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BCS Doesn’t Suck For SEC, Big 12
Published by MoonDog on November 12, 2008
Pete Carroll and the Trojans need a lot of luck to make the BCS title game
Last week during an interview Southern California head coach Pete Carroll made his feelings regarding the BCS abundantly clear, telling a room full of reporters the system currently used to determine the participants in the national championship game sucks.
While I can sympathize with Carroll to some degree, it sounded more like sour grapes than a valid argument against the BCS system.
I’m not defending the BCS because I happen to agree with Carroll, it does suck. But here lately we’ve heard arguments that simply don’t make any sense.
The BCS doesn’t pair two teams to play in the title game based on well they’ve played lately. That’s essentially what Carroll and others have said is the fundamental problem with the system.
But that’s not true, because anyone following college football knows it doesn’t matter how well you’ve played lately, it’s how well you’ve played the entire season.
Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide are in good shape
USC gave up their chance to appear in Miami when they lost to Oregon State. Granted, USC is playing great football and may possess one of the best defenses since the Steel Curtain.
But because of the relative weakness of the Pac-10, they have little hope of breaking the Big 12-SEC hold on the top of the BCS rankings without a lot of help.
When the latest BCS standings were released Sunday, there weren’t any surprises with three Big 12 and two SEC teams among the top 5.
The Big 12 has been the dominant conference this season and the SEC has continued to play at a high level as well. With Penn State’s loss to Iowa last Saturday, it virtually eliminated any chance of a team from outside the Big 12 or SEC making an appearance in Miami.
Mike Leach has the Red Raiders in position for a BCS title
For USC, Texas and Oklahoma, all they can hope for at this point is a loss by Alabama, Florida and Texas Tech, either in each team’s respective final regular season games or in the conference championship games.
The SEC championship game is already set, with the Crimson Tide facing Florida on December 6 in Atlanta.
The Tide must navigate their way past Mississippi State and Auburn while Florida must defeat South Carolina, The Citadel and in-state rival Florida State to ensure the winner of the SEC championship game will be one of the participants in Miami.
Things are a lot more unsettled in the Big 12, with Texas Tech, Texas and Oklahoma all vying for a shot to represent the Big 12 South against Missouri in the conference title game.
Texas Tech is clearly in the driver’s seat at this point, needing only to defeat Oklahoma on November 22 and Baylor a week later.
Of course, “only” needing to defeat the Sooners in Norman will be a huge task, but the Sooners haven’t shown the ability to stop a good offense, or any offense for that matter. This just in: Texas Tech has a really good offense.
Can Urban Meyer and the Gators win his second BCS title in three years?
But if Oklahoma can take care of business against the Red Raiders, in all likelihood, Texas, Oklahoma and Texas Tech will finish tied atop the Big 12 South standings. If that happens, things get even more interesting.
Normally, ties are broken based upon head-to-head results, but since all of these teams would have gone 1-1 against the others, the tie would then be broken based upon the BCS standings on November 30.
The highest rated team in the BCS standings would win the berth in the Big 12 championship game and more than likely set off another controversy over the BCS system.
Regardless of how things shake out in the Big 12, the chances Texas Tech, Oklahoma or Texas will face either Alabama or Florida in the BCS national championship remain very good.
Meanwhile, the Trojans will be sitting on the outside looking in, hoping all of the one-loss teams ahead of them lose another game. But the pollsters are going to punish USC for their loss to the Beavers, no matter how well they’ve played lately.
As a result, the Trojans aren’t going to jump over any one-loss team currently ahead of them in the BCS standings.
At the end of the day, the Big 12 and SEC deserve to face one another in the BCS title game. It will be a marquee matchup of the two best teams from the two best conferences, and think about this – we won’t have to watch Ohio State get their lunches handed to them again.
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swnole on Wed, 12th Nov 2008 11:01
We always have to be aware of the love affair with USC. Each week they inch a little closer and if there’s even a remote chance to put them in, the pollsters will take advantage of it.
So we’ll see how much the BCS sucks if USC somehow sneaks in.
MoonDog on Wed, 12th Nov 2008 11:05
Hey, USC has to play Stanford this week. Remember what happened last year vs the Cardinal? You never know…
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