Does Anyone Else Find This Disturbing?

Why would 44% of sports fans responding to an ESPN poll think an undefeated Louisville Cardinals team wouldn't play for a national championship?

If the Cards finish the season unbeaten, it means they cleaned the clocks of #3 West Virginia, #15 Rutgers, #17 Miami, a strong Pitt club, a scary South Florida team and everyone else they played!

Ohio State or Michigan will have a loss. That's a certainty (they play one another later in November).

Who'd want to see a rematch (where the better team's already been determined by virtue of who won the month-earlier contest) when you could have two unbeaten teams from major conferences able to square off?

That's crazy talk.

I'm not being a homer. If you have two unbeaten teams from major conferences at the end of the year, match 'em up. You don't need computers, BCS polls and a bunch of algorithms to figure this out.

Some 26% of respondents do, however, believe Louisville will win-out and play in the national championship game. That's cool. Shows some spunk.

Meanwhile, 30% are likely more realistic, voting that Louisville will lose before the regular season ends. Going undefeated is a pretty tall order, and as much as I like this Cards team, they've still got some doubters out there.