billybud wrote:TCU caught Oklahoma early in the season's first game...the last game that the Sooners played before TCU was the embarrassing 55-19 thumping that they took in the bowl. Offenses usually take longer to come on line than do defenses...Oklahoma got better.
TCU, in their next game, was held to 10 points and beaten by SMU...then TCU was unable, in regulation time, to beat Utah or BYU...they did win the OT. Not decisive wins...but wins.
Other than catching Oklahoma early, TCU did not beat another team who was ranked at the end of the year. Like hitting off of the ladies tees...
I don't really have a problem with someone having a different point of view, provided its' based on substantial evidence.
The position you subscribe to is based on 'shaky' at best, evidence, if that.
In fact it's based on the result of one game, against a team (SMU) that was supposed to be a lot worse than they were, relative to the rest of the conference. You can be like Eric, and refer to the T. A&M debacle, if you want. They lost 66-8, I think was the final margin. But it was a game, until halftime. Maybe that's not a rallying cry, but when has Texas A&M ever run up the score on anyone? Nobody, I guess (ask Baylor).
Even so, SMU was one win from playing in the Houston Bowl, against KU.
One OT (to Marshall) is all that separated them from being in a bowl.
So, in retrospect, TCU's loss to SMU maybe doesn't look so bad.
The other games you refer to, were huge wins for TCU. Don't make light of them, simply because you have no respect for the MWC. Utah beat the tar out of Georgia Tech, maybe Utah wasn't too bad? BYU played Cal in a bowl, seems to me it wasn't a blowout, Cal isn't too bad, either.
So they were OT wins. Seems to me they count the same, as other wins.
Part of why they initiated OT in teh first place, I'm guessing.
Now, if you want to form a 'valid' position, based on relevant information, go ahead. I think I've thown the gauntlet down before. The closest anyone has come to putting TCU in a negative light is Eric. He based it on solid evidence, but I don't think losing one game to a 'rival' in their home stadium is sufficient basis for discounting an entire year of success.