How is a split-title possible this year?

[crazedcav333]

I keep hearing on radio shows/tv/message boards that no matter who wins, OSU or LSU, that many are planning to put UGA or USC as the #1 team for the final ballot. How?

In LSU's case: two losses, won the SEC championship that UGA is in. #2 team in the country, beat the #1 team in the country. How could they possibly get jumped?

In OSU's case: One loss, Big 10 champs. #1 team in the country the defeats the #2 team in the country. How could they possibly get jumped?

Sorry. Usually when a team is ranked higher than others and beats a better team, they don't get jumped. At least in my eyes. There's no chance of this happening...this is the national championship game.

 

[Cleveland56]

Will never happen.

Just another boring topic that people on radio and tv can yell at each other every day about...

 

[BlueSeats626]

Nobody who loses to 41pt underdogs should be considered National Champs.

Nor should any team who doesn't win their own conference.

 

[James]

People (the Voters) dont see LSU/osu as the 2 best teams in the country, and after seeing USC and UGA....I dont know....maybe they are the two best teams at the end of the season.

But it all boils down to what some yahoo writer, saying that USC broke the "Cardinal" rule off college football by losing to a 41 point underdog.

But maybe they will use the logic that....

USC beat Illinois who beat OSU...

either way, im sure we can expect a copied and pasted article to rebuttle any argument made against any claim.

 

[Cavs1]

maybe they are the two best teams at the end of the season.

shouldn't it be the whole season that is taken into consideration though?

 

[James]

^I have no idea, im not justifying it, im just trying to explain how I guess it could be "possible," that it could happen that way.

 

[Style]

I wouldn't want to let James down:

Q. There were a lot of reports about the Southern Cal win last night, Georgia's win and how impressive they were, they may have a legitimate claim in some circles to a national championship, do you really feel that you're playing a national championship and those guys have no say-so whatsoever, no claim to that?

COACH JIM TRESSEL: I know we're playing for that silver crystal, you know, which signifies the national championship. I think there's only two teams that have a chance at that. Now, outside -- there's other championships and polls and that type of thing. But for the one that really counts, LSU and Ohio State.

Q. Will you be able to claim that, though, or not?

COACH JIM TRESSEL: Their seasons are over and there's nothing else to talk about right now.

http://www.bucknuts.com/news/story.php?article=2623

JT is spot on, but I have two additional points. One, like Crazedcav said, I don't see how it's possible. The AP currently has OSU at #1, LSU at #2, Georgia at #4, Hawaii at #10, USC at #6, Illinois at #13. Even if OSU wins 2 to nothing, or it takes 5 OTs for a winner to be determined (i.e. one team doesn't dominate the other), I'm having a hard time envisioning a scenario where the winner of #1 vs #2 is not #1. Maybe if the #3 team had blown the doors off the #4 team (and even then it would be just a maybe), but that wasn't the case. USC and UG beat the #10 and #13 teams in the country, according to the AP poll.

Two, I'm not sure that the AP "champion" is even significant anymore. USC supposedly won a split title in 2003 when LSU won the national title game, and the only people you hear talking about how USC won a share of the title that year is USC fans. The entire rest of the world doesn't mention a split, they say LSU was the champion. They have "that silver crystal."

 

[Hurl Bruce]

If OSU wins, they will not split.

The bickering wasn't over which two deserved to be in the championship, it was who deserved to play OSU. If LSU wins...or even just wins ugly, then other teams with only 2 losses will be griping and the AP may thumb their noses at the BCS and vote someone else #1.

 

[cavincali]

USC lost to freaking stanford, why people are giving them this much credit is a joke. STANFORD FOR GOODNESS SAKE.

 

[Dungong]

If it leads to a playoff then I'm all for it happening. By the way, if a playoff were in place, there would be no mention of this co-champion crap.

But hell yeah its possible. The AP people can vote for whoever they want to, and previous rankings really don't seem to have much weight at all on the rankings the next week. How many spots does Ohio State drop (or in this case rise) every year because they take their off weeks at the end of the season? I'm not saying it makes sense, but it could happen, especially this year, especially if there are 4 two-loss teams at the end. Remember that USC started the season number 1, and they've laid out a pretty good bitching/moaning complain that they've been injured and they're the hottest team in the nation blah blah.