Now that I think about it, your kind of throwing stones at a glass house here. The triple option is a novelty offense. Very hard to prepare for and defend. However, in bowl games, given a month to prepare, a team can be much more prepared. Case in point the 2009 Peach bowl. I submit that Ga Tech will struggle in bowl games under Johnson for this reason. Just a hunch, we'll have to see how it plays out.
Here are some other interesting facts. Penn State was 4-1 against the Big 8 in Bowl games under Paterno. 4-2 if you count the Sugar Bowl that was stripped from Oklahoma for some of their numerous violations.
Penn State is 3-0 against the Big 12 in Bowl games including a demolishin of the Big 12 champs(Texas) in the 97 Fiesta Bowl.
Like Purdue, right Percy? The unranked Purdue who almost beat Oregon ... and Oregon only won by two points on a fluke and a Purdue mistake. But, you mean no other Big Ten team, right?
I completely agree with your analysis of GT's spread triple option and the possibility that it may not be as successful come bowl time. As you say, time will tell. It's just not the triple option, we have some issues on defense and in the kicking game. However, we are a much better team than we were under Chan Gailey and without a challenging schedule to identify the problem, would not necessarily have made the needed change.
However, the original post was about the Big Ten teams ranked in the second ten not GT. I may have made a mistake trying to use GT as an anology for the benefit of playing a more difficult OOC schedule and as a result confused my main point that if you don't schedule at least a couple of challenging games (and win them), don't expect a lot of sympathy for your argument when you want to be sent directly to a BSC bowl.
don't expect a lot of sympathy for your argument when you want to be sent directly to a BSC bowl. Actually, you could see from some of my previous posts that in no way do I feel Penn State deserves a BCS bid over Iowa. I think it would be flat out wrong. The nice thin about it is the consolation price for Iowa or PSU if they aren't selected is the Cap One bowl on New Years day against a pretty good ole miss team, and a chance at a top 10 finish. I actually believe the Cap One Bowl opponent would be the better than the one offered by the Fiesta or Orange Bowls, but that's a debate for another time.
I think your post an excellent conclusion to our debate; I was not intending to be personal just to separate Iowa and Ohio State from Penn State and Wisconsin - this year - in the spirit of the thread. You have been good in the debate and challenging at times - I have learned some things and appreciate that.
Best of luck to the Lions in the Bowl and on getting by Michigan State in impressive fashion today - I really did think that you would struggle more there than you did. Wisconsin was not so fortunate.
So just tell us who you would put in at these rankings. USC has fell apart so you can't say they deserve something because of what happened 10 weeks ago. They fell apart by losing to 2 ranked teams. I agree they are not as good as people think but they beat OSU at their place. Both have lost to an unranked team. So how can Ohio State be ranked higher? Answer me that and I will get back to ya. Oh you must have little knowledge of college football to make such a statement. college football current rankings are what the pollsters believe the Quality of the team is NOW. Not a couple of months ago. USC didn't just get beat they were destroyed. I ask you this question. If USC was to lose every game after the tOSU game and tOSU was to win every game would you still have USC ranked higher? Lets face it, usuing your criteria of ranking teams you would have to.
