ALL HAIL THE ALPHABETICAL, BCS RANKINGS, MASS HYSTERIA
The Alphabetical is up in all its glory. We think the letters are all there. More importantly, the BCS has decided that the criteria for valuation is who wins biggest and last, because Oklahoma is above Texas in the fresh rankings, and will therefore get the shot at a Big 12 Championship this week. You go ahead and just let that outrage out, you outraged person, you.
If Oklahoma somehow loses to Missouri–probability ZERO but we state it for the record anyway–then all blazing, many-tentacled hell breaks loose. Until then, welcome your new/old overlord Bob Stoops. Get your Vanessa Carlton on like it’s 2002 all over again!
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BurritoBrosShits says:
The outrage and riot is occurring at Peter’s place right now. Reading the comments is both sadly funny and absolutely painful. I’m pouring a little out for my burnt orange brethren.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
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D. says:
Oh man, the Gators must be ecstatic! Come January, end of first quarter or so, they get to be West Virginia/Boise State/ USC version 2009.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
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Innocent Bystander says:
Thank you for that photo. I will now be re-enacting the face-melting scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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Holly says:
hisssssssssssssss. Good day.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
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Chilltown says:
EDSBS Live this week is going to be epic. Perhaps, just perhaps, this might be the catalyst for a real playoff.
On second thought, nah, it probably won’t.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
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hobeg8r says:
O -
Reesing’s performance pales in comparison to the Pouncey Twins’ performance @ FSU after the week they had following their stepfather’s horrific accident.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
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BurritoBrosShits says:
I expect Peter to be uproariously plastered. My God the BCS is confounding.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
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Tractorr says:
Is it just me or does it seem possible that Florida could get left out of the National Championship should they beat Alabama. Right now the computer have them ranked at 6. Considering that the computer have Alabama ranked at 3(???). Isn’t it possible that Florida may not jump many of the teams ahead of them in the computers? Then if OU wins and the voters decide to move them up to one, only move Florida up to 2, and leave Texas at 3 couldn’t Florida still end up 3 in the BCS.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
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Whohah says:
To: Texas Fans
From: Cal Fans
RE: BCS Standings
Payback is a bitch, have fun at the Holiday Bowl.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
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CKGator says:
We’ll get left out, the BCS title game will be a re-match, and you know what will happen to the BCS next year?
Not a damned thing.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
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whohah is dumb says:
To: Cal Fans
From: Texas Fans
We may have gotten screwed in regards to the Big 12 and NCAA Championships, but we will still be in a BCS bowl, not the holiday bowl. Go hug some trees.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
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Whohah says:
Or Fiesta Bowl. Whatever. HAAAATE.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
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The Humanitarian says:
Perhaps this happens when you schedule Rice, UTEP, and Florida Atlantic?
If you’re so tough, play real teams every week.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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John says:
After seeing the human polls, I was expecting it to be Texas because I thought they would have a slight edge in the computers. But Oklahoma ended up having such a huge edge with the computers that their average is now ahead of Alabama.
The PB vs. Orson Bowl is still possible. Alabama beats Florida in the SECCG and is ranked number one, Oklahoma wins the Big 12 and is number 2. The Sugar picks Texas with their replacement pick and the Fiesta picks Utah because they’d send more fans than Florida. The Sugar picks Florida as their at-large the Fiesta would either pick Boise State or Ohio State.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
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Anselm says:
To: Cal Fans
From: Texas Fans
RE: RE: BCS Standings
Cal was terribly undeserving, which Tech made it quite evidently clear.
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Payback is a bitch, have fun at the Holiday Bowl.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
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drifter379 says:
All I have to say is Texas beat both teams playing for the Big XII title. If that does not lead to some sort of change in the system then I say fuck it all. I QUIT!!!
November 30th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
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Julia says:
How could you think the computers would have the bias that the SECRET ballot human polls have where all kinds of shenanigans go on? Why do you think Mack Brown was interrupting the OU/OSU game and flying planes all over the place with banners and basically staging a political campaign to win votes. How pathetic. And we all know how that goes- don’t we. I bet Mack Brown bought votes by agreeing to all sorts of votes in return. Bob Stoops gave up his vote in the stupid coaches poll because its a SHAM and Stoops has class and integrity. Texas barely beat OSU at home by a mere 4 points. Texas didn’t beat anybody this year except for OU. Too bad it was a three way tie but it was so shut up already.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
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italiangator says:
13, can you inform us as to your previous position so that we can have HR getting on filling that spot as quickly as possibly? Thaaaaaanks.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
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NRBQ says:
Mark May, that girth-faced melonhead.
If Paul Johnson faced fourth down and the width of May’s noggin, he’d punt the ball.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
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them oklahoma says:
13- Well, I guess ya’ll should have beaten Tech. Honestly, it may be more fun in this scenario than if OU had just ran the table. Say OU wins against Fla/Bama, then we get the trophy AND make texan heads explode all through the winter, spring and summer. Triumph + schaudenfrued = awesome. This has GOT to be the karmic return for the Oregon nonsense from a few years back.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
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Rob says:
#13: Then quit. Texas was #1, had their win over the hardest team on their schedule, and had the inside track on the division championship – and they blew it. In fact in their loss they only led on the scoreboard for 1:28, and got owned in nearly every possible statistical category by Texas Tech. The same Texas Tech that got blown halfway to Mother Russia a week ago by Oklahoma.
I thought Texas would stay ahead of Oklahoma too, but they pretty much got what they deserved for not taking care of business.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
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Chloe Denmark says:
I have to agree with #11. OU has played 5 of the current top 15 teams in the BCS, and beat 4 of them. Plus, played and owned a ranked (at the time) KU team. Although ‘Bama went undefeated, they didn’t even play that many ranked teams.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
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westbrooke says:
Yes, Texas beat both teams playing for the Big 12 title, and they lost a game they shouldn’t have shortly after. The bottom line is: you lose a game, you lose the moral high ground in these arguments. Texas still had a very strong argument to be ranked ahead of the pack, as did OU. Hell, you could even mount a (less convincing) argument for Tech. I nearly sucked a bullet from a pistol last night when I found myself agreeing with Lou Holtz, who, in his senile grandfatherly sort of way, stated that he could see the argument _for_ both UT and OU but couldn’t bring himself to argue _against_ either of them.
I honestly believe that OU is the team playing better football right now and, by a slim margin, the system in place agrees. Fair? That concept was abandoned long ago. So, we’re going to end another year arguing about who really deserved what. That puts 2008 in the company of every other year the game of college football has been played without a playoff.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
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Counter Trap says:
Note to Tressel:
If you end up in the Fiesta against Texas…preposition the ambulances.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
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Der Schatten says:
@18. As I recall, we played two teams in the top ten at the time, absolutely melted their fucking gonads off, then won the hatefest against #11 LSU in BR. Oh, and um, did beat that Ole Miss team, for a total of 5 bowl bodies. While not as impressive a body of work as OU’s (admittedly), it is A) not our fault that UT and the Barn didn’t live up their worth, and B) that no one, and I mean absolufuckinglutely no one in the Big 12 plays defense.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
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NavinRJohnson says:
I wish flaming hot death on this whole bullshit system. 45-35. 56-31. Hook ‘em.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
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Brian says:
I am disliking the expanded ACC more and more every year. I harken for the halcyon days of yore…which to be honest I did not know, where you just got invited to the best bowl that wanted you, and there could be two national champs…which isn’t nonsensical with 119 teams. BOO to ‘progress.’
November 30th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
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www.southbendblarney.com says:
How about doing an alphabetical calling Charlie Weis “fat” in a bunch of different ways? Irish fans would love that, as thing are getting pretty vicious after these last 2 weeks. Might not get all 26 letters, but it’d be close.
November 30th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
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SpartanDan says:
#12: The Fiesta can nix it if the Sugar Bowl tries to take Texas – that’s a rule that was put in after the Orange Bowl took Iowa in ‘02 to replace Miami. And they probably would.
#21: Agreed on the first sentiment. As to the second: 33-39. You want Texas Tech in there instead?
There’s no obvious way to break the tie by conference play – even looking at opponents in the other division, both beat a 5-3 team (Missouri or Nebraska), a 4-4 team, and a 2-6 team, so strength of conference schedule fails too. At this point, the only obvious thing to do is look at something about non-conference play and/or the full season.
I fail to see why throwing out the lowest team and taking head-to-head among the top two (the approach Texas fans are obviously favoring, and, it must be said, the approach the ACC and SEC would take here since the teams are sufficiently close in the rankings) is any more valid than picking the highest-ranked and being done with it. It’d be better if the system had no subjectivity in it, something regarding strength of schedule maybe, but as it is someone gets to complain about beating the division representative and getting left out anyway no matter who gets picked.
November 30th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
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TJ says:
If a bowl loses it’s conference to the title game, it gets first pick of a replacement from that conference. So Sugar would pick Florida and Fiesta would pick Texas. No chance of a non MNC matchup.
November 30th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
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NavinRJohnson says:
@21: How do you see Tech winning the North?
November 30th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
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NavinRJohnson says:
…duh… @24 that is…
November 30th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
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Dr. Ed phdxyz says:
I don’t have a dog in the fight, but Texas got screwed! What a bunch of HORSESHIT.
November 30th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
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Chloe Denmark says:
Der Schatten, I’m not taking away Alabama’s ranking, or the fact that OU’s secondary has always scared the shit out of me, I’m just stating it’s easy to see how the computers ranked OU #1. And I’m all for an SEC/B12 MNC. Rational (although few of us) Big 12 fans realize that defense is lacking, but at least 61-41 is far more exciting than the Auburn/Miss State battle back in September…
November 30th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
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PortTrojan says:
Is that Jeff Tedford giggling in the background?
November 30th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
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History_Ant says:
I don’t want to get too far ahead (and lose all this enjoyable invective), but what happens when Texas and Oklahoma end in a rematch in Miami even after Florida downs Alabama? How wide-spread and far-flung is the devastation in such a scenario? World War Z, or merely Europe circa 1945?
Fingers crossed…
November 30th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
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tempebamafan says:
BAMA is going to beat florida, and then beat the ever living piss out of OU or tejas or tejas tech. the big 12 teams this season are even shittier than normal. OU. tejas, and tejas tech all suck a fat dick and would finish a combined 0-6 against BAMA and florida.
November 30th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
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Steve-O says:
What a bunch of fucking idiots.
@#16, don’t you realize that a team could go 2-6 in the conference and still be watching two teams it beat play for the conference title? I know, let’s put a 2-6 team in the conference championship.
Secondly, @ everyone arguing that it’s effectively a two way tie in the Big XII: how do you eliminate TTU from consideration based on their margin of defeat to OU, thus placing UT into CCG by virtue of their head to head win over OU? Are you seriously arguing that if OU had only won on a last second TD, say 39-33, that TTU would then be in consideration, meaning OU’s better overall resume (IMO) would place them in the CCG? In effect, OU would have benefited by winning by fewer points against TTU?
@Texas fans, your best argument is to say that conference titles should be based solely on conference play. Personally, I’d favor a computer ranking, including MOV, (a la Sagarin Predictor) among conference games to settle a conference champion. You’d probably have won under this method.
Lastly, for all the bitching about the Big XII’s tiebreaker system, they have it right, at least as far a money and stature are concerned. The conference’s job is to make sure it’s members have the best chance of being represented in the BCS National Championship. Therefore, it’s logical to make sure that it’s divisional champions are the best positioned to play for the crystal ball. This year, it probably wouldn’t have mattered, but imagine if the BCS rankings of OU, UT, and TTU weren’t 2,3, and 7(?), but 2,6, and 7. If the 6th place team were selected by virtue of an SEC style tiebreaker, then you’ve probably just fucked your conference out of a national title appearance.
November 30th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
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Dr. Ed phdxyz says:
Go Gators, Shut these delusional cocksuckers up.
November 30th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
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Land of Os(borne) says:
Does this mean Nebraska wins the North? I mean,
1. Nebraska and Mizzou both finished 5-3 in conference.
2. Mizzou beat Nebraska
3. Nebraska Wins!!
Blow this thing up. College football needs to read some Schumpeter – creative destruction and all that.
November 30th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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ATL au tiger says:
was it not:
- Oklahoma that lost a conference championship and still wound up in the BCS Championship game?
- Oklahoma that stayed ahead of Auburn in BCS standings although Auburn defeated more Top 20 teams and teams with winning records?
- Oklahoma that jumped over Texas although Texas beat them and BCS stars show Texas’ schedule ranked number 1 in difficulty and Oklahoma’s is number 3?
Face it. For some reason they own karma. And yes, I’m still bitter over 2004.
November 30th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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Rob says:
#29: “As to the second: 33-39. You want Texas Tech in there instead?”
Absolutely not, I think of the three teams Tech probably had the least sound case to make. I apparently undervalued how much the computers were going to take the nonconference schedule into account, and that’s where Oklahoma won big from the way it sounds.
#39: No, because you forgot the part where there wasn’t a three-way tie in the north and a convoluted tie-breaker system to resolve it. Besides, watching Missouri get mauled by Oklahoma will be more amusing than watching Nebraska get destroyed again for the second time in six weeks.
November 30th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
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Soonertruth says:
The longhorns aren’t even the best team in Texas. Shouldn’t you have to win your own pompous ass of a state to be able to compete for your conference title?
November 30th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
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PW says:
What’s so convoluted about the tie-breaker?
1) Head-to head — which resolved nothing, since each was 1-1 vs. the other two teams
2) BCS standings, which is a neutral means of breaking the tie.
I think the SEC has (or used to have) some sort of tiebreaker involving the coaches voting for the winner. Would you rather have that? I think not.
November 30th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
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yoyofutbawl says:
39
Keith Olberman thinks Joe S. played wingback for Yale in the late 1800’s. Bush & Obama both have sed that he is on the “No Fly List”. Mike Leach discusses his econ theory versus the Keynsian Model and Thorstein Veblen’s at length.
The BCS will be OU vs. Tejas. UF beets Bammer & gets screwed due to the SEC being sooooo mediocre this year.
November 30th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
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BurritoBrosShits says:
If Florida beats Alabama, it’s possible that the Gators will not pass Texas in the BCS. Goddamn it. HOW THE FUCK IS THIS SUPPOSED TO WORK???!?!?!?!?!? I mean really…. I’ve been trying to remain calm and collected and shit, but this is insane.
November 30th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
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Mr.Pelican Pants says:
I think Fate has a hand in Bamas success.
Here is how the stars are aligning and its freakin me out. Facts:
1. Nick Saban is in his second year and has the “2nd Year Magic” working strong for him…
2. Bama has won National Championships when there was a Democrat in office or being sworn into office—see 1992.
3. Bama has to play Florida for SEC Championship and is a heavy underdog–see also 1992–and I think one play will decide the fate of either team, last time it was a late Pick 6 from Shane Matthews……
4. Bama has a strong defense and a strong running game and a “game manager” at QB—see 1992
5. This year is really Bama’s only real shot since some guys may go pro and some key elements will graduate. Breaking in a new QB to the SEC doesnt work too well in the first yr….see Auburn, LSU, etc…
6. If Bama wins vs. Florida, they will be the underdog against OU. Stoops will then fall flat on his face AGAIN on the biggest of big stages for the 3rd time….or 4th? 5th? I really wanted to play Texas since they actually beat a good OU team, straight up, and beat Mizzou, so WTF? Who do you have to pay off to get some love? Oh yeh, Texas Tech, via transitive properties beat Texas which beat OU that beat Texas Tech which beat Texas…..why dont they just spin a “wheel of fortune” (which is what I think the coaches do when they vote anyway) 10 times and whoever comes up the most wins…..PB, we feel your pain,and it is because Mack Brown is too nice for not running up the score and cheap theatrics like a backwoods attorney–see Stoops….
November 30th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
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Anonymous IV says:
Pegboy meet BCS.
November 30th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
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drifter379 says:
In the same scenario in any other conference Texas goes to the championship game. And for those of you arguing SOS Texas did not play a 1AA school unlike blOU. I guess if Mac was not such a nice guy he should have voted Texas #1 in the coaches poll. That would have solved everything. I want to know who besides Mike Leach voted blOU #1?
November 30th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
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Mr.Pelican Pants says:
Can Obama get a congressional investigation? Hell, how bout Bush on his way out since he is from Texas?
What good does it do you to win against your rival?
How does Jeff Sagarin even get involved with his Voodoo Math? Play it on the field, or hell, let NCAA 2009 simulate the seasons 100 times like it does for Whatifsports.com? I guess Texas gets to see how Auburn felt, cept AU was undefeated and because they played the Citadel, they were left out via SOS…So I guess change your schedule to a murderers rows, non conference at least, and let the pieces fall where they may…..and I am talking head to head creme of the crop Big 12 vs SEC vs Big 10 vs Pac 10, so if we cant have a playoff, we can have some sort of litmus test to see who is the strongest, in and out of conference, at least have the Top 4 of each conference play each other randomly….all I have seen is 2 really good SEC teams beating up on the conference and the Big 12 really just beating weaker opponents and running up the score in and out of conference. TT never scared me, all OU did was get them out of sync, Texas played a good OU team on a neutral site and beat em, then they turn around and drop one on the last play to TT….what irks me is watching the OSU game, THEY call a timeout ,down by 2 scores, not really a blowout, and with 20 secs left—then it looked to me that they LET OU score so they would have a higher point margin since NO ONE TRIED TO TACKLE THE RUNNER,and I think Gundy has a brother or something on the OU staff….makes ya go mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
November 30th, 2008 at 11:20 pm