sports.espn.go.com - 12/1/2008
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In the end, it was what we expected. It just happened far differently than anyone had imagined. Oklahoma will represent the Big 12 South in the conference championship game against Missouri on Saturday, giving the Sooners a chance to play their way into the BCS National Championship Game with ...
rivals.yahoo.com - 12/1/2008
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rivals.yahoo.com —
In a perfect world, the Doc would be
given carte blanche to publicly torch the Bowl Championship...
Series in effigy and institute the elaborate, double-elimination battle royale of his dreams. But we live in the world we live in, so each Sunday the Doc ...
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BCS Realpolitik: Oklahoma it is, but a new route to ...
thesportsculture.com - 12/1/2008
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thesportsculture.com —
Exclusive video evidence : ESPN ran a somewhat
fluffy feature video on the BCS nerds that make...
up those jokeshow rankings. Four math dudes — that full-fledged pocket protector breed of virgins — are responsible for developing the formula that determines your NCAA BCS ...
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Video evidence: One BCS mathematician has Oklahoma bias
msn.foxsports.com - 11/30/2008
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By virtue of its second-place showing in this
week's standings, Oklahoma has emerged from a three-way tie...
atop the Big 12 South and will play Missouri in the Big 12 championship game. Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Texas had finished the regular season with ...
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FOX Sports on MSN - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - BCS gives ...
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National writers let reason take a backseat
Fire Jay Mariotti —
... Brad Edwards: That raises the question: Is it still certain that Florida reaches the BCS National Championship Game by simply beating No. 1 Alabama on Saturday? ...
Four Things To Worry About This Week
Alligator Army —
... game planning without him.
“It’s day-to-day,” Meyer said. “He certainly won’t practice the first couple of days. He’s here and moving around a little bit. We’ll see what happens...
“Obviously, we’ve thought about it because we’ve had to play through it (not having Harvin) a couple of times before. We have a plan. I just hope he’s ready.”
4. This ESPN article; "Polls show disturbing trend."
Thanks in part to SEC ...
Confessions of a Football Junkie: Big 12 Fail
Football Outsiders —
... allowed as a standard. Either way, the key is to look at how a group of teams, in this case three, played against the same group of teams to determine which one is better. Doing so would remove the ugly specter of politicking that we saw from Mack Brown, who was interviewed during Saturday's broadcast -- and who seems to find himself in this situation a lot. It also would remove the stench of voter shenanigans, some of which came into play in this week's polls, as expertly detailed by ESPN.com's Brad Edwards . Some voters, having no doubt heard the week's worth of propaganda ...
The BCS Works! Everybody Gets What They Want!
Rocky Top Talk —
We've been hearing the chant for a playoff system from nearly every direction for a while now, and the Big 12 South division is the newest exhibit in the pro-playoff arsenal as to why the BCS is the single greatest disaster to ever hit college football. The chant for a playoff has been going on for so long, that many are probably calling for one without even understanding why they do so. So while we're in the heat of the moment and everybody's emotions are overriding their logical senses, let's take a step back and ...
Morning Coffee Feels Screwed
Burnt Orange Nation —
... Selection committee insanity. ESPN's Brad Edwards sees a problem with the polls. I saw somewhere recently the suggestion that the BCS employ a selection committee similar to the one that college basketball uses, an idea which I like. Edwards accuses human voters of trying to serve as a selection committee, calling for more transparency by the pollsters, alleging that some dropped teams on ballots intentionally to help another, presumably referring to Texas moving ahead of Florida and Oklahoma. ...
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thesportscorner.ca 11/26/2008 — Texas beat Oklahoma who beat Texas Tech who beat Texas who beat Oklahoma who beat Texas Tech… Dammit. There’s just no easy way to settle this. If Texas beats Texas A&M on Thursday night, then Oklahoma beats Oklahoma State and Texas Tech beats Baylor on Saturday, there will ...
Settling the Oklahoma-Texas debate with the big picture
rivals.yahoo.com 11/30/2008 —
First things first: Of the two relevant polls that have been released as of this writing, the Coaches poll and Jeff Sagarin's computer poll both rank Oklahoma ahead of Texas. The margin in the Sagarin poll is .44 points, out of a possible 100 for ...
There Is No Right Answer
mgoblog.com 12/3/2008 — On Monday I posted my blogpoll draft ballot and, I guess, in it is contained my opinion on who should play for the national championship: the SEC champion and either Oklahoma or Texas. This is not controversial. My exact ordering of the teams , ...
Finding myself thankful for the computers
fannation.com 12/1/2008 — For the first time in the 11-year history of the BCS, I find myself thankful for the computers. As I wrote earlier this week , BCS voters were dealt an unwanted burden this weekend thanks to an ill-devised Big 12 tiebreaker format that forced them to ...
BCS standings: OU Sooners have edge
newsok.com 11/24/2008 — OU can bolster ranking by beating No. 12 OSU NORMAN — It’s close. But Oklahoma appears to have the edge over Texas in the BCS, even though the Longhorns stayed ahead of the Sooners in this week’s standings. OU moved up two spots to No. 3, after a ...
Life Isn’t Fair: The Texas Longhorns Story
thebiglead.com 11/26/2008 — In the latest BCS Standings (Bullshit Championship Stupidness), Texas is No. 2 and Oklahoma is No. 3. It hardly matters because the Sooners will leapfrog the team it lost to by beating the Cowboys in Stillwater Saturday. That victory will put ...
Mack Brown Is Texas’ BCS Scapegoat
sportsbybrooks.com 12/1/2008 — So you’re a Texas fan. You’re mad at the world because, despite beating your biggest rival by 10 points on a neutral field , they’re going to the Big 12 Championship and, in all likelihood, the BCS Championship instead of your ...
Ivan Maisel: This latest BCS episode does college football no favors
sports.espn.go.com 12/1/2008 — Let us pause while BCS proponents try to clear their throats and their logic. The BCS proponents insist their system is the best because Every Game Matters. Their system is the one that declared Oklahoma, and not Texas or Texas Tech, the Big 12 South ...
Brown says he won't talk about the BCS - but he did anyway
statesman.com 11/26/2008 — LONGHORNS FOOTBALL Brown says he won't talk about the BCS - but he did anyway By Alan Trubow AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Texas coach Mack Brown wasn't going to talk about the BCS on Monday, until he talked about the BCS on ...
