{"id":22,"date":"2008-12-02T19:10:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T00:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bankrollsports.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2016-08-31T07:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:17:35","slug":"part-2-bcs-controversy-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bankrollsports.com\/blog\/part-2-bcs-controversy-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2 BCS Controversy Continues…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier in the week I discussed how crazy the BCS has gotten keeping the <\/span>Texas<\/span> Longhorns out of the Big 12 Championship game. Instead of <\/span>Texas<\/span>, <\/span>Oklahoma<\/span> is playing in the Big 12 Championship despite the Longhorns 45-35 win this season. The national media has assumed that the winner for the SEC Championship game would go on to play in the BCS National Championship. However, taking a closer look at the computer ratings things may be even more bizarre.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"BCS\"The Florida Gators are ranked #2 in the AP top 25 polls<\/a> but come in as the #4 team in the BCS rankings. The popular speculation is that Florida<\/span> would go play in the National Championship given they could defeat #1 <\/span>Alabama<\/span>. Although, with last weeks jumbled BCS rankings keeping <\/span>Texas<\/span> out of the Big 12 Championship a win for <\/span>Florida<\/span> still might not be enough to put them in the National Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Texas<\/span> is ranked #3 in the BCS Standing slightly behind <\/span>Oklahoma<\/span> at #2. The Sooners jumped the Longhorns last week in the standings by .0128 and that put the Sooners into their conference championship game over <\/span>Texas<\/span> due to the Big 12 tie breaking rules. The Big 12 rule for tie breakers state that the highest rated team in the BCS will win the tie breaker. So despite <\/span>Oklahoma<\/span> not be able to defeat <\/span>Texas<\/span> head to head, they will still represent the Big 12 South in the championship game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can you imagine how mad the state of Texas<\/span> has been this week? <\/span>Texas<\/span> has been kept out of the Big 12 Championship game and their chance to earn a spot in the National Championship game was taken away as well. <\/span>Texas<\/span> has been ahead of <\/span>Oklahoma<\/span> since the BCS ranking were released until last week which mattered most. Last week BCS standings determined the fate for the Longhorns, considering the Big 12 Championship will be held this weekend. <\/span>Texas<\/span> again felt like their chances have been stolen from them and there was nothing they could do to prevent it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not so fast Texas<\/span> faithful, taking a closer look at the BCS rankings things might actually not be so bad. Keeping <\/span>Texas<\/span> out of the Big 12 Championship may have in fact benefited them as much as playing and winning the championship game. <\/span>Florida<\/span> trails <\/span>Texas<\/span> in the BCS Standing by .0328 a pretty fair margin. <\/span>Florida<\/span> is an 8.5 point favorite to defeat the undefeated Alabama Crimson Tide. Assuming <\/span>Florida<\/span> does win the SEC Championship, it may not be enough to jump the ahead of a <\/span>Texas<\/span> team that does not have to play this weekend. The Longhorns computer ranking should not change while <\/span>Florida<\/span>\u2019s ranking may not be able to overcome the .0328 deficit placing <\/span>Texas<\/span> and most likely <\/span>Oklahoma<\/span> in a rematch for the National Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Florida<\/span> trails <\/span>Texas<\/span> by .160 in the computer rankings for the BCS while holding pretty even with <\/span>Texas<\/span> in the Harris and USA Today polls. If the Gators do pull off the victory over <\/span>Alabama<\/span>, they will definitely get some help from the Harris and USA Today polls which are human voters. However, the computer rankings that has to do with other things like strength of schedule will still favor <\/span>Texas<\/span>, but by how much? The Gators would have to receive a big help from the computers to overtake the Longhorns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then again things may not be that controversial after this weekend if Alabama<\/span> wins and <\/span>Oklahoma<\/span> loses. However, that will be tough for both of those things to happen. <\/span>Florida<\/span> as mentioned before is more than a touchdown favorite to win their game while <\/span>Oklahoma<\/span> is a two touchdown favorite to win the Big 12. In a perfect world, <\/span>Alabama<\/span> and <\/span>Missouri<\/span> will win and the BCS will again dodge another missile targeted to take down the BCS rankings forever. However, this year it will not happen. The chances of both <\/span>Alabama<\/span> and <\/span>Missouri<\/span> winning are bout as good as <\/span>Ohio<\/span> <\/span>State<\/span> beating an SEC team in a championship game. Even if <\/span>Alabama<\/span> can pull of the win over <\/span>Florida<\/span>, <\/span>Texas<\/span> fans will still feel like they have been robbed of an opportunity to play for the title. An opportunity they have earned.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Earlier in the week I discussed how crazy the BCS has gotten keeping the Texas Longhorns out of the Big 12 Championship game. Instead of Texas, Oklahoma is playing in the Big 12 Championship despite the Longhorns 45-35 win this season. The national media has assumed that the winner for the SEC Championship game would […]<\/p>\n

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