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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 876504, member: 874"] I didn't say you knocked Miami. I said the system did. If it works one way one year it has to work the same way in other years. BTW, Miami was dominant that year too. They beat #1 FSU, #2 Virginia Tech by 20 and # 7 Florida by 17, in addition to all of their other blow outs. The biggest difference was that they played their first ranked team on the road the second week of the season. Oklahoma didn't see a ranked team until October. And it's not as if they didn't have some tight games. They squeaked by a 3-8 Oklahoma State team with a score of 12-7. Kansas had one fewer loss than LSU and they also beat Virginia Tech. Kansas's one loss was to a Missouri team that finished at #7 and LSU's second loss was to unranked (at the time) Arkansas. The primary problem here is that teams were judged too much against what they had done the previous year. Had Kansas had a good year in 2006 they would've had a higher preseason rank and wouldn't have had as far to climb when teams in front of them lost. The main point is, and you keep missing this so I'll put it in bold for you, [B]we can't know for sure because it wasn't settled on the field.[/B] If we played the "they beat this team who beat this team by this much" game this year, we'd say FSU wins last night by at least 35 because they crushed Clemson who beat a healthy Georgia team that Auburn had to get lucky to beat even though, when Auburn played them, they had a bunch of injuries. It doesn't work unless it's settled on the field. And with Alabama-vs-LSU, I always thought kicking was part of football. I think Alabama would agree. Just ask them about the Ironbowl this year. You keep ignoring the general points being made. If the regular season is going to mean something (and that was the argument), then the LSU win [B]at[/B] Alabama ( I'll repeat, it was a conference win on the road) should count as much as the neutral site win Alabama had. Why are you trying so hard to defend a system that had so many flaws in it? Check your ego for a moment, and see that, far too often, it didn't allow things to be handled on the field. [/QUOTE]

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