Mike & Mike are usually dunderheads...

...but they did have a pretty decent discussion this morning comparing Texas' and Cincinnati's BCS resumes. Essentially, their conclusion was that Texas is in with a higher BCS ranking because of pre-season polls.

Here's the pre-season Coaches Poll:

USA Today Poll
RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Florida (53) 0-0 1466
2 Texas (4) 0-0 1386
3 Oklahoma (1) 0-0 1358
4 USC (1) 0-0 1321
5 Alabama 0-0 1134
6 Ohio State 0-0 1126
7 Virginia Tech 0-0 1020
8 Penn State 0-0 988
9 LSU 0-0 917
10 Mississippi 0-0 889
11 Oklahoma State 0-0 861
12 California 0-0 711
13 Georgia 0-0 707
14 Oregon 0-0 694
15 Georgia Tech 0-0 559
16 Boise State 0-0 542
17 TCU 0-0 461
18 Utah 0-0 404
19 Florida State 0-0 371
20 North Carolina 0-0 293
21 Iowa 0-0 257
22 Nebraska 0-0 236
23 Notre Dame 0-0 194
24 Brigham Young 0-0 178
25 Oregon State 0-0 165

Cincinnati was No. 29 of you go into the list of "other teams reciving votes."

By week 7, here's the Coaches Poll:

1 Florida (49) 6-0 1464
2 Alabama (9) 7-0 1398
3 Texas (1) 6-0 1386
4 USC 5-1 1237
5 Boise State 6-0 1153
6 Cincinnati 6-0 1104
7 TCU 6-0 1069
8 Iowa 7-0 1037
9 Miami (FL) 5-1 998
10 LSU 5-1 995
11 Penn State 6-1 894
12 Oklahoma State 5-1 795
13 Georgia Tech 6-1 779
14 Oregon 5-1 769
15 Virginia Tech 5-2 672
16 Brigham Young 6-1 577
17 Ohio State 5-2 481
17 Houston 5-1 421
19 Pittsburgh 6-1 328
20 Utah 5-1 300
21 Kansas 5-1 222
22 West Virginia 5-1 188
23 South Carolina 5-2 142
24 Texas Tech 5-2 132
25 Mississippi 4-2 114

And the 1st BCS rankings:

1 Florida 6-0
2 Alabama 7-0
3 Texas 6-0
4 Boise State 6-0
5 Cincinnati 6-0
6 Iowa 7-0
7 USC 5-1
8 TCU 6-0
9 LSU 5-1
10 Miami (FL) 5-1
11 Oregon 5-1
12 Georgia Tech 6-1
13 Penn State 6-1
14 Virginia Tech 5-2
15 Oklahoma State 5-1
16 Brigham Young 6-1
17 Houston 5-1
18 Utah 5-1
19 Ohio State 5-2
20 Pittsburgh 6-1
21 Wisconsin 5-2
22 Arizona 4-2
23 West Virginia 5-1
24 South Carolina 5-2
25 Kansas 5-1

This season, Cincinnati beat three (3) ranked teams, while Texas only beat two (2) ranked teams. Moreover, Cincinnati is actually No. 2 above Texas in the computer polls. It was the "human" polling that killed them (No. 4 in the final Harris and Coaches Polls).

Something to the theory.