BCS Standings
USC's fifth, Oklahoma grabs the valued No. 2 spot and Oregon State goes tumbling out of the top 25. Mighty Penn State, the likely bowl opponent, is No. 8.
1. Alabama (12-0) .9713 1 1 2815 .9965 1 1521 .9974 3 92 .920
2. Oklahoma (11-1) .9351 3 4 2569 .9094 2 1397 .9161 1 98 .980
3. Texas (11-1) .9223 2 3 2575 .9115 3 1396 .9154 2 94 .940
4. Florida (11-1) .8851 4 2 2619 .9271 4 1385 .9082 6 82 .820
5. USC (10-1) .8076 5 5 2378 .8418 5 1298 .8511 8 73 .730
6. Utah (12-0) .7844 6 7 2111 .7473 7 1153 .7561 5 85 .850
7. Texas Tech (11-1) .7805 7 8 2090 .7398 8 1116 .7318 4 87 .870
8. Penn State (11-1) .7373 8 6 2177 .7706 6 1176 .7711 9 67 .670
9. Boise State (12-0) .7034 9 9 1937 .6857 9 1044 .6846 7 74 .740
10. Ohio State (10-2) .6340 10 10 1856 .6570 10 999 .6551 11 59 .590
11. Texas Christian (10-2) .5633 14 12 1502 .5317 11 836 .5482 10 61 .610
12. Ball State (12-0) .5306 15 11 1526 .5402 13 765 .5016 12 55 .550
13. Cincinnati (10-2) .4831 16 13 1425 .5044 12 770 .5049 15 44 .440
14. Oklahoma State (9-3) .4276 12 14 1217 .4308 15 613 .4020 T-13 45 .450
15. Georgia Tech (9-3) .4046 22 16 1065 .3770 16 590 .3869 T-13 45 .450
16. Georgia (9-3) .3311 11 20 833 .2949 19 440 .2885 16 41 .410
17. Boston College (9-3) .3202 21 19 834 .2952 20 435 .2852 17 38 .380
18. Brigham Young (10-2) .3142 18 17 990 .3504 18 461 .3023 18 29 .290
19. Oregon (9-3) .3041 23 15 1076 .3809 14 658 .4315 23 10 .100
20. Missouri (9-3) .2818 13 18 896 .3172 17 470 .3082 20 22 .220
21. Michigan State (9-3) .2550 19 21 688 .2435 21 414 .2715 19 25 .250
22. Northwestern (9-3) .1216 24 22 414 .1465 22 333 .2184 NR 0 .000
23. Pittsburgh (8-3) .1012 25 23 346 .1225 23 154 .1010 T-24 8 .080
24. Florida State (8-4) .0768 20 29 30 .0106 29 15 .0098 21 21 .210
25. Virginia Tech (8-4) .0573 NR 27 71 .0251 26 41 .0269 22 12 .120
The Longhorns are pissed, and rightfully so. I can only hope that OU with an injured Bradford loses to Mizzu and further tarnishes the BCS system.
Let's face facts...it's USC v. Penn St in the Rose Bowl. Even if Oklahoma loses to Missouri, USC will not pass Texas for a spot in the BCS title game. USC is too far behind in the computers to make it up in one week against 4-7 UCLA. Besides, Texas got screwed out of the Big 12 title game. If Oklahoma loses, the human voters will rationalize that Texas should have gone to the Big 12 title game (and would have beaten Missouri again). The other spot will go the Fla-Ala winner, no matter how that game turns out.
If Texas does go ahead of USC to the BCS Title game, it will be the third time that a non-champ from the Big 12 went ahead of the Pac 10 champs. Oregon got royally screwed by Nebraska (who didn't make Big 12 title game) in 2001, and USC got screwed by Oklahoma (who lost Big 12 Title game to Kansas St.) in 2003.
Unlike the past, USC gets no late-season boost from beating rivals ND and UCLA this year. Moreover, the Pac-10 did no favors by losing all those games to the Mountain West. Ohio St losing to Penn St and Virginia losing in the mediocre ACC didn't help either.
I still can't fathom how USC lost to Oregon St., especially after the Ducks opened up a can of whoopass on the Beavers. USC missed out of the BCS title game because of one bad half....no, make that one freak play...the tipped ball caught in the endzone to make it 21-0 right before the half.
Beat the bRuins!!
Beat the Nittany Lions!!
Fight On!!
Don't forget about the idiotic personal foul on Averil Spicer on the failed third down play that made that freak play possible.
I'll bet Pete's still pissed off about that one.