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Sad game....UK almost had it in the bag a number of times.

I'll be honest with you guys...i will be happy if OSU somehow lucks out n becomes #2 if OK beats tonights winner next week...

But i really don't want them to be #2 anymore...i just want us to go to the rose bowl dammit...it just feels wrong to go to the national title game at this point....and i'm man nuf to admit OSU doesn't deserve to go to the title game this year....there i said it ...


With that being said i will cheer for my team no matter where they end up! GO BUCKS!


PS- GO oklahoma too

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But i really don't want them to be #2 anymore...i just want us to go to the rose bowl dammit...it just feels wrong to go to the national title game at this point....and i'm man nuf to admit OSU doesn't deserve to go to the title game this year....there i said it ...

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Why? Because we won 11 games this year? Because we're the big ten champs? Because every team ahead of us couldn't finish the job?

If we make it we deserve to be there... All WVU, Kansas, and Mizzu have to do is win out and they're in... If they don't we're in...

We're not back dooring anything... we won every game on our schedule except one. With the way the system is we deserve to be in just as much as anyone.

Hopefully a few more years of this and the people who matter will realize we need a playoff system or at least an and-1.

The way I see it, if OSU doesn't deserve to go to the NC game because of their loss to Illinois....then no other team can go because EVERYONE has a "loss to Illinois" (Well, except Hawaii). It seems like everyone got beat by an unranked team while sitting at #1 & #2.

I think OSU has a fighting chance at the NC game yet.

Wish I got home from shopping earlier, now that the game is on, my wife is going to want to put up the tree after I pick up the pizza. And she's going to watch White Christmas, which means no football. Ah well......I'll be flipping over.

Jay your right, I just dont want this team to be labeled as a team that doesnt deserve to get in. Everyone knows the media will support whoever we play.

j/c....


Lexington = Home of no defense.

Tough loss Top... great game though....

Mizzou looks very good so far! Very exciting game so far!

I always felt OU had a better chance of winning vs tonight's winner than WVU had of losing... OU is a top 5 caliber team that took a game off against Colorado and then lost to an inspired Tech team IMO... I think with Stoops as their coach they will be ready come Big 12 champ time... I still think they are the favorite in most people's mind.... remember that Mizzou's one loss is to OU... of course can OU pull off the win again if Mizzou wins tonight? It's always tougher to beat a team for the second time.

Kansas might just be about done... they better have something big up their sleeves...


SC and Clemson game has turned out to be pretty exciting... SC up by 1 with 3 min left!

They just said on TV that the only reason OU beat Mizz regular season was the Tigers turned the ball over two times in the 4th quarter,...

I'm not holding my breath,...

Funny ironic isn't it,...I really hate cats (as a pet), but need either the Tigers to lose, or the Panthers to win now,....

Warriors are WAC champions, 39-27

By Stephen Tsai
HawaiiWarriorBeat.Com Editor

At last.

A chase that spanned decades came to a chicken-skin end tonight when the Hawai'i football team claimed its first outright Western Athletic Conference championship.

It ended in a mosh pit of celebration after the Warriors conquered arch-rival Boise State, 39-27, before a national television audience and a sellout Aloha Stadium crowd that screamed "B-C-S" into to the full-moon night.

It ended with the Warriors gathering in the locker room in a group prayer, then, in unison, yelling: "WAC champs!"

Both teams entered with 7-0 WAC records, but it was the Broncos who stepped onto the FieldTurf wearing the crown.

The Broncos had won the past five WAC titles, winning 46 of 47 league games during that span. They had won the previous six meetings against the Warriors.

"We believed," UH quarterback Colt Brennan said. "That was our motto."

It was strengthened during a chapel service yesterday morning when the pastor gave a sermon on David and Goliath.

"If you believe, giants will fall," UH defensive tackle Michael Lafaele said. "Giants do fall."

But they do not fall easily, and the feisty Broncos — aided by two blocks of UH point-after kicks — seized a 27-26 lead on Kyle Brotzman's 36-yard field with 6:52 remaining in the third quarter.

But the Warriors quickly responded, driving 70 yards in 10 plays, to go ahead, 32-27, on a 7-yard pass from Brennan to Jason Rivers.

Later, the Warriors made it 39-27 when C.J. Hawthorne made an over-the-shoulder-pads catch of a Brennan pass for a 38-yard touchdown play.

After that, the Warriors' defense took charge. The Broncos rely on a shifts and motions to keep opponents on the heels of their cleats. But clear away the smoke, and their fire comes from a power running game and play-action passes.

"Take away the run," Lafaele said, "and you stop them."

And that's what the Warriors did, with the ends bracketing the Broncos' offense, and linebackers Blaze Soares and Timo Paepule filling the gaps.

The Broncos were held to a season-low 101 rushing yards, with only 32 in the second half.

Running back Ian Johnson rushed for 86 yards and two touchdowns, but had only six yards after the intermission.

With the running game contained, the Broncos' play-action passes had less deception.

After a nervous start, Brennan found his groove, completing 40 of 53 passes for 495 yards and five touchdowns.

In the process, he broke Ty Detmer's NCAA record for career touchdown passes. Brennan now has 126.

Davone Bess caught a school-record 15 passes, giving him 27 receptions in the past two games.

Rivers added 11 catches for 113 yards.

The Warriors' four starting receivers — Bess, Rivers, Hawthorne and Ryan Grice-Mullins — each had a scoring catch.

With Brennan at the controls, the Warriors controlled the clock in the fourth quarter. After Boise State's Taylor Tharp was sacked with 6:26 to play, the Warriors would not relinquish the ball.

When the Warriors gained a first down inside the Broncos' 1 with 35 seconds left, the countdown to the UH's 11th victory in as many games began. The Broncos, without a timeout, could not stop the impending celebration in which fans stormed the field.

A makeshift stage was set up, and WAC commissioner Karl Benson, fighting through the crowd, presented the trophy to the dancing Warriors.

"It was a great night," whispered head coach June Jones, who won his first outright championship as a coach.

Brennan threw two scoring passes and ran a yard for a touchdown to stake the Warriors to a 19-17 lead at the half.

Brennan became the NCAA leader in career touchdown passes with his 6-yard throw to Grice-Mullins with 3:53 left in the first quarter. That tied the score at 7.

The Broncos, whose opening 13-play drive was halted by an interception by safety Jacob Patek, were more efficient on their second possession. Marty Tadman's 34-yard punt return set up the Broncos at the 50.

Johnson then took a handoff, broke two tackles in a run up the middle. He then broke right and outraced a defensive back to complete the 50-yard scoring play, giving Boise State a 7-0 lead.

The Warriors took a 14-7 lead on Brennan's 1-yard run. The score was set up by right wideout Hawthorne's 23-yard gain off an inside screen. It appeared Hawthorne had stretched the ball across the plane of the goal line, but the replay official ruled that he was down at the 1.

The point-after kick was blocked — the Broncos' 10th block this season. In last year's meeting between the teams, the Broncos blocked two PATs.

The Broncos went ahead on Johnson's second touchdown run, this time from a yard.

But the Warriors regained the lead on a 23-yard pass from Brennan to slotback Bess, who caught the pass at the 6, and eluded a defender before stumbling into the end zone.

But the Broncos again blocked the PAT.

Boise State then closed to 19-17 on Kyle Brotzman's 39-yard field goal.

The Broncos missed a chance to take the lead when Brotzman's field-goal attempt from 49 yards fell short with 13 seconds left in the half.

Brennan completed 20 of 27 first-half passes for 241 yards.

Reach Stephen Tsai at stsai@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8051. See Tsai's blog at blogs.honoluluadvertiser.com.

Were I a pollster, I guess I would have to put Hawaii at # 6,....

West Virginia
Missouri
Ohio State
USC
Oklahoma
Hawaii
Tennessee
Georgia
LSU

GO MIZZOU!

Oregon lost to UCLA, .... this means the Bruins still have a shot at the PAC-10, and Ohio State could be playing a 7-5 opponent in the Rose Bowl.

Why do some people want ohio state to play usc in the rose bowl over playing in the national championship. Am I interpreting this wrong?

cuz...would u rather WVU runs all over OSU in a national title game or we beat a pac 10 team at the rose bowl? WVU i think would be a nightmare...unless our O goes out and scores on first 4 or so drives and makes it 28 to 7 or something we would not have a chance in the game....they would control the ball and our O would never be on the field nuf to get anything going....

Bring on the Buckeyes in the National Championship game!

Is it possible?

Don't exactly know what you're interpreting,...

There are those who feel the Rose Bowl is " OK, " I am not one of them. Regardless of who the opponent is.

There are those who feel the National Championship Game is the only game Ohio State should ever play in,...I am not one of them.

I do expect Ohio State to finish in the Top Five every year,...Ohio high school football produces that kind of talent, and Jim Tressel has done a good job of keeping most of it here the last seven years.

No, I dropped them because they were pretenders in the first place,....their first four games were WORSE than anything anybody could complain about Ohio State's schedule being weak for,...

And what did they win?

UuuhhhH, the Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma,...??

i dont know if anyone would argue that the Rose Bowl is better, but I can say that personally I see it as equal. I mean for decades that was the end goal, and now to have the chance to be there, for the first time in over a decade, is just amazing.

I would love to win a National Championship, but I love the outright Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl against a Pac 10 Champion, it kind of feels likes putting on my favorite old tshirt.

A fart in a blizzard. The WAC is inferior to the major conferences. Hawaii could not compete with the top teams, IMO.

I don't disagree with that at all,....but it happens and it deserves its due respect.

I would not have been unhappy to see Kansas and Hawaii in the NC.

However, Hawaii is now the only major undefeated college football team in the country.

you would put 9-3 Tennessee (who were outscored 145-68 in their losses to Cal, Florida, and Bama) ahead of:
10-2 Georgia
10-2 Va Tech
10-2 Boston College
10-2 LSU
9-2 Arizona State
9-3 Flordia
9-3 Illinois

Tennessee is playing as good a level of football, at this time of year, as any other 2 loss team in the country. Don't care what the scoring numbers say, they are an SEC Division Champ and may win the Conference.

You don't seem -- didn't seem -- upset when undefeated Kansas was outranked by LSU,.....

The point is, my poll doesn't hold a lot of logic for some people, and I can understand why,....so why should anyone have to put any credence in what any poll tells us ??

Why ISN'T Hawaii at least 3 or 4, considering what Boise did last year ??

Why is Ohio State going to be shut out by West Virginia -- who I agree should scare the dog out of anyone right now -- whose one loss is to a now unranked South Florida, when Ohio State lost to a now ranked # 20 Illinois ?

Why is Kansas going to be shut out by Ohio State, when their loss is to the now # 1 ranked team in the country ?? Let alone Ohio State is idle,....

Why will Kansas even get a Bowl game when they can't win their own conference ?

Why isn't there as playoff,...?

I don't make the rules for pollsters, so that means I don't have to follow them either.

Georgia won....

And I'm glad Tennessee won too cuz playing LSU is not going to help us since they lost to Arkansas.

Georgia should be #4 or 5 now...

I dont know why WV is ranked so high anyway they lost to South Florida for gods sake and they finished terribly,we lost to a respectable Illinois.