Shouldn't Texas be ranked ahead of Oklahoma?

November 23, 2008

So every college football fan out there knows that Texas will win the national championship this year. This team is better than the 2005 championship team. Colt McCoy will win the Heisman that Vince Young SHOULD HAVE won in 2005.

Well, actually Texas might not win the national title this year, BECAUSE they might not even get into the national championship game. It's BS man, if we had a playoff system in college football (as Barack Obama has advocated) then Texas would undoubted win the championship. I guarantee that my Longhorns can take down Florida, Alabama, USC, all of those powerhouses and definitely Oklahoma.

I think it's ridiculous that Oklahoma has a better chance to get into the title game than Texas. Yes, it's the biggest rivalry in all of sports history that Texas and Oklahoma have against each other, but because Texas lost to Texas Tech and Oklahoma beat Texas Tech, but Texas beat Oklahoma, the Big 12 South division is in a huge flux while the Big 12 North has already been clinched by Missouri, a team that Oklahoma did not play, and a team that Texas smashed 56-35.

The national championship game will include the winner of the SEC, which has to be Florida because they WILL beat No.1 Alabama in the SEC Championship game, and the winner of the Big 12 ASSUMING that it will not be Missouri and it will be either Oklahoma or Texas. IF Missouri were to somehow pull of a huge upset and win the Big 12 Conference, THEN you would have to look at USC with a legitimate shot to get into the title game.

So here's the thing. In the event of this 3-way tie in the Big 12 South division, to play Missouri, the winner of the North division in the Conference Championship game, the winner of the south would be determined by the BCS standings, the highest ranked team will play for the conference title against Mizzou.

BUT let's not forget, the season isn't over yet. TEXAS still has to take care of business and beat Texas A&M on Thanksgiving night. The curse of Thursday night is still on where every ranked team that plays on a Thursday night loses. Well my No. 3 ranked Longhorns NEED to break this 2 and a half year long curse. THEN all of Longhorn nation WILL HAVE TO AGAIN GO AGAINST OUR CODE AND ROOT FOR OKLAHOMA. We cannot hate Oklahoma. We rooted for them last night against Texas Tech, them beating Tech brought this 3-way tie thus giving Texas hope.

For the 3-way tie to still be in effect at the end of the regular season...
Texas HAS to beat Texas A&M on Thanksgiving night.
Oklahoma HAS to beat Oklahoma State in Stillwater on PRIMETIME on ABC next Saturday
AND
Texas Tech HAS to beat Baylor next Saturday.

THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN FOR TEXAS IS THAT TEXAS TECH LOSES...
That will make it a 2-team tie between Texas and Oklahoma and because Texas won the head-to-head matchup, they are the winner.

THE ABSOLUTE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN FOR TEXAS IS THAT OKLAHOMA LOSES...
That will make it a 2-team tie between Texas and Texas Tech. Texas Tech won the head-to-head in Lubbock on Michael Crabtree's last second catch BUT Texas should have won that game, but the only thing that matters is that 1 in the loss column.


IF THE 3-WAY TIE COMES DOWN TO THE BCS, AFTER ALL THREE TEAMS WIN OUT THIS WEEK, THE CASE WILL BE BETWEEN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS. Texas Tech would pretty much be out of the discussion because of their humiliating defeat to Oklahoma.

THIS IS WHY TEXAS SHOULD BE RANKED AHEAD OF OKLAHOMA. ALL VOTERS MUST PAY ATTENTION TO THESE FACTS...
1). Texas beat Oklahoma 45-35.
2). Texas was ranked #1 for 4 weeks while Oklahoma was #1 for one week and lost to Texas as the #1 team.
3). Texas's schedule was much tougher as they went through a 4 week gauntlet against 4 straight Top 12 Opponents and only one time in history (Notre Dame 60 years ago) has ever beaten 4 straight Top 12 teams. Texas in this 4-game stretch beat #1 Oklahoma, #12 Missouri, #8 Oklahoma State, until ending it with a loss on the road to #7 Texas Tech.
4). Yes, Oklahoma beat Texas Tech. Yes, Texas Tech beat Oklahoma. BUT here's the most important aspect of it. Oklahoma beat Texas Tech AT HOME. Texas lost to Texas Tech on the road at Tech's home field. If that game is played in Austin, Texas wins, no doubt. BUT here's the thing, Colt McCoy drove Texas back in the game to take the 33-32 lead with one minute left in the game in Lubbock. Then on Texas Tech's last drive, IF Texas freshman safety BLAKE GIDEON DOES NOT DROP THAT INTERCEPTION LOFTED IN THE AIR, then it's game over right there with 6 seconds left, Texas wins and they're still undefeated to this day. But it was just a freshman mistake that cost the team and on the very next play Graham Harrell connected with Michael Crabtree for the game winning touchdown to down my Then-No. 1 Longhorns. It's not the score of the game tho that should influence these voters, it's how the game was played. The voters NEED to see that Texas wins that game if not for a freshman miscue and they'd still be undefeated and still would be Number 1 in the country.

One more thing, Florida should not be ranked ahead of Texas because they lost to an UNRANKED OLE MISS Team AT HOME IN THE SWAMP. That's inexcusable. No matter, how well the Gators are playing now, the past matters just as much as today does.

So if Texas does not get into the national championship game, there will be a riot, there will be a louder cry for playoffs, and there will be tons of mail on Barack Obama's desk pleading for an executive order, and there will be tons of death threats on the table of the BCS Committee and the voters, don't forget the voters who control the destiny of every team at the end of the season, they will forever live with the guilt because inside they know Texas is the true national champion.

The flaws of a 'precise' system

October 19, 2008

The BCS is intriguing, yes, because every regular season game matters. You lose one regular season game, and your hopes of a national championship are, for the most part, gone. But it's that kind of crap that leaves doubt in the minds of every fan about the legitimacy of every national champion we see in college football.

The first release of the 2008 BCS Poll
The only one that matters.
(team's conference)
1. Texas (Big 12)
2. Alabama (SEC)
3. Penn State (Big Ten)
4. Oklahoma (Big 12)
5. USC (Pac-10)
6. Oklahoma State (Big 12)
7. Georgia (SEC)
8. Texas Tech (Big 12)
9. Ohio State (Big Ten)
10. Florida (SEC)
11. Utah (MWC)
12. Boise State (WAC)
13. LSU (SEC)
14. Texas Chrstian (MWC)
15. Missouri (Big 12)
16. South Florida (Big East)
17. Pittsburgh (Big East)
18. Georgia Tech (ACC)
19. Tulsa (C-USA)
20. Ball State (MAC)
21. Brigham Young (MWC)
22. Northwestern (Big Ten)
23. Kansas (Big 12)
24. Minnesota (Big Ten)
25. Florida State (ACC)

Reaction: What more can we say but continue to say time and time again that the system is flawed? What better determines who should be the national champion than a playoff system? Give the teams their respective chance to show what they're worth. Don't rely on this bullshit computer system. I know you'll say the system is very complicated and very precise, but you always leave out one thing, flawed. A computer breaks down all the numbers of who's the best team in the country? Ok, but numbers don't mean anything. Anybody can beat anybody on any given day. So maybe, that's why we use this system of the BCS #1 vs. #2 for the national championship, because the system wants to guarantee that the #1 ranked team has a chance of playing for the title and does not want it to lose in a playoff system before the title game. Makes sense, right? Not really, considering the #1 team hasn't won the championship the past three years. In 2005, #2 Texas took care of business against #1 USC. And the past two years we've seen #1 Ohio State get blown out by the #2 team. So if every year the #2 is better than the #1, how far down should the #1 be? Could they be beat by #3, #4, or #5? What about even #12? Any team can lose or win on any given day. The team that plays the best when it matters, in the postseason, has the right to win a national championship.

So here's the playoff system that's being called for: It will the be Top 12 BCS teams. The Top 4 will have a bye week as the lower 8 will play an elimination game. Then those 4 winners will play the Top 4 teams, leading to a legitimate Final Four and a more definitive championship game.