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发帖数: 348 | 1 本来2012就安排了比赛， 没想到取消了
不知道UO当时为什么那么激动想和LSU打， 结果KSU不打了，GEOGIA也不打了
Removing Oregon from schedule could be double-edged sword for Kansas State
By Gregg Doyel
Removing Oregon from schedule could be double-edged sword for Kansas State
By Gregg Doyel | National Columnist
Follow GreggOct. 24, 2012 9:43 AM ET
211 | Comments Oregon fans are frustrated and angry, and they're right.
The Ducks were passed in the BCS standings this week by Kansas State because
the BCS computers hate the Ducks' schedule. And the computers are right,
too: Oregon's nonconference schedule is awful, with games against Arkansas
State, Fresno State and Tennessee Tech.
Presumably, Savannah State could't play Oregon.
Definitely, Kansas State couldn't.
That's where the 2012 BCS story goes sideways. It's an outlandish plot twist
that reads like fiction -- a comedy, but a dark one -- but it's 100 percent
true: Kansas State passed Oregon in the BCS standings because Oregon's
nonconference schedule lacks a marquee opponent; Oregon's nonconference
schedule lacks a marquee opponent because Kansas State canceled a visit this
season to Autzen Stadium.
Kansas State and Oregon are the two leading candidates to play Alabama (or
Florida) in the national championship game.
The Kansas State-or-Oregon debate could be decided in December by the BCS
computers. They were supposed to play this season in Part II of a home-and-
home series that would have started last year in Manhattan, Kan., but the
series was called off in 2010. It was canceled "by mutual agreement,"
according to Kansas State.
And technically that's true. There was mutual agreement: Oregon had the
chance last season to open the season against LSU, and asked Kansas State to
move that 2011 game. Kansas State, though, had an issue of its own: With
the Big 12 adding a ninth game to its conference schedule in 2011, Kansas
State asked Oregon to simply cancel the series. Oregon agreed, just as
Oregon agreed when Georgia asked (for other reasons) to cancel a two-game
series with the Ducks in 2015-16. Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity
said in 2010 there was "mutual agreement" to cancel the series, but that's
another technicality. Georgia wanted out and Oregon allowed it to happen,
even allowed Georgia to save face by calling the decision "mutual."
Same thing with Kansas State. The games were canceled. And it was mutual.
But the trigger was pulled, ultimately, by Kansas State.
Put down your pitchforks, Kansas State. I've got nothing but love for you,
and for your coach, and for your quarterback, and for your whole damn team.
I was there Saturday when Kansas State destroyed West Virginia, and I loved
my first in-person look at Kansas State football. Bill Snyder is a classy
man, one of those rare times when you can honestly mean it when you say, "He
's as impressive off the field as he is on it." And on the field Bill Snyder
is a Hall of Famer, or will be, for building Kansas State into a national
powerhouse in the 1990s and then coming out of retirement to rebuild Kansas
State into a national powerhouse now.
Ripping Kansas State or Bill Snyder? Not me. But facts are facts, and the
fact is, Kansas State and Oregon didn't play this season because Kansas
State asked out. I'm not saying it was cowardly. I'm just saying, it
happened. Oregon had that LSU issue, and Snyder has his scheduling
philosophy, and this is what happened. But there were unintended
consequences.
At the moment Oregon looks like a victim, but only at the moment. Oregon
fans are nervously hoping it will all work out, and it probably will. In two
months the computers will be more smitten with the Ducks, whose schedule
gets tougher. Kansas State's schedule, meanwhile, has peaked. Regardless of
what the BCS standings say this week, undefeated Oregon probably would be
ahead of undefeated Kansas State at the end of the regular season.
Given that, who really got screwed by Kansas State's decision not to play
Oregon?
Kansas State.
Kansas State didn't have to play Oregon, true, but there's another angle to
consider -- Oregon didn't have to play Kansas State. I'm not at all
convinced Oregon would have beaten the Wildcats, especially not in September
in one of the first career starts for Ducks quarterback Marcus Mariota. You
saw what Kansas State did to Geno Smith and West Virginia, right? On the
road, at West Virginia? Clearly the Mountaineers are flawed and Smith was
anointed the Heisman frontrunner way too soon, but Kansas State is ferocious
, smart, tough, fearless, physical.
Kansas State could well have beaten Oregon, but we'll never know. The
computers are telling us now which team is better, and the computers have
chosen Kansas State, but they'll revisit the issue every week -- and they'll
spit out another answer in a couple of months, is my guess.
In the meantime we wait. And we wonder who would've won if Kansas State had
played Oregon -- and which school will be sorry that we'll never know. | P*********l
发帖数: 94 | 2 If both teams won the rest of their games, we will find out who has the
better team on the field for 2012.
GO CATS! |
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