BCS Poll 2007

Week 7

#1 Mizzou
#2 West Virginia
#3 Ohio St
#4 UGA
#5 Kansas
#6 Virginia Tech
#7 LSU

This was what the poll looked like this week in 2007, going into Championship Weekend. Here's a recap of what happened next.

Mizzou got blown ouy by OU in the Big 12 Championship. WVU lost to PITT in their final game. OSU was idle, having last played on November 17th! UGA was idle, because they did not win the SECE (sound familiar?) Kansas was idle having not won it's division in the Big 12 (a trend is forming!) VT beat Boston College in the Big East Championship game. LSU beat Tennessee in the SEC Championship game.

Things settled like this in the final poll:

#1 OSU
#2 LSU
#3 VT
#4 UGA
#5 Mizzou
#6 USC
#7 Kansas

Mizzou and WVU lost their way out of the game so they got tossed.

And then things get strange, at least in terms of the way the polls traditionally work. UGA and LSU had not played each other, so what the pollsters CLEARLY did was decide that a team that had not even won it's side of the conference should not jump a team that had won the same conference title. Boom...down goes UGA. Same for Kansas. The teams hadn't played each other but Kansas had not even won its division, let along its conference. Bye bye, Jayhawks.

With the normal "it's better to lose early than late" way the polls usually work, VT should then have slid into the #2 spot. But, the voters took their heads out of their collective asses and went back and realized that LSU had curb stomped VT earlier in the season and it would make no sense at all to have a team that had lost directly to LSU be ahead of them. Kudoes to the pollsters for getting it right, here. Then there's UGA.

Now...will the voters do it again and slide BAMA to #2 with a OSU win over OU? I have no clue, but I think they will. The point of this is only to show that they HAVE done quite a bit of re-evaluating in the final poll once before...so it would not exactly be treading new ground by penalizing BAMA for MERELY being the SECW runners-up.