Don’t get me wrong - I’m with you that the system is broken. It needs to be changed and should never have gotten to this point.
The 3-way tie argument is for the Big XII South title, not the BCS. The argument I am seeing from some Texas fans is that Texas should represent the South because they beat Oklahoma, Texas Tech be damned.
If you’re arguing the BCS computer rankings - it doesn’t take into account for head-to-head, and it shouldn’t. Otherwise, imagine this scenario: Rice beats Texas this season (okay, imagine reeeeal hard) and goes on to have an undefeated season, while Texas wins the rest of their games (including over ranked Oklahoma, Tech, OSU, and Missouri). Who should be ranked higher in BCS? Rice beat Texas head-to-head. Texas has one loss, but played a tougher schedule - obviously, Texas should be.
If you’re looking for other arguments on why Oklahoma is ranked ahead of Texas in the BCS - OU beat a very good defensive ranked TCU team, as well as eventual Big East champ Cincinnati. Here’s my theory, if Arkansas was any good this year, and Texas beats them like they did, Texas is ahead of Oklahoma in the BCS.
Please don’t think I’m acting smug and saying “you guys got screwed, but we’re going to the title game”, I’m not. I just know the rules are in place and am amazed that some people can’t deal with it. If Texas would’ve ended up over Oklahoma yesterday, I would have thought “that sucked” and moved on, even though I think Oklahoma is the better team. I would have secretly pulled for Missouri to pull off the upset, but if they didn’t, I likely would have rooted for Texas against Florida, like I did when they beat the Spoiled Children a few years back.
The Southeastern Conference tiebreaker says that in the event of a three-way tie, the team that is rated the highest will be the division champion unless the second-highest team is within five places in the BCS standings. Then it reverts to head-to-head competition.
This is what I predict the Big 12 rule will be next year.
I know what the rules are.. now. Didn’t know them two months ago. And, of course we’ll “deal with it”.. what choice do we have? But, I don’t have to like it. And, I HOPE it gets changed.
Texas and OU didn’t play the first game of the season. And, there is not such a vast difference in the level of competition that they each played. We DON’T NEED A COMPUTER in a case like this to decide the difference... we had a game... a great game... between the TWO teams that are in the decision to be placed in the BCS Title track.
The AP voters figured that out. I’m dissapointed that the USA Today poll didn’t... but, even if they had, I don’t think it would have mattered in the BCS.
I think the loss that Texas suffered at Tech was much less of a “bad mark” on the team that what OU had in Dallas. The ONLY difference is... it was longer ago. It was by more points, on a neutral field, and during a soft part of the schedule.
Don’t get me wrong... I won’t be cheering for Bama, and certainly not for Florida... but, I don’t think OU will beat either one of them. For the record, I’m not sure Texas would either... But, I think we’d give them a better game.