Official BCS Discussion Thread

BCS STANDINGS

COACHES POLL

HARRIS POLL

Top BCS standings are:

1) LSU
2) Bama
3) Ok State
4) Stanford
5) Va Tech

REMATCH

While it is looking more likely that a rematch occurs, I am still not completely counting out Ok State of they beat OU. The will be ahead of Bama in all of the computers, which means in theory they only need 25% of voters to put them over Bama (as long as long as everyone else puts Ok State at #3 in their ballot). Ok State's real problem is Va Tech if they beat Clemson. It is hard to imagine ALL or MOST voters putting Ok State over the ACC Champ Va Tech - so Ok State basically needs Va tech to lose to have any chance.

The other problem for Ok State is Stanford, who beat a decent team this past week and was already ranked above them. I think if Ok State wins (especially big), most voters re-consider and put OSU above Stanford since Ok state at least won their conference and played a better schedule, but probably not all voters. So given that fact - OSU needs to win (probably by double digits), have Va Tech lose, and then convince ~1/3 of voters to vote for a team that actually won their conference and hasn't played LSU yet. I wouldn't bet on it, but it at least seems plausible.

If Va Tech won, they would have an argument - they won the ACC and beat every team on their schedule. But their computer score is way to weak and they would need to get 75+% of voters to change their mind and put them over Bama. I think that is close to impossible.

LSU LOSS

Yeah, I know, LSU can't lose. But for arguments sake, I think we are in no matter what happens in the SECCG. In order for LSU to get knocked out, Va tech would probably need to lose, OSU win, and then have like 2/3 of voters fill out their ballots 1) Bama; 2) OSU; 3) LSU. That seems pretty ridiculous to me. In fact, I think it is almost unethical for voters to put LSU behind Bama, albeit 2 spots, and don't think many voters would even consider it. Even with a loss LSU would have a better record, better SOS, beat them in Tuscaloosa, won the SECW, and then lost a game that Bama didn't even earn the right to play. If LSU gets destroyed, we'll revisit - but we all know that won't happen.