at least this part is true.
1 Texas 11 1 75 48 742 698 0.5783 0.04 2 1 0.04 0.00
2 Georgia 8 3 69 47 652 715 0.5555 0.08 4 2 0.08 0.00
3 Oklahoma 10 1 71 53 711 674 0.5528 0.12 5 2 0.12 0.00
4 Arkansas 4 7 69 47 637 724 0.5526 0.16 3 -1 0.16 0.00
5 Virginia 4 7 66 47 650 689 0.5512 0.20 9 4 0.20 0.00
6 Pittsburgh 9 3 71 53 714 742 0.5452 0.24 6 0 0.32 0.08
7 Kansas 6 5 67 50 651 707 0.5416 0.28 7 0 0.24 -0.04
8 Ohio State 9 2 68 52 664 726 0.5370 0.32 8 0 0.48 0.16
9 Oregon St 8 4 72 57 745 783 0.5346 0.36 10 1 0.28 -0.08
10 Duke 3 8 61 49 650 664 0.5346 0.40 23 13 0.44 0.04
11 North Carolina St 5 6 62 51 654 678 0.5294 0.44 16 5 0.52 0.08
12 Florida 10 1 64 55 698 669 0.5287 0.48 1 -11 0.56 0.08
13 Michigan 3 9 67 56 716 728 0.5284 0.52 13 0 0.60 0.08
14 Michigan St 9 3 67 57 729 728 0.5270 0.56 19 5 0.68 0.12
15 Purdue 3 8 68 55 660 730 0.5268 0.60 14 -1 0.64 0.04
16 Syracuse 2 9 68 55 663 740 0.5261 0.64 11 -5 0.84 0.20
17 Washington 0 12 70 59 750 782 0.5249 0.68 17 0 0.96 0.28
18 North Carolina 7 4 60 53 667 652 0.5225 0.72 36 18 0.80 0.08
19 Utah St 3 9 69 55 666 804 0.5220 0.76 26 7 0.72 -0.04
20 Clemson 5 5 59 50 620 664 0.5218 0.80 32 12 0.88 0.08
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notice who is missing from the top 20 when it comes to strength of schedule.
Yeah, Texas is #1 one in Schedule but not in the computers (which helped them get over Texas)
But using your reasoning of teams in the top 10 with an identical record but one has a win over the other than they deserve a shot.
So Texas Tech beat Texas 39-33.
So using your logic Texas Tech should get an at large bid??"?
They are obviously better than Texas, there can be no arguement made there.
you really should stop while you are behind...
lets go in reverse order... they are not OBVIOUSLY better than Texas... they got to play them in Lubbock, in Austin that is a different game. if you disagree with that then you are dumber than i thought...
texas tech has the 22nd most difficult schedule in the nation, texas has 1 and OK has 3... that is why this conversation never at any point included tech.
my reasoning you are incorrectly (shocker) reading is about strength of schedule, not actual ranking.
texas is widely known as playing the toughest stretch of games in all of college football this year... starting with oklahoma, not at home but, on a neutral field.
honestly you are embarassing yourself.
texas is the second best team in the country... can't get much better than that unless they get to play florida.
with that said i could care less if texas was 3 and oklahoma was number 1.. if you are a jayhawk fan pay careful attention to what i am about to say.
in that chart kansas has played one of the toughest schedules all year... if kansas had beaten oklahoma on a neutral field by 10 points and had only one loss all year and it came to texas tech in lubbock would you think they should be the top contender?
of course you would.
Using tiebreakers from any other major conference Texas would be playing for the conference title and a shot at the national championship tonight. But the Big 12 didn't count on the fifth tiebreaker ever coming into play so they kept the "highest-ranked in the BCS" rule in effect, and all teams in the conference knew about it.
So Texas probably did get screwed, but they lost all right to complain about it the moment Michael Crabtree stepped into the end zone. If they had taken care of business in Lubbock -- if Blake Gideon had just held on to that damned gift of an interception -- there would be no debate at all. Texas sitting at home tonight isn't the BCS's fault and it's not the Big 12's fault, it's Texas' fault.
So two teams that could beat the Longhorns are playing, and, yeah, Texas most likely "deserves" to be in the game. But like Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven" said, "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."
So Texas probably did get screwed, but they lost all right to complain about it the moment Michael Crabtree stepped into the end zone. If they had taken care of business in Lubbock -- if Blake Gideon had just held on to that damned gift of an interception -- there would be no debate at all. Texas sitting at home tonight isn't the BCS's fault and it's not the Big 12's fault, it's Texas' fault.
So two teams that could beat the Longhorns are playing, and, yeah, Texas most likely "deserves" to be in the game. But like Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven" said, "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."
also, a team in the top 4 of BCS automatically qualifies.
also, no more than 2 teams in one conference can make the BCS
where does that leave TTech? mad??
come on, TTech was destroyed by OU. they were shown to be a farce. Almost losing at home to Nebraska and Baylor confirmed it. Tech played a good game versus Texas, no doubt. They had Texas coming off 3 big games, night game in Lubbock, and pulled out a last second win.
But comparing teams, Texas is better
also, no more than 2 teams in one conference can make the BCS
where does that leave TTech? mad??
come on, TTech was destroyed by OU. they were shown to be a farce. Almost losing at home to Nebraska and Baylor confirmed it. Tech played a good game versus Texas, no doubt. They had Texas coming off 3 big games, night game in Lubbock, and pulled out a last second win.
But comparing teams, Texas is better
