By a show of hands, I’d like to know how many people had the Missouri Tigers as the #1-ranked team in the polls heading into the final week of the College Football regular season. Anybody?
I imagine if I asked that to a room of 100 college football fans, everyone in the room would be looking around to see if any hands were in the air.
I hope everyone enjoys watching Missouri and West Virginia duke it out for the National Championship on January 7th. I’ll be enjoying the comfort of a bed 9,000 miles away.
For the third straight year, I will in India when the National Championship is decided. And this year, I will not be scrambling to find a way to tune into the game. I will be sleeping like a baby and I won’t shed a tear when I wake up.
Missouri and West Virginia just doesn’t get my blood pumping like USC and Texas two years ago. That was a match-up we saw coming for weeks. USC and Texas were 1-2, respectively, in every week of the BCS standings that year, except for Week 8, when Texas was #1 and USC was #2. USC was dubbed “the greatest team ever” by the mass media and the Vince Young-led Longhorns weren’t supposed to have a chance to win the game.
Don’t get me wrong, I like watching both teams run their offenses. I wish more teams used Missouri’s Run and Shoot offense. I’d love to see more teams spread five Wide Receivers out on every play. And the speed of West Virginia, with Pat White, Steve Slaton and Noel Divine, make them extremely entertaining to watch.
But the Tigers and the Mountaineers just doesn’t have the punch to make me get up at 5 a.m. this year.
What would cause me to wake up at such an odd hour while on my vacation?
A rather complicated scenario, actually. Follow me on this.
The simple part involves Missouri losing to Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship and West Virginia losing to Pittsburgh on Saturday, thus eliminating both from the title picture. Ohio State, needing just one of those two teams to lose, would claim one of two vacant spots.
Now here’s is where things get tricky, and a little wishful thinking comes into play.
Watching ESPN’s BCS expert Brad Edwards recently, he went over the possible scenarios in order for LSU, the team I still feel is the best team in the nation, to make the National Championship game.
Right now, LSU is #7 in the rankings. They need Mizzou and WVU to lose. Then they need to handle their business in the SEC Championship game against Tennessee. Their chances are greatly improved if Boston College can beat Virginia Tech in the Big East title game, but VaTech doesn’t necessarily have to lose.
If all of this happens, the voters would have no choice but put LSU above Kansas and Georgia, both idle. If Missouri, West Virginia and Virginia Tech all lose this weekend, that leaves Ohio State and LSU as the last teams standing.
Now that would get me up at an ungodly time during my vacation.
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After all the event of last night, it seems as though my wish will come true, and I may actually be waking up very early in the morning on January 11th in Bombay. I had a massive headache last night, so I slept through the Mizzou-Ou game and the West Virginia-Pitt game. When I woke up, my dad broke the news to me. I was too out of it to put everything together, but now it looks like LSU will leapfrog VaTech in the rankings today.
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