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 ...

Big 12 Football three-way: The case for Oklahoma
thesportscorner.ca 11/26/2008 — What have you done for me lately? That’s exactly what Oklahoma fans should ask the other two teams in this three-way. Because nobody in the Big 12 is running show the way OU is right now. Since losing to Texas in mid-October, the Sooners have put up ungodly numbers offensively.

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 ...

Red River Rout?
ncaafootball.fanhouse.com 10/11/2008 — It's hard to imagine how a college football game could get more attention than Saturday's Red River Rivalry. Maybe Army vs. Navy, if they met as armed forces instead of football teams (which, coincidentally, is what we imagine a Tank Johnson family ...

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 ...

But… But… We’re Texas
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.

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 ...

Oklahoma president unsure about BCS, playoff - College Football - Rivals.com
rivals.yahoo.com 11/26/2008 — NORMAN, Okla. (AP)—Oklahoma president David Boren isn’t surprised by the outcry over the BCS rankings that propelled the Sooners into the Big 12 championship game, but he doesn’t think rash changes to the system are an appopriate solution.“Every time ...

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 ...

When Did Winning Stop Being Enough?
crimsonandcreammachine.com 10/30/2008 — If you were to listen to some of the callers on local sports radio here in Oklahoma or check some of the message boards on the internet you would think that the Oklahoma Sooners were standing at 1-7 instead of 7-1. Oklahoma is scoring points at a ...

With Fiesta Bowl Win, Longhorns Should Share National Championship — Bleacher Report - College Football 12/9/2008
The "national championship" of college football is, despite the protests of BCS royalty, a mythical championship. Without a true playoff, it will always be a distinction that is bestowed, not earned.  To be fair, a bowl win by players and ...

The Wrong Teams Are Playing for the National Championship...Again — Bleacher Report - College Football 12/9/2008
Well, here we go again.  Another year of college football madness, and another year settled by the BCS system.  Ah...the BCS system!  Every year college football gets more complicated at the end of the season, and every year the BCS ...

Sooners asst. Wilson wins Broyles Award (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - NCAA Football News 12/9/2008
Oklahoma offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson has won the Broyles Award, given to the nation's top assistant coach. The Sooners will play Florida in the BCS title game thanks to an offense that has scored at least 60 points in five straight games. Led ...

Harris and Coaches Polls Soil the BCS in Battle of Man Vs. Machine — Bleacher Report - College Football 12/9/2008
The BCS Championship is set, Oklahoma Sooners vs. Florida Gators, and there are more than a few questions. PLEASE USE THIS AS AN APPENDIX WITH ALL OF THE POLL NUMBERS COMPILED IN A READABLE - NON-PDF FORM. (I'm not going to type out all the ...

The BCS Gets It Wrong...Again — Bleacher Report - College Football 12/10/2008
It’s time for another bowl season, and therefore, by default, time for another long and drawn-out debate about the effectiveness of the BCS system. Every December for the last decade, the bowl selections have been announced—and madness ...