I do not think Stanford is picked over us bc they have a reputation of traveling horribly.
They have a hard time drawing decent attendance for PAC 10 games.
Ironically Oregon holding on to win by 2 has already helped us more than if CAL had won. It's kind of hard for the BCS shills to hold a 5 point win against us at the same time they prop up Oregon's 2 point win as a mark of a good team. If the Oregon Cal game had been a couple of weeks ago they would be blasting us, however on the same day, they can't.
The voters love Oregon right now, so do the talking heads. With a loss, Oregon would have dropped to 5 or 6. TCU would have been crucified for a 5 point win and Boise probably would have jumped us in the polls. With the 2 point win, Oregon is already being praised for doing what it had to do to stay unbeaten. It is a Little difficult for the talking heads to then immediately start talking about TCU being overrated for only beating SDSU by 5. Although I suppose they could wait until after a commercial break and do it figuring no one would remember what they had just said about Oregon.I don't see how a two point Oregon win is better than an Oregon loss.
The voters love Oregon right now, so do the talking heads. With a loss, Oregon would have dropped to 5 or 6. TCU would have been crucified for a 5 point win and Boise probably would have jumped us in the polls. With the 2 point win, Oregon is already being praised for doing what it had to do to stay unbeaten. It is a Little difficult for the talking heads to then immediately start talking about TCU being overrated for only beating SDSU by 5. Although I suppose they could wait until after a commercial break and do it figuring no one would remember what they had just said about Oregon.
You don't think the voters are influenced by the talking heads? Even a bit?The problem with that is that the "voters" and the "talking heads" are two different groups of people.
You don't think the voters are influenced by the talking heads? Even a bit?
Cal made a 12-yard field goal? Where did they snap the ball from five-yards deep in the end zone? That was crazy the kicker took a step forward then a step back. Clearly a false start but I agree I've never seen that at any level of football.Cal actually made 12 yrd FG, then false start on kicker moved back to 17 yrd and missed it. Never seen false start on kicker but it cost Cal the win over no 1 Oregon
I think the difference was 6 points, maybe 5.May complimented TCU, saying we beat a really good team with only 2 losses and 13 points diff in those. He's right, finally..