Texas Deserves the Big 12 South in a Three Way Tie

Mack Brown has shown that not only is he not above politicking, but he's pretty good at it.  And, unfortunately, in the BS, I mean BCS, system we have, politicking is sometimes required.

Pollsters are human and humans tend to react most strongly to what they have seen most recently.  Therefore, if Oklahoma beats Texas Tech when they play, there will be a strong tide to move the Sooners above the Horns...even though they lost to the Horns.

Mack Brown has to prevent this because if OU moves ahead and then finishes the season by beating a ranked team (Oklahoma State) there will not be an opportunity to get the BCS lead back.  So Texas must act proactively.  Having said that, here's the argument that I would use if I were Mack Brown.  I would call a press conference and say this exact verbiage immediately after an OU win over Texas Tech...

To All Poll Voters:

With today's OU win, there are three teams in the Big 12 South that have identical records overall, in the conference, and in the division.  And because of Big 12 tie-breaker rules, you, the voters, will have the responsibility to decide who plays in the Big 12 championship game which will have profound implications on who plays in the national title game.  The stakes are high and you must take this very seriously.

Therefore, at this point, you can't just look at last week and adjust because that rewards the team with the loss that was longest ago and penalizes the ones that lost more recently even though we all have only one loss and each was to a top five school and each was to one of the two others. 

You have to go deeper than just starting from the status quo and making adjustments.  Here are some things we would like you to consider.

Of the three of us, we've each lost a game to one of the other two and won a game against one of the other two.  But Texas is the only one of the teams who got their win away from home.

We're the only team that had to play a stretch of four top ten teams in a row.

We're the only team who has to play the leader of the Big 12's North Division and I might add that we did quite well in that game.

We have reached our record, the same record we share with the other two teams, in a more compelling fashion because it was against teams who, at the time we played the games, were considered a tougher test and includes a strong Missouri team that neither of the other two had to play.

Finally, I know that past performance is no guarantee of future success, but something else that needs to be considered is how each school typically performs in bowl games.  At the end of the day, the whole point of this is to give the paying customers, college football's loyal fans, the best chance to see a great game. 

We're 6-1 in our last seven bowl trips including winning both BCS bowls we've played in.  Texas Tech simply doesn't have BCS game history to draw any conclusions from and OU doesn't seem to do well with the long layoff between the last game and the bowl game.  OU is 3-4 during that same span and 1-4 in BCS bowl games.

When you look at the season as a whole and the entire body of work, it becomes clear that Texas is the most deserving of the three teams in question.

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If Mack Brown calls a press conference and says something to that effect, he stands a good chance of keeping his Longhorns in the national title picture.  Short of that, I believe this flawed mentality that weighs the more recent loss as somehow worse than an earlier loss will negatively impact Texas.