The ACC champion goes to the Orange Bowl, not the Fiesta. The Big East champion is not tied to any specific bowl.
AP Poll -- Coaches Poll 1 Oregon(36) -- Oregon(46) 2 Auburn(23) -- Auburn(10) 3 TCU(1) -- TCU(3) 4 Wisconsin -- Wisconsin 5 Stanford -- Stanford 6 Ohio St. -- Ohio St. 7 Michigan St. -- Michigan St. 8 Arkansas -- Arkansas 9 Boise St. -- Oklahoma 10 Oklahoma -- Boise St. 11 LSU -- Virginia Tech 12 Virginia Tech -- LSU 13 Nebraska -- Nebraska 14 Nevada -- Missouri 15 Missouri -- Oklahoma St. 16 Oklahoma St. -- South Carolina 17 Alabama -- Nevada 18 South Carolina -- Texas A&M 19 Texas A&M -- Alabama 20 Florida St. -- Florida St. 21 Utah -- Utah 22 Mississippi St. -- Mississippi St. 23 West Virginia -- Northern Illinois 24 Northern Illinois -- West Virginia 25 Hawaii -- Central Florida
Harris top 10: Ore, Aub, TCU, Wisc, Stanf, OhioSt, MichSt, Ark, Okla, BoiseSt. LSU is No. 11. Harris poll has Okla at No. 9, Okla State at 16 & Texas A&M at 19. BCS standings determine who plays in Big 12 title game
BCS: 25 Northern Illinois 24 West Virginia 23 Arizona 22 Mississippi St. 21 Florida St. 20 Utah 19 South Carolina 18 Texas A&M 17 Nevada 16 Alabama 15 Virginia Tech 14 Oklahoma St. 13 Nebraska 12 Missouri 11 Boise St. 10 LSU 9 Oklahoma 8 Michigan St. 7 Arkansas 6 Ohio St 5 Wisconsin 4 Stanford 3 TCU 2 Oregon 1 Auburn
Switch Big East Champ and VT/FSU. Stanford will go to the Orange Bowl and face VT/FSU if UConn is the Big East champ. However if WVU wins then the Orange will probably select them over Stanford and Stanford can go to the Fiesta Bowl. Hopefully it works out like this Orange: VT/FSU vs WVU Fiesta: OU/Neb vs Stanford
If strength of schedule is SO important for the arguments that people make against TCU, why is nobody mentioning that TCU's strength of schedule is better than Oregon's right now? http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1158751
No it's not, I'm looking at Sagarin's ratings and Oregon's SOS is 19th, while TCU's is 76th....that is not even remotely close, I haven't checked the other computer polls but I bet it's similar. I think there might be a misprint in that Rivals chart. Edit: I see they used the NCAA's SOS numbers, which appear to be a statistical outlier compared with the oens that the computer polls use and show a much tougher sched for Oregon than for TCU.
The NCAA SOS is a really inaccurate number. It basically just looks at won-loss records of opponents, but doesn't really look at the strength of those opponents.
Are you passive-aggressively making the argument that the MWC is stronger than the Pac-10? It's not by any objective or subjective measure if so.
That's because they play more conference games (9 as opposed to 8) and easily play the toughest nonconference schedules in the country. The extra conference game means one less freebie win for schools, and the tough nonconference schedules mean a lot more losses. If they all had extra 1 freebie win, they'd have 6 bowl eligible teams (plus USC, who's only ineligible due to probation).
