SOS

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Again, Are you aware that it isn't "artificially inflated" by
4-7 UCF
2-9 Western Carolina (assuming they counted this one)
6-6 FSU (which actually HURTS that number, despite being FSU).
And then an 8-5 ConfUSA South.Miss.

Against D1A opponents: .609
Include WCU: .579

Explain to me which of the teams from that OOC list "artificially inflated" that statistic. I'll tell you, Southern Miss...who's win % was an astounding .615. (Wow that really "inflated it" up from the final .609 mark)

Then explain to me, please, which of these teams HURT that number. Well 2-9 surely if we include that. And even if we don't, a .500 FSU team and a 4-7 UCF surely knocked that overall number down a bit...

It just further shows how tough the In-Conference schedule of UF was....
Without their "cupcake schedule that artifically inflates Opp. Win %", UF's SEC opponents % was .651...


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Now, since I was talking Opp. Win % and you said that Michigan played a tougher schedule because it wasn't artifically inflated...Let's get down in there real quick.
Michigan's Big-10 Opp. Win% - .583
Michigan's total Opp. Win % - .579

You can talk about the other Strength of Schedule measures all you want. But if you're going to say something entirely wrong (inflation?), then you're going to get called on it.

Do you get me now?

[MyTurn2Raise]

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Arkansas almost won the SEC without a [censored] quarterback. They line up McFadden and run Felix Jones in motion, either McFadden runs to the right or Jones on the reverse. Their qb is awful and they only throw to one receiever. Im so over the SEC, they are insulated b/c they play themselves only and the media gets all over their nuts.

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how insulated is the Big10? the conference rose as it's teams got to play each other instead of big East and div 1-AA non-conference opponents.

[PTjvs]

It's pretty obvious that both the Big10 & SEC are insulated & have played virtually no good games out of conference this year. There is no objective way to determine if UM is better than UF.

But just watch the games and UM sure looks a HELL of a lot better than UF looks. Seriously, what do you think the line would be if UF played UM right now on a neutral field? 3? There is VERY little doubt in my mind that UM would be favored.

Seriously, LSU favored over Michigan? There is no insurance LSU will score more than 3 vs. UM (see Auburn). How are they going to cover the spread?

jvs

P.S. As an OSU fan, I'm hoping we get to play UF. I'm confident in having a better than break even chacne of beating UM or UF, but I feel getting to play UF would be a substantially easier game.

[ridonkulous]

Judging by the coaches poll, it looks like you'll get your wish.

[Thremp]

This thread is full of donkotards who have no concept of how to provide decent analysis of who would beat who. Why don't we leave it to the professionals?

It's official. What's the line? OSU -??

[Dan.]

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