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BCS Got It Right: Oklahoma More Deserving Than Texas Or Texas Tech

 
I'm not a Texas fan or a Texas Tech fan and I don't like Oklahoma. I don't like Oklahoma because they appear to get overrated in the polls each year and because I seem to remember Bob Stoops once saying, "The Big East and the Atlantic Coastal Conference should  play an elimination game for a BCS automatic bid." I'm hoping Oklahoma loses to Missouri this weekend and ends up playing Boise State in a bowl game. However, I really do believe that the Sooners rightfully deserve the chance to play in the Big 12 Championship game over Texas or Texas Tech. I know that Texas beat Oklahoma 45-35 on a neutral field and I know that Texas Tech beat Texas and Oklahoma beat Texas Tech. You can go around in circles forever about which one deserves the higher BCS ranking on the basis of these three games. That's up to you. Oklahoma is still the right choice! The Sooners aren't more deserving because they totally annihilated Texas Tech as some people suggest, but rather because they went out and ... (link)

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