sportsbybrooks.com - 12/1/2008
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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 Horns. You’re looking for a scapegoat. Well, ...
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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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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CollegeGameBalls: College Football at its Finest —
... It will be Oklahoma, not Texas, versus Missouri this Saturday for the Big 12 Championship. Horns fans if you are pissed off just blame Mack Brown. ...
Picking On The Pollsters After Week 14: The Harris Poll, The Sagarin Ratings, Coaches And AP Under Fire
FanIQ Blog —
... them all the way down at #9, and Jeff McLane even had them at #10, despite their undefeated season.
But if McLane thinks that's bad, take a look at the Harris Poll. Someone there is still voting Utah #1. That's one of the polls that actually influences the BCS, like the Coaches poll, where Mack Brown may have helped cost his team a shot at the Big 12 title game.
Jeff Sagarin's ...
Speed Read: Cosby Show Gives Texas Title Claim
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
We all know how this story is supposed to go. Texas blows Ohio State out of the water, Oklahoma scrapes by Florida and the Longhorns join the slew of teams through history that have a huge beef about how they deserved to win a national championship.
(Theo! Give this man a sweater vest already!)
Only it didn’t turn out that way. OK, the second half of that equation may still come true, but Texas did anything but blow Ohio State out of the water. Instead, it took a 26-yard touchdown pass from late-game maestro and Texas quarterback Colt McCoy to 26-year-old going on 35-year-old Quan ...
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collegegameballs.com 12/8/2008 —
A Sooner fan held this up during the Oklahoma rout of Missouri. It is just a huge fuck you from Oklahoma to Texas.
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 ...
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 ...
Coaches showing Texas no love
statesman.com 11/12/2008 — So why exactly are many of the 61 head football coaches who vote in the USA Today top 25 poll showing Texas no love and ranking Oklahoma above it?
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 ...
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 ...
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 , ...
Brad Edwards: Polls show disturbing trend
sports.espn.go.com 12/1/2008 — 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 ...
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 ...
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Bleacher Report - College Football 12/1/2008
You have got to be kidding me, right, BCS? Seriously, BCS, this is like an EXTREMELY TARDY April fools joke, right?
Tell me you are messing with all of us fans when you placed Oklahoma over Texas in the latest BCS rankings last night. Because, if ...
