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[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

> Ah, but 'legitimate' is the problem.  Do you honestly

Exactly - no one has a "legitimate" claim and it's one of the only bad things about college football. Even worse is the B(C)S trying to claim that their title is legitimate. I think just about every single player and coach (not to mention most fans) would trade a REAL shot on the field for any mythical claim to #1. The competitor in them wants to see.

> think Boise State
> would go undefeated if they played Oklahoma's schedule, or

But that's not the point - the point is that Utah demolished Alabama on SEC turf in the Sugar Bowl, Boise State outplayed Oklahoma in the desert and the Broncos beat Oregon the past couple times they've played.

We'll never know about "if they played XXX's schedule" because only a few teams (Oregon to their credit is one of them) will even schedule them - and seldom on the little guy's turf.

But we can know how they match up in a bowl game and Utah and Boise State are 4-0 in B(C)S bowls -- looking far better than Big East or ACC teams.

The absolute worst thing for the B(C)S this year would be for Boise State and Utah/TCU to go 12-0 and both get shut out of the title game in favor of a 1-loss Alabama or Oklahoma. It would make the system even more of a mockery, if that's possible, and the idiotic B(C)S fix would probably be to force the Rose Bowl to give both spots to the B(C)S buster conferences or something nonsensical like that.

The next worst thing would be TCU vs. Boise, or Utah vs. Boise, because people wouldn't see a win there as legit because they didn't beat a power league.

The problem for the B(C)S is that they're looking at a whole bunch of bad scenarios right now. Any combo of Auburn, MSU and Mizzou going unbeaten and not winding up in the title game because their initial ranking was so low, despite making it through a big-time league would be bad. Having a string of #1-goes-down weeks would be exciting in the regular season, but could create a scenario like the year of a 2-loss LSU team being in the title game (at home) or some crazy computer shenanigans.

> Oregon has to play USC on the road this week, will it be
> four weeks in a row that a #1 team gets knocked off on the road? 
> 
I'm sure ABC will be hyping it as such ... but the Ducks really don't have to worry about much except losing a shootout at Oregon State, since they get a banged up Zona at home.

> I'm hoping the Cats can forget they're only two plays away
> from being
> 7-0 (and not that many plays away from being 3-4) and
> concentrate 
> on the upcoming game against Indiana.  And FINISH!

AMEN! We need to get that sixth win now and not play around in November.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT