Here's my final top 10 (assuming a Texas win): 1. Texas 2. USC 3. Ohio State 4. Penn State 5. West Virginia 6. Virginia Tech 7. UCLA 8. Oregon 9. Alabama 10. LSU The reasons I think it shakes out this way are: 1. Ohio State and West Virginia are already getting a lot of hype for their bowl performances. 2. Having UGA and Auburn lay down in their bowl games diminished the SEC in many people's eyes. 3. The national story coming out of the Peach Bowl IS NOT how LSU manhandled Miami, rather it is how bad Miami has become to allow themselves to lose in such a fashion to LSU, which many considered to be a weak opponent for the Canes. 4. No way, if Joe Pa and the Lions win tonight, will he be ranked anywhere outside of the top 5. All things considered, anything in the top 10 is fine with me. LSU never really put it all together this season, but we still took care of business 11 times out of 13, and that, my friends, is outstanding. GEAUX TIGAHS!!!!
Are you insane?! Oregon lost their bowl, and we beat Alabama. Further, Miami tarred and feathered VT...no way they're ranked ahead of us. UCLA???? Tell me you're kidding. Please? You're assuming we don't move up at all?
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No, I don't smoke crack or anything else, and NO that's not how I would vote. That is what I think will end up being the top 10 in the polls. As impressive as WE think LSU's win was, the national media aren't thinking the same way. Listen to them on TV and on the radio. Read the columns. It's all about how Miami has lost its luster, not how LSU finally played to its potential. Couple that with the fact that UGA, which blasted us in the SEC title game, and Auburn, which many thought was the best team in the SEC, both choked BIG TIME, and you have plenty of reasons for the national media to ignore a big win. Don't you guys remember LSU dropping in the BCS after beating Auburn? Even after WE BEAT AUBURN, the national media continued to push this stupid idea that Auburn was STILL the best team in the SEC. Wins and losses don't matter to them - stories matter. Right now, West Virginia is a better story than LSU, because it beat a team that was considered a VERY GOOD team. Joe Pa, if he wins tonight, is a GREAT STORY. Virginia Tech - the media LOVE Va. Tech and believe yesterday was a great comeback - GREAT STORY. The Oregon thing was a typo. How I typed Oregon instead of Florida I'll never know. Sorry. But the point remains - Florida beat Iowa, Urban Meyer and Chris Leak are on the way up - GREAT STORY. I would love to see LSU move up to about 5th, but I think other teams leap-frog us, because we aren't the FLAVOR OF THE MONTH, and never have been.
Yeah, Florida beat Iowa...who was ranked 25th. We still beat their ass, just like Alabama. How does Bama squeak by a team not even in Miami's league and leapfrog us??? I don't know where you're getting this thing about our national perception. Our showing Friday night is what the rest of the nation thought we'd do with regularity heading into the season. We finally lived up to the hype, and everyone knows it. Sorry dude, but your rankings are so wrong it's not even funny.
I hope I'm wrong but we'll see. There are certain teams that the media love. Miami was one of them. One of the ways they can stomach LSU beating the crap out of the Canes is jump on someone else's bandwagon. LSU was the story for one day, and it was great day for us. Since then, the hype machines have been rolling for a bunch of other teams. We'll see. Again, I hope I'm wrong, but the media have VERY short memories. Did you see the "Top Plays of the Bowl Games" on ESPN this morning. No mention of LSU at all. All of the other media darlings had at least one play in their top ten - UCLA, WVU, FL, Ohio State. After the top two, the voters will vote more based upon who they want at the top next year than what happened on the field this year.
That makes no sense whatsoever. Going into the bowl games, at 2-loss LSU team was ranked ahead of a 1-loss W. Va team. LSU crushes another top 10 team by 37 points...and somehow falls *behind* the same W. Va. team it was ranked *ahead of* prior to the game?? WTF??? Voters are fickle, sure, but gimme a break.
