Final College Football Polls

[Archie Bunker]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/colle...all/appoll.htm

AP

1. LSU
2. Georgia
3. USC
4. Missouri
5. Ohio St.
6. West Virginia
7. Kansas
8. Oklahoma
9. Virginia Tech
10. Boston College


http://www.usatoday.com/sports/colle...l/usatpoll.htm

Coaches

1. LSU
2. USC
3. Georgia
4. Ohio St.
5. Missouri
6. West Virginia
7. Kansas
8. Oklahoma
9. Virginia Tech
10. Texas

[irishjayhawk]

Originally Posted by Cochise

You could really see the difference in that game. In the KU game, it looked like our O-line was dominating, but against Oklahoma they could barely do anything. If we want to compete against top teams like that, we need to upgrade the line. Plus it would make our offense even more deadly.

Well, that's what pissed me off about our game plan. Our D-Line doesn't get sacks by itself. When it does, it's when we blitz LBs. If you watched the Orange Bowl, all the sacks were because of LBs blitzing and either DEs getting the QB as he tries to get away or LBs simply taking him down.

But, in the MU game, since we continually - for some reason - played Rivera, our slowest LB - in coverage against none other than Maclin, we couldn't get enough pressure. And it showed.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by irishjayhawk

I don't understand the last polls, but I don't really care. We won the Orange Bowl!


Now, for semantics:

1) I don't see how you hype up the BCS bowls and then the winners don't get to accrue the top 5 slots.
2) If you throw point 1 out, I don't see how Missouri and KU aren't back to back, and probably with Missouri in front based on their bowl performance and their argument of their claim to a BCS bowl.
3) The final poll seems to indicate why CFB never has parity - this year being an exception. It's all about name and nothing more. For Kansas or Missouri to TRULY turn the corner, they have to do 2-3x what other schools (Nebraska, comes to mind) who are having down years need to do to get back up. I just don't see how Kansas wins the Orange Bowl and teams like USC, tOSU, and Oklahoma can jump a BCS bowl winner. That, to me, sends the message: We don't want parity. We want our NAMES!

Missouri was ranked ahead of Kansas when Kansas was selected by the Orange Bowl scumbags in the first place. Kansas never deserved to be placed in a higher tiered game than Missouri and shouldn't have been in a BCS game in the first place.

The final rankings clearly reflect widespread national acknowledgement of this fact.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by Archie Bunker

Rumor has it the big commit is former Nebraska recruit OL Dan Hoch. #1 prospect in Iowa and 20th ranked guard according to rivals.com.

I'm hearing the same thing here in STL.

Also, with the commitment of Wes Helm, his 2005 Class 6 Championship teammate Munir Prince has decided to transfer to Mizzou from Notre Dame and is expected to play cornerback.

Ironic, considering that Prince's stepdad was my wife's old boss, and the reason I followed Notre Dame. He was buried on the depth chart at RB, and moved him to CB this year, where he played in 10 games and registered 3 tackles and 1 pass breakup.

Good kid. He's quick and instinctive, but on the small side. Something like 5-9 or 5-10 and about 180. Haven't seen him since early in the year, maybe he's bulked up a bit.

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by irishjayhawk

Well, that's what pissed me off about our game plan. Our D-Line doesn't get sacks by itself. When it does, it's when we blitz LBs. If you watched the Orange Bowl, all the sacks were because of LBs blitzing and either DEs getting the QB as he tries to get away or LBs simply taking him down.

But, in the MU game, since we continually - for some reason - played Rivera, our slowest LB - in coverage against none other than Maclin, we couldn't get enough pressure. And it showed.

I dunno, ask the coach of the year about that

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by frazod

That would rock. We need to upgrade the line on both sides. That's where the Gooners killed us.

It's a done deal.

[ROYC75]

Originally Posted by HolyHandgernade

I could care less about the final poll. Once they decide who will play for the national championship, what does it matter? Five years from now, would you rather recall your season as, "We finished (some number after 1)" or "We won the Orange Bowl." Nothing will ever detract from the enormous success this season was for KU football. Rock Chalk!

-HH

Bingo ...... we have a winner.

[ROYC75]

By the looks of things, 4 thru 7 are really close .......All within 44 points. That tells me the writers see little diffrence between those schools.

RANK TEAM RECORD PTS LAST
1 LSU (60) 12-2 1620 2
2 Georgia (3) 11-2 1515 4
3 Southern Cal (1) 11-2 1500 6
4 Missouri 12-2 1347 7
5 Ohio St. 11-2 1346 1
6 West Virginia 11-2 1342 11
7 Kansas (1) 12-1 1303 8
8 Oklahoma 11-3 1139 3
9 Virginia Tech 11-3 1096 5
10 Boston College 11-3 962 14

[kcpasco]

To all KU fans
It kinda sucks to get shafted doesn't it?

This is why we need a damn playoff system

[ChiefGator]

Originally Posted by DaKCMan AP

The vast majority of SEC fans cheer on the conference against OOC opponents during bowl season. We all have great pride in our conference, believe it's the best, and want to prove it. We want to beat the crap out of our rivals as much as anyone else during the regular season, but once it's bowl season it's SEC vs Everyone else.

Thus, during last year's championship game for Florida and at last night's game for LSU - during the waning moments one of the chants heard on TV was "SEC! SEC! SEC!". It's all about conference pride.

This is absolutely true. I was rooting on LSU as the SEC team yesterday. Not sure if I could actually root for Georgia and I know I will never root for the Vols. But outside those two, I pull for any SEC team.l

[HolyHandgernade]

Originally Posted by kcpasco

To all KU fans
It kinda sucks to get shafted doesn't it?

This is why we need a damn playoff system

I don't feel bad at all. Oh, look, we even got a first place vote, how many did you get?

-HH

[Tits McGee]

Up is up.

[KcMizzou]

That'll work.

Now I'm just bummed that the season's over.

I'd like to thank Mizzou and KU for stepping up and entertaining us right when the Chiefs went in the toilet.

[irishjayhawk]

Originally Posted by KcMizzou

That'll work.

Now I'm just bummed that the season's over.

I'd like to thank Mizzou and KU for stepping up and entertaining us right when the Chiefs went in the toilet.

Yep.

[ROYC75]

Originally Posted by kcpasco

To all KU fans
It kinda sucks to get shafted doesn't it?

This is why we need a damn playoff system

Not at all ....... If you had told me to start the year KU would be 12 - 1, win the Orange Bowl and ranked # 7 in the final polls, I would have kindly asked you to pass over what you were smoking....... And I don't smoke.

I'm happy with this season and a good start to building a foundation of good football at KU.

[Coach]

Either way, Overmatched State University shouldn't be in the BCS championship game next year, ESPECIALLY if their opponent is a SEC team.