Now It Gets Interesting
The new AP poll is out, and Oklahoma is now sharing the #2 spot it held last week with Auburn, which was at #3 last week.
I think that's exactly what Bob Stoops was trying to head off with his attempt to run up the score against Nebraska. The irony is, however, that he failed to run up the score while trying, which I might be inclined to penalize if I were a voter and had been watching the thing (if you're gonna try to run up the score against a defeated opponent, be successful like Steve Spurrier -- otherwise it just looks lame).
Here's something that's even more interesting -- undefeated Utah leapfrogged #6 Texas to take the #5 slot.
That's bad news for Texas, which escaped Lawrence with a victory thanks to a bad offensive pass interference call, because that puts Cal and Utah in the top six. If those two schools wind up in the top six of the overall BCS standings, Cal and Utah would stand to get the two at-large BCS bids (and most likely send Texas back to the Holiday Bowl).
Obviously, there are games to be played yet and time for things to shake up further, but this is getting really interesting. One constant remains -- Texas under Mack Brown should probably wait until the very end before getting overly excited about that elusive BCS bid.
(11-15-2004) Bad news for Texas -- Utah is #6 in the latest BCS rankings, which would freeze Texas out of a BCS bowl if invitations were extended today.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 11/14/04 17:52 | Sports | Technorati
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Does the BCS babybowl start this year, next year, or was it scrapped?
Posted by R. Alex @ 12:57 on 11/15/04
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