sports.espn.go.com - 12/1/2008
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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 champion. Their computers boosted the ...
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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National writers let reason take a backseat
Fire Jay Mariotti —
I don't have an entire article to rip. Instead, I bring you a hodgepodge of reasoning that hurts my brain from the nation's sportswriters. Gregg Doyel: Not again, certainly not with Vick, who is the most vile professional athlete since Rae Carruth. Vick didn't conspire to kill a person, "just" dogs, but considering I prefer the typical dog to the typical person, that's an unforgivable crime in my opinion. Rae Carruth conspired to kill his girlfriend, who, at the time was eight months pregnant with twins. One of the babies died a week after being born. Rae Carruth was found guilty of ...
The Morning Skate for Monday, December 1st
Four Habs Fans —
Bullet points for what you missed while having nightmares of another BCS mess... Modano gets his 1300th point netting the winner in the Stars' 4-3 over the Oil; Panthers' Craig Anderson (who?) makes 37 saves in a 4-0 shutout over the Rangers; New Leafs GM Brian Burke looking to pilfer other teams' front offices.Big thanks to HF10 for his filling in last week (including Saturday!). No question he brought teh funneh way more than me.
(12/1) OU Football Articles and Notes
Oklahoma Sooners Football Blog —
Oklahoma Sooner Football Articles and Notes Sooners bask in the glow of more BCS love: The Oklahoman Sooners take high road to Kansas City: The Oklahoman Sooners routed Red Raiders out of voter pysche: The Oklahoman Notebook -- Bradford has torn ligaments in left hand: The Oklahoman Bradford living in a dream world: The Oklahoman Swing Vote -- OU: Tulsa World How Stoops spent his version of Selection Sunday: Tulsa World UT should be above OU: Tulsa World Little confused by BCS? Join the club: Tulsa World Tigers aim ...
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 ...
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Brad Edwards: Polls show disturbing trend
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Oklahoma jumps Texas in BCS standings to claim Big 12 South
sports.espn.go.com 11/30/2008 — NEW YORK -- A week before the final standings are released and the Bowl Championship Series is already ticking people off. Oklahoma -- not Texas -- is headed to the Big 12 championship game with an inside track to the national title game by finishing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Big 12 Football three-way
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 ...
