Rip
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Location: Morrison TN
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If I remember right you got some very lucky breaks and some very questionable calls went your way down the stretch. That's part of the game and Iowa deserved to win but they lose 9 out of 10 to LSU that year if they played them. Everything went perfect for them that day, but hats off to them they earned it and made the plays they needed to make to win.
At any rate LSU was playing up that year because they were in the same position as Tennessee this year. Not a very good SEC team solid but not "good", but caught a snakebit Tennessee team in the SECCG who turned the ball over when going in to score the winning TD 2 different times (not forced TO mind you but just RB dropping the ball on the ground without contact etc). To top it off Tennessee knocked out the LSU quarterback for ya too in that game.
It would have been similar if Tennessee had won this year, yeah they would have been SEC champs but only beause LSU was beat up and injured not because Tennessee was anything close to championship caliber (we wouldn't have been within 20 points of them without the injuries they have).
As I said before LSU isn't the typical "speed" team and the little 10 matches up better with them (as they typically do with the SEC West).
That same year Tennessee, the typical speed SEC East team played the little 10 champs (or maybe cochamps?) Michigan. The tight end not only outran but pulled away from every single player in the secondary. PULLED AWAY. Of course Vandy gave us a better game that year than Michigan. Wasn't that the worst bowl loss in the history of Michigan?
I suspect if LSU gets some players healthy they will waltz pretty easily over tOSU just like Florida did last year. Remember Vandy gave Florida a better game than tOSU last year too, tOSU couldn't even make a game of it.
tOSU at best would have been 4th place in the SEC this year, just like last year they would have been in about 4th-5th place in the SEC.
By the same token those true "speed" SEC teams struggle with TRUE power running Big 12 teams. If you have that matchup bet on it every time cause the Big 12 will win it just like the SEC will beat the little 10 the great majority of the time.
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Last edited by Rip on 12-03-2007 at 12:29 AM
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