Originally posted by: mpitts
Originally posted by: lederhosen
Originally posted by: touchmyichi
Of course Mich should be #2
1. USC lost to a freaking unranked team.
2. Florida almost loses most games and got owned to a 2 loss auburn.
3. Arkansas got blown out by USC
4. ND got throttled by Mich at home.
5. Michigan gave ND and Wisconsin their only losses, killed ND on the road, and lost by 3 points to a #1 team who has been dominating all year. Michigan's loss was easily the most respectable and closest out of all the 1 loss contenders.
How does this not make sense? Michigan IS the second best team in the country, none of the other one loss teams can even touch them or would be able to beat them if they had a match. Hell, I even know some USC fans who would rather go to Rose Bowl just because they know OSU would kill them.
1. True
2. Florida average margin of victory = 16.63 Michigan average margin of victory = 15.5833 Also, I don't think you can talk about other teams almost losing when Michigan comes within 8 of losing to BALL STATE.
3. I don't know how you can equate their first game with how their playing now. McFadden didn't even hardly play in the game. They are an entirely different team, but yes they lost.
4. True
5. Wisconsin hasn't played anybode else, so congratulations.
If Florida beats Arkansas I think they deserve to play in the NC. Florida has played arguable the toughest schedule in the country and have only come up short once.
Lastly, how in the hell is Michigan still ranked #2 in some human polls? Every year the pollsters vote the same way; you lose you fall spots. So now just because they lose to the #1 team they don't drop? That's crap. I don't see how anyone can justify the double standard of Michigan not dropping.
Florida v Vanderbilt - 25-19 Florida
Arkansas v Vanderbilt - 21-19 Arkansas
Michigan v Vanderbilt - 27-7 Michigan
And as for your "Florida has played arguably the toughest schedule", it's actually projected to the 7th most difficult.. behind Michigan's 4th best and USC's 1st. So yes, they have played a difficult schedule and it projects to be a top 10 schedule, but it rated as the weakest of the top three 1-loss teams.
And the reason that Michigan didn't fall in the polls (which they did.. to 3 in the two human polls the BCS uses), that is because they are perceived as being the 2nd best team in the nation. How can you tell the people that voted this way that they are wrong when they watched Michigan come within 3 points of OSU on the road? The same OSU team that everyone has said was #1 all year long.
The truth is this. If Michigan and OSU would have played in the 2nd game of the season (like OSU and Texas did) then everyone would be using the same arguments FOR a rematch (Michigan is playing better, their strength of schedule is very good, etc).
The good thing about the BCS (one of the few good things) is that it doesn't matter when you lose. I am not a BCS fan and I really don't know how I feel about a rematch, but try to be objective when you form an opinion.