Who Deserves The Irish?

I don’t understand why everyone’s default position about the most talented or best team in college football this year always goes to Alabama.  They have played two teams that are good enough to beat them all year and they are 1-1.  I’m not saying the SEC isn’t the best conference in the country, they are, and I don’t know that there is even a close second.  But if the third best team you played all year is Michigan, you didn’t play a tough schedule regardless of the conference patch on your jersey.  Alabama has beat the snot out of teams that are terrible………Western Kentucky, Western Carolina, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Florida Atlantic………….and they have looked very pedestrian against teams that are half decent. 

Calm down guys, we can still lose and it won't matter

I think when it comes down to the BCS National Championship Game, it should be about what teams deserve to play in that game.  With Notre Dame running the table against a schedule that included Michigan, Michigan State, BYU, Oklahoma, Stanford, and USC, there is no doubt in anyone’s mind, they deserve to be there.  So, what team deserves to play them in the title game given who they beat and who they lost to this year?  As a Florida State Seminoles fan, my answer may surprise you.

Florida

Below is a list of teams with one loss and teams they have beaten with 3 losses or less and the team they loss to and how many points they lost to them by.  This presents a resume of quality wins after the season is all played out.  Sure Kansas State beat West Virginia and at the time, WV was ranked pretty high, but as the schedule played out, that win shouldn’t mean as much since West Virginia ended up not being that good.  That seems like a pretty good measurement of who you’ve played, lost to, and beat after things all shake out.  Alabama set the precedent last year that says you don’t even need to play in your conference title game to play in the National Championship so don’t use that against Florida this year.

Florida

Texas A&M, LSU, South Carolina, Florida State

Jean shorts yes, number two, also yes

Georgia (-8)

Alabama

LSU

Texas A&M (-5)

Georgia

Florida

South Carolina (-28)

Oregon

Oregon State

Stanford (-3)

Kansas State

Oklahoma

Baylor (-28)

Manti T'eo deserves to win the Heisman Trophy

I think the National Championship game should be between the two schools I hate the most, Notre Dame and Florida.  They both have played the toughest schedules, one ran the table and one lost a game after a fumble on the goal line.  If every game really does matter, then the game needs to be determined after every game is played and not based on WHEN losses happen.  Currently, it’s all about WHEN you lose in college football and it takes away part of the entire body of work.  If Alabama had lost to A&M last week and still been playing for the SEC Championship this weekend, we would be outraged to suggest they could just win one game and be in.  The same goes for Georgia.  They got HOUSED by South Carolina and if that happened this past Saturday, they would not even be in a discussion for the right to play in Miami January 7^th.  

You need to look at the entire body of work, and for as much as I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE to say it, Florida and Notre Dame have the most impressive resumes right now and there is nothing any other team can do this weekend to convince me otherwise.