Oklahoma jumps Texas in new BCS rankings

espn.com ^ | 11/30/08

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

You will have to ask a ut fan about colt - I don’t care enough to know anything about him. ;^)

[Paleo Conservative]

I apologize you are correct, but Tech still scored 28 unanswered points after the final 7 scored by Baylor in the 3rd.

That's mathematically impossible. Tech won 35-28. Your theory would have forced them to have scored 42 points.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

You are correct - only two teams from each division can go to BCS.

[GunRunner]

Texas Tech is the better School!

Yeah, but to attend you still have to live in Lubbock. Big downside.

[GOP_Raider]

...how can a team play for the National Championship without winning their own conference?

This has actually happened twice in the current BCS era of college football, both of them Big XII teams.

In 2001, Nebraska was undefeated and on their way to playing in the Big XII Title game and lost badly to Colorado. They got to the Rose Bowl (the designated title game that year) and lost to Miami (Oregon was thought by many to be the team that should have played for the title that year).

Two years later, Oklahoma was set to go to the national title game going into the Big XII title game. Kansas State pulled off the upset in Kansas City and the Sooners went to the title game, eventually losing to LSU. (USC was awarded the AP title that year).

[RabidBartender]

Texas Tech 39, Texas 33. Those on-field results meant something.

[arrogantsob]

Oh, please the Cowboys were notorious long before Barry got there. Read Pete Gent if you doubt it.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Geez, blame my husband.. lol... 21 unanswered points. And that is my final answer.. lol

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Yeah, Lubbock is missing that whole hippy contingent and liberal mindset you have in Austin. We survive though.

[TheBigB]

I would think the loser of the AL-FL game would go to the Sugar Bowl, regardless...

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

So he did nothing to clean up the program? Is that supposed to show his character? He continued the same crap in Dallas

[GunRunner]

45-35

[TheBigB]

I do understand that a team that doesn't win its conference can play for the NC, which is why I phrased my post as I did...mention it as an ongoing question, rather than as fact. :o) Still a valid topic for discussion, IMHO...

[RabidBartender]

I think you’re right. Ohio State has 2 losses, Florida would have 2.

Just checked the rules though, and it looks like Ball State is eligible, but would have to be selected.

I feel more sympathy for Ball State (12-0), Boise State (12-0), and Utah (12-0) than a lot of the other teams though.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I think it should be a question though. Why should a team be crowned by the BCS if they can’t even win their own division?

[TheBigB]

Whether it’s in the NC game or not, I would love to see OK-FL, as I think they have the two most unstoppable offenses in the nation right now...

[RabidBartender]

"Whether it’s in the NC game or not, I would love to see OK-FL, as I think they have the two most unstoppable offenses in the nation right now..."

And it very probably pits the Heisman trophy winner against the Heisman runner-up. I can see the TV guys drooling now.

[lewisglad]

The Kansas Jayhawks may have just done Texas a big favor. Losing the Border War could humiliate MU into taking down Oklahoma next week at Arrowhead!

November 29, 2008

The 2008-2009 Kansas Jayhawks gather for the tradtional group portrait in front of the scoreboard following their 40-37 Border War victory over Missouri Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008 at Arrowhead Stadium

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

We done earnded it.

[Paleo Conservative]

Hmmmm....Matthew 5:48?

LOL!