michiganzone.blogspot.com - 12/4/2007
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In all the talk Saturday night about who should play in the BCS title game, I kept hearing from those pushing LSU that they were 6-1 against ranked teams.
But in the immortal words of Lee Corso - not so fast, my friend.
That 6-1 is the ranking of those teams when LSU played them, not a team's ranking at the end of the season. Meaning, to "credit" a team for such a stat is highly misleading.
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