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re: Was the '96 FSU/Florida national title rematch as controversial as '11 Bama/LSU?
Posted on 6/26/12 at 11:54 am to ShreveportHog94
Posted on 6/26/12 at 11:54 am to ShreveportHog94
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I'm not asking for credit at all. Simply stating the fact that you cannot say Arkansas is clearly not a top 5 team, yet say OSU deserved a shot at the national title. They played common opponenets and Arkansas came out better.
Don't use that logic - it means any team who played Ole Miss, Vandy, and A&M was probably better than Arkansas.
RE: the Arkansas was definitely a top five team? I don't know about that. They were ranked in the top five but I think USC would have handled Arkansas and teams like Stanford and Boise very well might have beaten them as well.
I know some hog fans get riled up about this kind of thing - but you have to understand the point of view of a LSU (or perhaps Bama) fan on this. You got drilled by both teams and really stumbled past some bad teams early in the season.
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Posted on 6/26/12 at 11:59 am to molsusports
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Don't use that logic - it means any team who played Ole Miss, Vandy, and A&M was probably better than Arkansas.
It's the same logic ole Rick has been using though
Posted on 6/26/12 at 12:03 pm to molsusports
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Don't use that logic - it means any team who played Ole Miss, Vandy, and A&M was probably better than Arkansas.
RE: the Arkansas was definitely a top five team? I don't know about that. They were ranked in the top five but I think USC would have handled Arkansas and teams like Stanford and Boise very well might have beaten them as well.
I know some hog fans get riled up about this kind of thing - but you have to understand the point of view of a LSU (or perhaps Bama) fan on this. You got drilled by both teams and really stumbled past some bad teams early in the season.
And what would you say if I told you LSU didn't deserve to be ahead of us or in the top 10 in 2010, because they had mulitple close calls with inferior opponents? I'm not saying Arkansas was a clear cut top 5 team--they were. But I'm saying they are just as likely as any other team you could put in there. Like stated earlier, LSU and Bama were on another level from the rest of college football. So honestly, 3-8 could have gone anyway. Just so happened that Arkansas was one of the top 5.
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