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quote: Originally posted by favre4
LSU did win plain and simple and as i say lsu fans should be proud.As far as scheduling osu has to play the big ten schedule and can't change that.They could and should schedule tougher non conference teams.I would not call the non conference games that lsu scheduled tough either.middle tennessee 5-7,tulane 4-8,louisiana tech 5-7.At this time the big ten is down and thats a fact.This is also a fact the weak big ten has three teams that have won more than 5 national championships(OSU-7 MICH-7 MINNESOTA-6)the SEC only has one alabama-11.
You must not have been watching the game close enough. I know if I was a little 10 fan it would have been hard on me too.
The running back did NOT out run a defensive back, he outran a white linebacker that was out of position that didn't have the proper angle that STILL gained ground on him.
The "calls" in the game overwhelmingly favored the stronger team and harmed the speedy team. It was the EXACT type of officiating that the little ten would hope for to help negate the speed of the SEC, but tOSU still couldn't do it.
You may wonder what I am talking about. Plain and simple I am talking about you luckily drawing Big 12 officials that refused to call holding on the offensive line. At one point, critical third down, Dorsy from LSU was draped from behind with the tOSU lineman being dragged behind him like a Superman cape, both arms looped around his neck. Blatant, but the big 12 doesn't emphisize holding and they didn't call it. Allowing the o-line to hold allows them to use their strength against the speed of the d-line. If you think it was bad in the game, if they had not allowed holding it would have been pure murder.
Note I did not say they "cheated" for tOSU, they didn't call holding against LSU either, case in point that proves my point is that they didn't have one single holding call all night. They called it straight up, it's just that not calling holding benifits the slow plodding team and hurts the speed team.
As for schedule, Tennessee year in and year out has one of the toughest schedules in the nation, and they play home and homes with those teams. Miami, ND, Cal, UCLA, on and on. They are still the team that has the highest strenght of schedule and still able to win a NC (7th that year in SOS).
Speed kills and once again the SEC speed killed a little 10 team, and LSU isn't considered fast for an SEC team.
Last but not least, when you count the NC's you are counting years when they didn't allow anyone outside of the midwest to win a national championship. You are actually counting a year in which General Neyland went undfeated and UNSCORED UPON (the last team to do so) while defeating the #1 team twice but in the final ballot they leapfrogged another team with a loss ahead of them becasue they didn't want to encourage the "south". You can count them if you want, but that still don't help the little 10 withstand the superior talent and speed of the SEC.
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