FSU will be BCS #1 today.
Oh...FSU would roll a few...
Certainly Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, Michigan State (who was beaten by Notre dame who Pitt beat..and who only put up 14 points on Purdue and Minnesota). Heck, if Michigan State loses to Ohio State, we willsee FSU roll the Buckeyes.
Florida wasn't a great team and had a very bad offense...but they were Top Ten in Total Defense...and FSU, far and away, scored more points on them then did an SEC team.
But..if you don't have much to cheer for, it is always good to have something to cheer against.
I take it you will not be cheering for FSU?
It's a huge mistake, esp in CF, to play the who beat who game, eventually such irrational thinking doesn't make sense and the circularity and senselessness gets you dizzy. But hey now, let's play the game you started:
- Everybody and their mother thinks the Pac12 is the second best conference, yet ND, who lost to Pitt, beat USC and ASU & certainly played Stanford close. Btw, Stanford lost to Utah, yes Utah, the same team who lost to Washington State & Stanford destroyed Washington State. Want some more examples? Too bad, I have some more.
- I mean Oregon beat Va pretty badly, as bad as Clemson, yet Oregon got punished by unranked AZ, who was in turn punished by ASU. So does ND (remember they beat ASU) equal Clemson and Oregon because they beat ASU? They lost to Pitt right? The polls don't think so as well, since ND is now unranked. Didn't Miami just beat Pitt at their place by 10? Pitt beat Duke, but Duke clobbered Miami. SCar lost to Tenn, a team who got smoked by Oregon & won a grand total of 2 SEC games. And what about FSU only beating BC by 14? BC lost to USC by 4 TDs, and Kiffin was still the coach
. Remember, ND beat USC, yet lost to Pitt. BC also got smoked by UNC, a team who lost by 24 to ECU. Btw, what conference does ECU play in ? I haven't a clue.
Other notes:
MSU, btw, was amid a huge public QB crisis when they played ND. Things have settled since. Which leads to my next batch of points, that may help explain the madness above.
CF is all about match ups, venues, rivalries, injuries, momentum, motivation - many of the players are just teenagers & these are not professionally paid athletes yet. Thus distractions can kill a team's focus. For example, injury point, people forget Braxton Miller was injured much of the early season. He has only really played out of his injury the past few games, today's Braxton Miller leads OSU in much bigger wins against NW, Iowa and Wisconsin, early season games. Georgia has been pulverized by injuries, which started in their loss to Clemson & didn't end for much of the season. I don't think Tenn beats a healthy SCar team, who at the time of that game, was wiped out
The reason FSU does not go through a BIG schedule like the ACC, weather and the consistency of run oriented teams. FSU would also have a helluva travel schedule in the BIG. There may be some cold weather venues in the ACC, but not like the BIG, and the venues of the BIG are much bigger as well. You can't air it out every game & the speed game dramatically diminishes at sub 50 degrees and gets exponentially effected as the temperature drops.
But yeah, FSU would roll a lot of BIG teams, just not as many as in the ACC. On the other hand, FSU rolling OSU, you may win, but you're not playing a Tressel coached Buckeyes, and you're not an SEC team, a sort of hex OSU can't seem to shake. A handful of teams can play with FSU, just not in the ACC, this year. I would love to see FSU play any of the following: Bama, Auburn, Mizzou, OkSt, Stanford & OSU - all would give better games than the ACC's best. OSU's secondary is what loses the game against FSU & their secondary is barely good at times. But they will hang with you for a good part of the game & they have a pain in the ass run game, something quite similar to BC, perhaps better. Remember, Hyde didn't play the first few games.
I like this FSU team, it's about time you all got back to the big stage again. But you were never really far, talent has been there, it's just really hard to replace a legend. I think you win it all. At the end of the day, the Florida schools have ruled CF for much of the past 25 years - a phenomenon that goes under the radar lately. But these schools should dominate. Fla, at end of the day, has the best overall hs talent. You have per capita talent that typically equals a smaller state like La, yet produce quantity on par with Tx and Ca, both being more populated states, and by decent margins.
