The National Title Picture

Here’s the argument I’m tired of hearing about: Louisville’s freaking schedule. People want to take away credit from Louisville for scheduling Miami “Miami isn’t what it usually is”. Then when you point out they’ve beaten 3 bowl teams – and include a moderately successful Kentucky it’s “well, they didn’t know Kentucky would be good.” You can’t knock a team for beating who they’ve beaten based on the schedule they have vs the schedule they SHOULD have had looking at it on paper at the beginning of the season. It doesn’t much matter either way to be honest, though. Rutgers probably loses to West Virginia anyway and the whole Big East Conference can just shut up.

And yeah, it’s easy to sit here as a Razorback fan and gripe about Auburn STILL being ranked ahead of us in the polls…and it’s a legitimate argument. What’s NOT is griping about how Arkansas isn’t in the National Title picture conversation. We’ve beaten Auburn people. Yeah, it was easily…and it was AT Auburn. But beat Tennessee…and then beat LSU. THEN start having the conversation. We’ll still need to beat Florida in Atlanta to have a reasonable argument about belonging, but don’t even bring up the argument until we close out the season the right way. It’s mighty hard to hold your head up high, pound your chest and crow about being 5-0 in the SEC when the wins are close wins against Vandy and Alabama, a win against South Carolina (which is not a bad win) and win against Ole Miss (that is a bad win – anybody bragging about that needs to be drug out in the street and shot!). Beat the others and we’ll have the conversation, but don’t start the National Title talk just for beating Auburn…because we also got our asses thoroughly beaten by USC.