Texas' BCS Title Chances

by Top Jimmy on Nov 3, 2006 12:40 PM CST Comment 10 comments

Bruce Feldman, ESPN The Magazine college football writer had this to say when asked what Texas needs to happen to make the BCS Championship game:

Bruce Feldman: (1:18 PM ET ) OK, OSU has to whip Michigan. UF, Tenn and Auburn need to all lose once and Rutgers beat L'ville and then lose to Pitt or WVU. Also itd be nice if A&M won all its games before UT smashed them. Now I doubt an unbeaten Rutgers would be ahead of UT and I'm not sure if Auburn or Tenn would either but it would help them if they werent in the mix.

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Seems about right

Still a lot that's gotta happen.

The other thing that probably needs to happen is the Horns need to absolutely murder everyone they play. To emerge atop the one-loss scram, Texas needs to jump up to #2 in the human polls. That won't happen if we dance with danger every game.

by Peter Bean on Nov 3, 2006 12:44 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Too conservative

UM will not get the rematch. They will not have a championship replay a game that just happened and people do not want two teams from the same conference playing for the championship.
I dont think Tenn, Auburn or Rutgers can make the jump.
so we need OSU to win out and UF and UL to lose one. Not that improbable.

by Wells on Nov 3, 2006 12:51 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I agree

We're 4th in the human polls and with a UL loss and Michigan loss, we move up to 2nd (which is 2/3 of the BCS). If our SOS makes any kind of jump at all in the last two weeks we could be fine. The only thing you left out was the Pac-10, which is what could prove to be our undoing. Cal is getting a lot of respect right now, and if SC beats them and then Notre Dame, we're finished. Even if Cal wins out, I think we might have problems.

by BrooklynHorn on Nov 3, 2006 3:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

ummm

So if USC wins out they don't jump Texas? Much as I think Texas is the better team, I think USC would make the jump.

by rom on Nov 3, 2006 2:59 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Forgot about them

I am just assuming they don't win out. What about ND? If they win out there will be a lot of golden domers screaming that they deserve it.

by Wells on Nov 3, 2006 3:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Remaining Games

If we don't kick butt the rest of the way it won't matter.

Just Remember, No Matter What Happens, ou SUCKS.

by ouALWAYSsux on Nov 3, 2006 3:51 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Still gotta win

As it's already been said, we still have to win the rest of our games or all of this doesn't even matter.

I think USC could jump us if they win out, but I don't see that happening--I think they'll drop at least one more game, hopefully against Oregon (at which point we would then want them to win the rest of their games).

Also, I think we should pull for Arkansas to make it to the SEC championship over Auburn--I can't see a team making it to the national title game if they can't even make it to they're own conference title game. Here's a question though: what if Arkansas wins out and beats Florida in the SEC championship? Do they have a legitimate argument to play for the national title?

Hook'em, bitches.

by Ramzlita on Nov 3, 2006 5:50 PM CST reply actions 0 recs