ESPN.com’s Mark Schlabach has been assigned the task of predicting the ’08 season—during the winter of 2008, as opposed to the customary summer. First, he gave America this the morning after LSU defeated Ohio State in that fake title game.
5. USC
The Trojans played like the best team in the country in their final four games [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Arkansas, Cal, Illinois, LSU, Ohio State, Oregon, Recruiting, USC, Virginia | No Comments »This time from the LA Daily News:
Want to know how otherworldly USC’s football program has become?
That USC team that just pushed Illinois around all over the Rose Bowl on Tuesday might be the best team in the country.
And the worst USC team in the past six years.
Also, I like how this article includes the stat [...]
Posted in BCS, Illinois, USC | 2 Comments »Key paragraph from Schlabach’s piece:
The No. 7 Trojans are better than both No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 LSU, which will play for the BCS championship Monday night in the Louisiana Superdome. The Buckeyes couldn’t even beat No. 13 Illinois, which was so clearly overmatched by USC. It’s a shame the Trojans can’t play [...]
It’s a good thing the Rose Bowl was more interested in preserving its “tradition,” because USC-Georgia wouldn’t have been nearly as fun to watch or as relevant as USC-Illinois and Hawaii-Georgia. I hope those bowl ratings Gordon Gee was hiding behind are absolutely soaring with this slate.
Posted in BCS, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, USC | No Comments »Turns out the folks behind the Kansas City Star’s playoff bracket have done a little simulation of their own, which they call December Madness. Currently they’ve settled on the Final Four: OSU vs. OU and Va Tech vs. SC (who beat LSU to get there, by the way).
Also, they’ve predicted each of the bowl games. [...]
In addition to the aforementioned fake playoffs, now we can have instant gratification/dissatisfaction with the current system: just run the College Football Playoffs Simulations from ESPN.
CommishRob’s first simulation? SC wins it all.
CommishPhil’s didn’t go so well, as Hawaii thrashed USC in the first round (using the BCS seeding).
Mine (using the ESPN Power 16 seeding) had [...]