Grumpelstiltskin Votes In The Blog Poll

Almost. Still optimistic but I’m keeping things in perspective. Texas has done more than enough to be in the big dance versus Florida or Bama yet all we hear is “yeah, but.” They beat OU? Yeah, but. They have the best record in the nation among ranked teams in terms of strength of schedule? Yeah, but. They lost on the road in the final second of the game? Yeah, but. This is like a job interview that gets turned into a popularity contest. “The brunette has a better resume but did you see what the blonde was wearing? Wow. She’s got my vote!”

So I’ll be rooting for my horns as they hopefully utterly humiliate the aggies while I munch on turkey and I’ll be praying that Baylor upsets Tech with a last second field goal kick. I don’t want to deal with more voter bs of seeing someone like John Hunt rate Texas as 7th in the country despite the great games Colt and crew have given us. I’m ready for a BCS bowl game with a win over aTm. Will it be for the national title? Maybe, maybe not. But it will be a BCS game and I’m ok with that.

The polls are a “what have you done lately” proposition. They have been for the the 40+ years I have been following college football. It’s fair if that’s not your ox that is getting gored. The fact remains that of the three (OU, Texas, and TT) OU had the earliest loss. That may put us in the Fiesta or Sugar but will we have the consolation of watching Big Game Bob lose to Florida. We still end up ahead of them in the final poll where we belong.

Besides maybe Missouri will be able to pull it off. Wouldn’t that be a laugh.

I’ve been watching espn and listen to espn radio all week, and I haven’t heard one person say ou should jump Texas. I can’t see how somebody can justify doing it. I hope Mack is right when he said people just voted off of emotions this week, and hope they wake up after this week.

Stoops obviously has more coaches that are his buddies around the country than Mack, and that definitly doesn’t help matters (Pelini,Leach,Mangino,etc.)

If the BCS wants some credibility, they better not screw Texas this year.

Because of the national championship implications I think everyone has lost focus of the fact that the current argument between Texas and OU is about who should have a shot at playing in the Big 12 Championship game. If you take the MNC game out of the conversation the picture becomes musch clearer. Lets assume that Texas, TT, and OU all win this week. The question becomes “who should have a chance of playing for the big twelve championship?” Lets examine the teams. TT: two quality wins on home field, blowout loss to OU on Road. Texas: Three top 11 wins including Oklahoma on neutral ground and Big 12 North Cahmpion, one road loss in last second to TT. OU: two quality non conference wins two quality conference wins, 1 home, 1 road, and neutral field loss to Texas. I think the whole country agrees that TT blow out loss has exposed them to be a tier below Texas and OU, but it is very difficult to determine who is the better b/n Texas and OU; however it should be clear which of the two should get a chance at the Big 12 title. If OU goes to the Big 12 title game then OU or Missouri will end up Big 12 Champion with Texas on the outs. Please have all the coaches and Harris votes ask themselves, is it right that Texas will be left out of Big 12 championship consideration while two teams with equal or lessor records than Texas which Texas has defeated play for the League title? This question has only one possible answer. HOOKEM!!!

BON bloggers, please call up your ESPN buddies and get them making this argument.

PB,

I think the poll is solid — and understand the “obligation” to keep Alabama in the top spot even if their best win is over a team you rank 13 (as contrasted with Texas having 3 wins over teams in the Top 11) and they will be at least 7 point underdogs to Florida.

My one change would be Penn St. over USC. Penn St beat a better OSU team than did USC, and Penn St throttled the team that beat USC.

I hate the BCS more than I did the year before…

I just can’t wrap my mind around the fact that we may have to sit at home and watch two teams that we beat by double figures play for the conference championship.

If that happens, I say we put out a meme that the champ has an asterisk. If OU wins it, they’ll have to be referred to as “The Paper Champions”.

And btw – if all this evil comes to pass, I want an abject apology from anyone who’s ever argued against a playoff and thrown out the “it would devalue the regular season” card or the “a playoff wouldn’t give you the ‘best’ team, only the one who’s hottest at the end of the season” card.

Evidently, you get the same negatives with a ‘beauty contest’ approach without any of the positives… Plus, playoff proponents will have the WMD argument-ender the next time this timeless thread starts up again: “Oh yeah, well, you love the Sooners!!!”

why would you pick USC? their only “true” common opponent was Oregon State and PSU blew them out. Ohio state had a very green Pryor and no Wells on the road at USC. just curious.