Comments on: Jones Top Ten 2007 Final

By: kuelguapo

kuelguapo — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:55:36 +0000

…Or WVU’s win is only slightly more surprising than KU over VTech? How many people actually thought KU was for real? and yet even when they prove it on nat’l TV they move up one spot. Woo.

Don’t get me wrong, if you’d told me that the ‘hawks would finish #7 at the beginning of the year I’d have taken it in a heart beat.

It’s still frustrating, though, when they beat the #3 (#1 in BCS computer ranking) team in the nation, and have the best LONE loss of any team in the country (by one score to a top 5 team on a neutral field) and are still behind a slew of 2 loss teams…

::shrug:: But what’s in a name, right?

By: Squirrel

Squirrel — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:30:11 +0000

“Impressive Showing of the Bowl Season: West Virginia”

No doubt - biggest surprise other than Michigan/Florida, perhaps!

By: echeese

echeese — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:36:46 +0000

Again getting your ass kicked by a Steve Slaton less West Virgina does not allow you to be #5 - they also lost to Tech and Colorado

By: vvn8bs

vvn8bs — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:25:20 +0000

I’m a Mizzou fan and this is almost exactly how I would have ranked the teams. It is silly that we are ranked ahead of OU. I would have put OSU below the Big 12 teams, though.

By: Texas Curl

Texas Curl — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:12:55 +0000

Yeah, but how many 10 win seasons in a row does Cincinnati have?

By: Kelly Reed

Kelly Reed — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:10:04 +0000

I’m more and more convinced that the reason there was no USC v. Georgia match-up is b/c the winner of that game would be able to draw AP votes away from the BCS winner, creating another split national championship.

Looking at the final AP poll, where LSU was a strong winner with 60 votes, it still was not unanimous. Georgia received 3 first place votes, USC 1 and Kansas 1 (the only legitimate 1 loss team). Can you imagine the vote if Georgia dominated USC or vice-versa?

The other BCS bowls were willing to go with less attractive match-ups in order to preserve the overall system that is the BCS (which stinks).

Agree/disagree?

By: Parlin Hall

Parlin Hall — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:03:32 +0000

“My first book, Rose Bowl Dreams: a Memoir of Faith, Family and Football, will be released by St. Martin’s Press just in time for a new football season.”

Congrats! Can’t wait to see the SIPs ( = Statistically Improbable
Phrases) if Amazon gives you the analytical breakdown. They’re
always revealing.

By: jonestopten

jonestopten — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:55:14 +0000

Yeah, well cheese you shouldn’t lose twice and be number one, or lose to Pitt or Stanford and be in the top five, or be strummed by Tennessee and be number two…

Funny year.

Michigan at ten is not much of a stretch. Their competition is BC and our own beloved Horns. I am probably punishing the ones I love, but very little about Texas said top ten to me this year. Cynicism is an ugly thing.

By: echeese

echeese — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:00:16 +0000

You can’t get creamed and be in the top 5

Get OU out of there

By: Unbiased Horn

Unbiased Horn — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:21:22 +0000

The Michigan team that had a month to get healthy really pounded Florida. That game could have been a lot worse if not for the Hart fumbles inside the 5 yd line. There aren’t a whole lot of worthy candidates that I can think of at 10.