Over the weekend, I received a couple of reader e-mails that hit several nails on the head.
From Deric in Kansas City:
Here is an ugly truth about what will happen this year in college football. Oklahoma will beat Missouri in the Big 12 Championship game. It will be close, but for big-game, team preparation, I’ll take Stoops over Pinkel. Then, we will see two of the most overrated teams in college football play for a national championship. Neither West Virginia nor Ohio State are worthy of playing on the biggest stage college football has to offer.
West Virginia will be No. 1, which is a shame because Oklahoma, Texas, Texas Tech, Missouri and Kansas can beat West Virginia. So could LSU, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and Florida. And I believe those same Big 12 and SEC teams can beat Ohio State. If any of the aforementioned Big 12 or SEC teams played the same schedule West Virginia and Ohio State played, they would be No. 1 wire to wire.
It is a shame that college football will have a champion that five teams out of the Big 12 and five teams out the SEC can beat.
More proof? When was the last time an SEC team lost to Ohio State in a bowl game?
We are in dire need of an eight team playoff system in college football!
Then, from Wayne in Stillwater:
Missouri’s starting middle guard is from Midwest City. Jeremy Gibbs, who starts at defensive back for Oregon, is from Stillwater. Russel Brorsen, who starts at defensive end for Kansas, is from Stillwater. Kansas has eight starters from Oklahoma. (OSU has only four starters from Oklahoma.)
Obviously, the Houston conduit is working somewhat for OSU. However, maybe OSU should stop burning up the road to Houston and start looking in their own backyard.
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Thanks, fellas! Couldn’t have said it any better myself.