The BCS ranking system exists for one reason, to choose who goes to the national championship game. Well, that’s what we thought up until now. For the first time the BCS rankings before the end of the season have real meaning. At this point, nobody knows who the winner tomorrow is going to be, but the argument is simplified a bit with a clear loser out of the three.
Texas Tech is all but forgotten in this discussion. The combination of their loss in the three way tie being a blowout and late in the season ends their championship dreams. Lucky for us, this only makes it a little easier.
Even though the tie is really between Oklahoma and Texas, since Texas Tech decided to poke their head in the discussion head to head is thrown out. How odd is it that we’re faced with a two way tie that isn’t a two way tie because of the BCS system.
Taking a look at what will happen is actually not that difficult, that is if this is treated as any other week in the BCS. Oklahoma wins the trip to Kansas City on the BCS game show. Before this weekend Oklahoma already was ahead of Texas in both human components of the BCS.
The computers were the only thing keeping them back, and it was still close. Texas walking all over a bad Texas A&M team isn’t going to sway either the voters or computer rankings enough to give them a boost that would keep them ahead of Oklahoma.
The win by Oklahoma this weekend will now bump their strength of schedule up higher than Texas for the computers. It will also be fresher in the minds of the voters than anything Texas has accomplished.
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Dan Morgan 7 months ago
Keep in mind spirited fans, I'm not arguing who I like or would vote for. I'm a fan of both Texas and Oklahoma. I'll respond to what happens with the BCS rankings along with my conference championship predictions once we all know who will be playing. Thanks for reading.
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