This Midwestern tradition-laden football team that played in the Fiesta Bowl last year and lost 41-14 to an ubertalented SEC team this year with a Heisman contender at QB thanks largely to crappy defense and O-line play proves definitively that they didn't deserve this BCS berth. (Complete sarcasm BTW)
Hey, Alvarez. Hey, Davis. TROY SMITH ACCEPTED MONEY ILLEGALLY FROM A BOOSTER. HE IS NOT A PARAGON OF MORALITY. It pisses me off how people paint guys like Smith that "overcame" tough circumstances but still don't live virtuous lives as class acts while the people that never do stupid things to begin with are totally ignored.
Absolute horsecrap call against Duhon. Why does this always happen to us on our home floor in tight games? Once again the refs take away the Bulls' last chance to win.
My wife made the same comment. I had no idea what song they were playing. One more thing I cannot stand about OSU, They are so proud of their band. The members acturally wear TBDBL (The Best Damn Band in the Land) t-shirts around campus. I dont get it either. Its just a college band. Fans buy CD's of the band playing. What the hell. I have an ND band CD (although I only play it during Irish games).
Shouldn't have been high in the first place, but there you go. When a national-TV analyst (Alvarez) actually says that the key to stopping the other team's offense is forcing them to pass the ball with a Heisman-winning QB, maybe your NFL stock is a tad iffy.
If so, that's the Cingular All-America POY, voted on completely by fans. There are more ND fans than any other school, so you do the math. I don't think that particular award is meant to be taken very seriously.
ND only falls to 22 - still ahead of Georgetown at 26, who just whipped us. Seems the voters have decided it was a fluke. They're probably right, but we'll see what happens when the Mountaineers visit tomorrow night.
But hasn't the AP disaffiliated from the BCS since then? Does the NCAA recognize the AP polls at all at this point? The NCAA has recognized the AP since the 1930s, I'm sure we would have heard if they'd changed their mind.