Am I crazy? Try this on for size.
This weekend....(4) Missouri beats (2) Kansas
(3) West Virginia beats (20) UConn
(1) LSU in a panic over the thought of Miles bolting for Mich., the team falls to Darren McFadden and the Arkansas Razorbacks
It's McFadden's chance to win the Heisman on National TV, a Friday no other big games really on except for Texas vs Texas A&M. It's the Hogs chance to save their season to a certain extent. Plus they are playing for Coach Houston Nutt for possibly the last time. They will more than likely play in a bowl, but what better way to show you care than playing your heart out for your coach and beating the #1 team in the nation on their turf?
After this weekend the BCS standing will breakdown like this....
(1) Missouri will leap frog West Virginia because they played the higher ranked team.
(2) West Virginia could conceivably be in the drivers seat
(3) Ohio State moves up because all the rankings have been this season is nothing more than an escalator, and
(4) Georgia who won't even get to play in the SEC Championship game but is ranked the highest in the Conference
The next weekend...
Missouri loses to Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship game because it's the only way the Sooners can manage to salvage their season
WVU beats Pitt in the 100th Backyard Brawl
Ohio State sits on the couch and watches the whole thing unravel and then is handed a place in the National Championship Game on a silver platter.
The Craziest Season in recent college football memory ends and the media is left scratching their heads and asking the question WHY? They also have 38 days to discount West Virginia's cred by saying that if it wasn't for every other team losing the Mountaineers wouldn't even be here. Tim Brando of CBS will be the one who fires the first shot, and oh yes, we can't forget Colin Cowherd who thinks the Big East should move down a level into the Sub Championship bracket. OK that's maybe exaggerating it a little but Colin has been less than nice to the conference, and the Mountaineers.
Ohio State fans get excited because this should be a cake walk.
Hold on to your hats fans....last year it was the Boise State Broncos who were, I believe 17 point, underdogs to the Oklahoma Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl, and those same West Virginia Mountaineers were 12 point underdogs in the 2006 Sugar Bowl to the Georgia Bulldogs, both won their respective games handing college football what could have been a sign of the birth of the new age of college football. Maybe the establishment has some company and those teams aren't going to be able to walk over the mid-level teams any longer.
Call me crazy, but I said after the Mountaineers loss to South Florida, "If West Virginia wins out they will play for a National Championship." Save your breath when talking about WVU's weak schedule. Focus on Kansas and Missouri's before you criticize the Mountaineers.
Maybe I am not so crazy after all.
1 comment:
Another solid post. Good observations, good writing.
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