rivals.yahoo.com - 12/2/2008
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Consiglieri Peter Bean has thrown his hands up , but for the most part, Texas fans are on the warpath about their BCS snub in favor of Oklahoma: Flooding the Big 12 office with angry letters, blaming poor Blake Gideon , wondering if Will Muschamp should spend the week with Missouri's defensive ...
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 ...
rivals.yahoo.com - 11/30/2008
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rivals.yahoo.com —
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 ...
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Settling the Oklahoma-Texas debate with the big picture
bankrollsports.com - 12/4/2008
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There Is No Right Answer
mgoblog —
... be moot a week from now.
Then I remembered the reason Oklahoma was going to the Big 12 Championship game. No wonder Texas fans are a little punchy about polls.
My ballot was apparently the last straw for Peter's faith in the rationality of humanity. The title of the post: "The Day That Common Sense Died." At he throws his hands up in the air, defeated. Um… sorry about that?
Meanwhile, Matt Hinton, AKA Dr. Saturday, provides a dossier of the BCS complainers from years past:
Thus a meme is born, the ...
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