My Favorite Blank

The SEC Football Conference in college football has won 5 National Titles in a row. If they will let a team from the South play in the big game, you know which school will win. It’s hard to get an accurate gauge on college football. We are led to believe the Pac 10 college football teams are just as good as the ACC and SEC teams. The Pac 10 is not even a close comparison to the size and the speed of the typical football players, who get brought up in a southern atmosphere.

The number 1 offensive team in college football was the Oregon Ducks. They blew away every team they played this year, with the exception of a road game in the California Golden Bears football stadium. The Ducks only managed to put up 15 points in that close contest, but they still won the game, since the Bears could only score 13 points against the Oregon defense. After looking at this game, your next lowest scoring game by the Ducks was 37 points! This was also a road game, so their low scoring games are happening at their opponents football stadiums. Continuing with this same pattern, the next lowest scoring games for the Oregon Ducks would be 42 points at Arizona State, 43 points at Washington State, and 48 points at Tennessee. Their lowest scoring home game would be another 48 point performance and this would come against the 20th ranked team in the country in the Arizona Wildcats. Everything else would be 53 points or more from this Pac 10 school. I mean really! How can a team have 1 football game where they put up 15 points and then can manage to put up 37 or more points against the rest of their division 1 college football school.

Some of these schools are considered big name schools, like the USC Trojans, UCLA Bruins, Stanford Cardinal, and the Wildcats and Sun Devils from the state of Arizona. Even had one big game against the SEC and beat the Volunteers on their own orange turf. There was little doubts about who the number 1 team in football was offensively. I’m just wondering if money played a role in any of these huge margins of victory.

Two things puzzle me about the USC Trojans as it relates to the Oregon football program. The first thing, was the fact USC was not a ranked team. They had lost two games in a row and was well off the top 25 charts. After their 2 back to back loses, they did manage to beat a descent California Bears team from the Pac 10, but this victory was not enough to put the Trojans in the top 25 teams in the country. After their win against the Golden Bears, the rankings came out and did not have USC listed. USC goes into their bye week and will have 2 weeks to prepare against the top offensive Pac 10 team in the Oregon Ducks. Now the first strange thing happens and suddenly after their bye week, the Trojans from Southern California appear as the 24th team in the nation. There is actually a reason why this happened and its been doing it constantly over the last 10 years or so. The Trojans must have a strong football conference, so they can beat these easy teams and get a free ride to the Rose Bowl or a BCS Title Game. Obviously their hopes for a national title was gone, by the time Oregon appeared on their schedule, but it wasn’t for the Ducks. They were actually the top team in the land and sort of surprising, when you see the weak teams they played in their first 7 games of the season.

Auburn was playing ranked teams and half of the first 8 teams were ranked and just about all of them was a .500 opponent or better. While Oregon had a win over 1 ranked team and had beaten 4 teams that had won 2 games or less for the entire season this year. Now we start to learn why USC mysteriously appeared as the number 24th team in the country, after coming off a bye week. USC was going to be another opponent for Oregon, who was not ranked and it was going to be another Pac 10 team. The power, money, and rich political men and women who control the landscape of college football from their homes in Southern California, allowed USC to be number 24 in the polls, so the Pac 10 would save face and it would be another step to keep Oregon in 1st place; while the Auburn Tigers was not even being recognized as the 2nd best team in the country. This honor was being given to Boise State. Another west coast team who isn’t really playing any of the big teams of college football.

On Sunday, October 31st we can view the 10th week of the college football rankings from the AP Top 25 Poll.

1. Oregon with 49 of the 1st Place Votes out of a possible 60. They just came off beating the 24th ranked USC Trojans and their only other ranked opponent was the #9 Stanford Cardinal . Their record is 8 – 0.

2. Boise State with 7 of the 1st Place Votes out of a possible 60. (More the 3X the first place votes Auburn has at this point). They have only played 7 games compared to the 8 Oregon has played in. They have only had two ranked opponents, the same as Oregon and they beat #10 Virginia Tech by 3 points and #24 Oregon State. Which Oregon State is from the Pac 10 and its very interesting they we at number 24 when they played Boise State. They began the season at number 24 and lost by 9 points to the #6 TCU football team. This defeat knocked them down to 25 and still ranked. After beating unranked Louisville team by only 7 points and allowing Louisville to score 28 points against the, they went from 25 back to number 24, so Boise State would have a 2nd opponent in the AP Poll Top 25.

3. Auburn with only 2 first place votes out of a possible 60. They have played in 9 games and won them all. Oregon has 47 more first place votes and has only played in 8 games? Boise State has played in 2 fewer games at this point, and still manges to get more than 3x the first place votes? It so clear right here that these AP first place votes does not want another SEC team in the championship game. If the season was to end right here, it would be Boise State and Oregon for the Championship Game, even though Auburn has won 1 more game than Oregon and 2 more games than Boise State. I wonder how many ranked games Auburn has played in at this point? They have beat 3 ranked teams and they are #6 LSU, #12 South Carolina, and #12 Arkansas. Oregon and Boise State has only played against 2 ranked opponents and each team has a victory over the number 24 team in the country and in both cases, there is suspicious activity going on with these two #24 teams from the Pac 10. This makes zero sense!!! Auburn has played more games, more ranked opponents, and even higher ranked teams and yet they are losing the first place votes by a 7 to 2 margin with Boise State and a ridiculous 49 to 2 margin with Oregon? Why did we not see the rankings get properly adjusted on Halloween Day (October 31st, Sunday) in 2010?

Boise State and Oregon does not have any credentials to give them a more favorable ranking at this point in the season. No matter which angle you look at it from, the Auburn Tigers is being given the short end of the stick. They have played more games, against more ranked opponents, they played higher ranked opponents, and yet the Pac 10 needs protection against the strong southern teams from the SEC Football Conference.

Auburn’s last undefeated season got no respect. USC should have n not been number 1 that year. And the people with all the power and money, knew USC would have a much better shot of beating Texas; as to getting a win over QB Jason Campbell (NFL Starting QB), Ronnie Brown (NFL Starting RB), and Carnell “Cadillac”Williams (NFL Starting RB). Oh wait, let’s not forget the USC Trojans had Matt Leniert (Not a NFL Starting QB)!

Sure, we can look at the final score of the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona and say justice got served tonight. But really it didn’t, even the strange play calling of Auburn’s offensive plays in the 2nd half, leads one to scratch their heads. Why did the 2010 Auburn college football champions  from Alabama begin taking time off the clock in a one possession game? When getting another score up on the board would have been much faster to achieve and put the odds much more in your favor.

Then we have the mysterious play at the end of the game, where the Auburn running back is just trying to keep the ball in the middle of the field for a FG attempt, but then suddenly breaks it out to the half yard line. There is 10 seconds left to go in the National College Football Game to determine a first place, overall winner in the entire country and the head coach for Auburn sends out the field goal team? Luckily the other school Oregon tried to ice the kicker and called  a timeout, so Auburn could have more time to come up with something on this very important, championship deciding decision.

It finally appears the head coach for the Tigers is now on board with the idea of scoring a TD in this critical situation, instead of leaving it up to just 1 kick for the win in regulation. However, this news was just falsely reported by ESPN’s college football announcers Kirk Herbstreet and Brent Musburger, as Auburn’s head coach would only run a time-designed play for QB Cam Newton to just run the ball back to the line of scrimmage on the half yard line and allow the clock to go from 10 seconds down to 2 seconds and Auburn would call its own timeout. So with 2 seconds the place kicker for the Tigers goes out and boots the ball as straight as an arrow and actually didn’t split the up-rights, and sent the ball within 8 feet of the goal post bar going up. A lot of 2nd guessing will be played out on talk radio shows all over the country today, to determine if Auburn’s head coach made the right call or not.

It’s clear to me, that even an average football fan, could make the determination to at least call 1 play from scrimmage and hope your guy can run it in or bounce it in somehow across the goal line for a 6 point lead with less than 10 seconds on the clock. Auburn did have another timeout too, so it was possible, for them to actually run 2 offensive plays from the half yard line and if both attempts failed, you would have time left on the clock to still kick a game=ending field goal. The coach for Auburn made very poor decisions and he allowed options to be taken away from him and his football team and you can’t even give the other team credit for it either. Sometimes your opponent can take away your options to win a close game at the end, but in this case, Auburn’s 2nd year head coach made several huge mistakes in the biggest game of his life and on the biggest stage there is in college football.

Overall, we have a corrupt system in college football that is led by the USC Trojans football people. They control the polls and the rankings around the country and use them in ways to best benefit the Southern California football team or will use them to prop up other Pac 10 teams in USC’s football conference. When each team from the Pac 10 gets a little favor here and a little favor there, it leads to controversy all over the country and no one on TV is ever smart enough, to figure out these false readings are all coming from the Pac 10. It doesn’t seem like it is doing much harm when you boost a Pac 10 team here and there, but eventually it adds up and you see what the final product is, when you have a Pac 10 football team facing a SEC football team.

These two teams tonight was like watching a NFL team on Sunday afternoon (Auburn Tigers) and a high school football team on Friday night (Oregon Ducks). It was truly a David and Goliath portfolio going on out there today. Auburn was so much bigger, faster, stronger, and just filled out their football uniforms better overall. While the tiny men from a Duck Pond in Oregon some where, just didn’t fit the part of a division I school. Their opponents from the Pac 10, the USC Trojans, do get a national recruiting base and manage to find some division I prospects with division I talents for their team. They look fine against the other big football teams in NCAA Football. You see what happens when the Men from Troy fail to win their easy Pac 10 and non-conference schedules. You get another team from the Pac10 that is forced into action against a worthy opponent (in most cases) and they will not be able to perform, like they did against other Pac 10 competition.

I saw it, you saw it, and every football fan from every football conference in America saw instantly the huge advantages of size and talent the Auburn team had, compared to the brightly colored socks; which were worn by a NCAA school that would have been more at home, in a division II setting.

Clearly Auburn could do whatever they wanted to on the field tonight and it was just a bad coach for them and his desire to run time off the clock too soon, is what would make the final score look respectable. But everyone who saw this game tonight, saw the Tigers making all the standard NCAA Division I plays and the big hits on the defensive side of the ball. While the 2010 Oregon Ducks Championship Team had a handful of big plays, they scored 4 points off two point conversions, or they would have ended up with another 15 point performance, like they did against California earlier in the year.

Please clean up the Pac 10 and the USC football program. The landscape of college football would be so much better and fair to all, if the Pac 10 just would cease to exist.

Congratulations to the team from the SEC and the ones who live down there in Southern Alabama! It was a great year and even as you guys are enjoying the victory ride back home tonight, you guys still played 1 more game than the Oregon Ducks did! Tigers you are the 2010 SEC Champions plus 2011 BCS Champs and I am proud you overcame a corrupt college football system and a poor head coach to win the title for the state of Alabama for a 2nd straight year. The Crimson Tide brought the trophy to Sweet Home Alabama in 2010 and now the Auburn Tigers, who were led by College Park, Georgia’s Cam Newton is the 2011 NCAA Champions of Division I College Football!!! WTG men and I look forward to seeing a couple of you play on Sundays, next year in the National Football League! Auburn Tigers # 1