Does Louisville Deserve to be in the BCS Title Game?
Who is more deserving to be in the BCS Title Game: Undefeated Louisville, or once beaten Florida? Now, if the question had become West Virginia or Florida, I'd go with Florida in a heartbeat. But my opinion is that Louisville deserves to be there.
Why Louisville and not West Virginia? You know, it was interesting, I can't remember who I heard talking about it, it was one of the national pundits anyway, but he was talking about Thursday's game and he was saying that it's one thing if htey have a weak conference, they can't do anything about that, but his problem with both of these teams was their out of conference schedules. And I was thinking whoa, wait a minute. Did he even look at Louisville's schedule? We're not talking about the Northwestern South Dakota Polytechnical schools here. They had Miami, Kansas State and Kentucky. At the start of the season if you'd have looked at that schedule you'd have had to agree that was a pretty good job of scheduling out of conference, possibly too good.
Right now, strenght of schedule for Louisville is looking pretty good for them. After the defections to the ACC, I was one of those who questioned whether the Big East should be a BCS conference, but this year I'd dare to say they're looking stronger than the ACC. Whoda thunk it?
But in the end, this is why I don't want to let everything hinge on just the subjective polls. Those polls had West Virginia as number 3 even though everyone knew they didn't deserve to be there - in fact many writers would say as much. After looking at the whole season, why would they have had West Virginia #3 and Louisville #5? The only answer possible is, no one's heard of Louisville.
My prediction is this: Louisville, if they win out, will get the #2 spot in the BCS final standings. And there will be a howl that is maybe louder than we heard in 2003 when darlings Florida, Texas, Notre Dame and either Ohio STate or Michigan get left out. And I'll be sitting here thinking yep, the BCS got it right.
Why Louisville and not West Virginia? You know, it was interesting, I can't remember who I heard talking about it, it was one of the national pundits anyway, but he was talking about Thursday's game and he was saying that it's one thing if htey have a weak conference, they can't do anything about that, but his problem with both of these teams was their out of conference schedules. And I was thinking whoa, wait a minute. Did he even look at Louisville's schedule? We're not talking about the Northwestern South Dakota Polytechnical schools here. They had Miami, Kansas State and Kentucky. At the start of the season if you'd have looked at that schedule you'd have had to agree that was a pretty good job of scheduling out of conference, possibly too good.
Right now, strenght of schedule for Louisville is looking pretty good for them. After the defections to the ACC, I was one of those who questioned whether the Big East should be a BCS conference, but this year I'd dare to say they're looking stronger than the ACC. Whoda thunk it?
But in the end, this is why I don't want to let everything hinge on just the subjective polls. Those polls had West Virginia as number 3 even though everyone knew they didn't deserve to be there - in fact many writers would say as much. After looking at the whole season, why would they have had West Virginia #3 and Louisville #5? The only answer possible is, no one's heard of Louisville.
My prediction is this: Louisville, if they win out, will get the #2 spot in the BCS final standings. And there will be a howl that is maybe louder than we heard in 2003 when darlings Florida, Texas, Notre Dame and either Ohio STate or Michigan get left out. And I'll be sitting here thinking yep, the BCS got it right.
posted by Ron @ 10:17 AM
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