Oh its already started with Stoops. I expect Brown to do a quite a bit of talking this week.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Obviously, now we're in the mix with everybody," Sooners coach Bob Stoops said. "With the way we played, you would think ahead. "The logic of whether to put us in front of Texas? If you can't do that because they beat us, then you've got to keep Texas Tech in front of Texas. What's logical for one is logical for the other."
Style points count and the beating they put on Tech lastnight was just about enough to catch them up in the rankings, especially considering that it was to a team that beat UT. Also, a win over #13 Ok. St. is going to look a lot better than a win over A&M. Also, when you lose is also a factor taken into consideration. OU losing early is going to help them.
Personally, I want OU to lose, and Tech to go to the Big 12 championship game, and UT go to the NC game.....basically where the Big 12 gets rendered moot. That would help blow up the BCS crap. DD
Looks like OU is in good shape as far as the potential 3-way tiebreaker goes: http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/8838706/Texas-moves-up-to-No.-2-in-BCS 1. Alabama, 0.987; 2. Texas, 0.920; 3. Oklahoma, 0.912; 4. Florida, 0.875; Texas needed a bit more of a lead, I think. OU beating OSU should be enough to vault them over Texas with some gains in the computers unless voters were to switch Texas back ahead of OU. But I can't imagine a voter will lower OU for beating OSU next week. Looks like Texas' hope for the NCG now rest on OU losing or some upsets happening in the SEC that leaves their champion behind Texas.
The human votes could balance itself next week as I'm sure most voters will think about the season as a whole rather than just at the previous week's game. Obviously OU's win lastnight really gave them a boost in the human votes, but if both teams win out, the voters will hopefully look at the head to head matchup.
It sounds like you are talking human voters. I'm talking CPU stuff. I thought there was no way OU could catch UT in CPU rankings....so I'm trying to clarify how that's possible. I'm fully aware that the humans could boost them.
Where did you hear that there was no way OU could catch up with UT in the computer rankings? I predicted a couple weeks back that OU would likely pass us in the computer rankings but would be almost a wash, therefore, the human votes is likely to decide things. Also, I read this on another website but a dominant win over Florida St. might pull some votes away from OU, which would be good for us.
Unsure. I just recall reading something like that somewhere. That's why I'm trying to get clarification...as if I were a 12 yr old.
One thing we can learn from this week: Voters do not care about head to head. Arguments that resort to head-to-head are not going to be persuasive. Tech lost by enough for it to come down to UT vs. OU and UT's win over OU didn't persuade many.
Ya thats going to be pretty embarasing for the BCS... But it wouldnt be like that if Tech would have made it just halfway respectable last night... I'll take a big 12 title/BCS apperance though thats a nice building block for our program. The fact that TEch was even in the national title discussion was pretty surreal.
They haven't beaten Auburn in six years, so yeah, there's a chance. If they lose it obviously will take away from the computer and poll boost Florida would get from thumping them in the SEC title game.
Could be - but you're hoping that voters will *drop* a team the day after they beat the #11 team in the country on the road. I just don't think it's all that likely.
Texas should stay ahead in the computers, though it will be close. That win over Missouri helps, though OU has TCU/Cinci. But OU also has a 1-AA team that hurts them.
Right - but Kansas is a halfway decent team that Texas beat on the road and OU was actually on a bye week. You can justify moving Texas up there because you got more information to say Texas is better than it was the day before. (The other week Texas moved up was when Texas beat Baylor and OU beat A&M - but again, that's easy because they both beat up on crap teams). It's much harder to justify moving OU down after Texas beats up A&M at home while OU beats the #11 team in the country on the road. If you thought OU was better today, you should think OU is better a week from now.
