our cpu% is way ahead of the Florida and OU.

Computers drop us a little this week, and if OU beats Tech, they jump us there, or at least catch up enough to negate our current advantage. All the while, Tech will stay ahead of us, along with OU, in the human polls, all because voters are idiotic and don’t know how to appropriately vote teams based on what happened. Florida will eventually catch us in both, and probably pass us in both, and if they win out, will be in Miami. Alabama will stay ahead of us if their only loss is to Florida, which sucks.

I hate the BCS.

If OU beats Tech and OSU, Mack brown, Bob Stoops and Mike Leach will all be going to bed the night of November 29th not knowing if they’ll be playing in the following week’s championship game until late in the afternoon on the 30th. Nor will Mizzou (presumably) know who to start prepping for.

4 teams control their destiny right now: Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Florida. Tech had no schedule until their win over Texas and jumped from 10th to 1st in the computer polls. Oklahoma will get a similar bounce IF they win in 2 weeks. Florida has the benefit of playing Alabama to close the year in the SEC title game.

I’m not convinced Texas got any help at all this week even with the Penn State loss as I believe a 12-1 Texas or 12-1 Florida would have passed an undefeated, 12-0, Penn State. An Oklahoma State victory would have been much more valuable.

Obviously we need ou to win against tech, but by how much? I think it needs to be a close game so that ou does not get any more help from the human voters. For us to keep the humans on our side we need to destroy KU at their place and treat the aggies like the hs jv team that they are playing like right now. All in all, i think we are in good shape for the 3 way tie scenario…

The human polls staying consistent are by no means a given, but historically you don’t see teams near the top get jumped when they win, even if teams behind them beat good teams.

You mean Texas Tech jumping ahead of Oklahoma in both the Harris and USA Today polls after Tech beat Texas and Oklahoma torched Nebraska?

Or Florida jumping ahead of USC in the coaches poll after the former beat Georgia and the latter beat UW or WSU (I can’t remember which)?

Or Florida jumping ahead of Oklahoma in the coaches poll this week after beating VANDY and Oklahoma waxed A&M?

Tech wins out.
Florida State beats Florida
Florida beats Alabama

Potential revenge against Tech in the MNC.

Techs toughest two games were at home and they have an off week before their big game at OU…. However, I will say that I’ve been very impressed with their defense, never saw that coming.

…if this thing ends up as a three way tie, it’s still the voters’ responsibility to put the team with the best overall resume into the Big XII title game.

Tech would have one very good win (Oklahoma State) and one excellent win (Texas) with both of those wins coming at home. The loss would be about as acceptable as a loss can be: in Norman, with the nature of the loss TBD. No shame there.

OU would have two very good wins (TCU at home and Oklahoma State on the road) and an excellent win (Tech) at home. The loss is also a very good one: to Texas on a neutral field in a game where the outcome was not decided until the very end of the contest.

Texas would have two very good wins (Oklahoma State and Missouri at home) and an excellent win (Oklahoma on a neutral field). The loss is also a good one: in Lubbock with an almost epic comeback effort that fell just short. I know that this game was not decided on one play, and that a loss is a loss, but there was one very makeable play that Texas did not make that would have surely given them the win.

When all is said and done, I think it’s reasonable to say that Texas will have the best overall resume of the three teams. However, considering the fact that many voters already have OU in front of Texas despite the head to head win by the Horns, the voters probably won’t apply my logic to their November 30th ballots. These next four weeks are gonna be a blast…

if Tech loses to OU, OU loses to OSU, Tech beats/loses to Mizzou (doesnt matter whether Tech wins or loses) in Big 12 championship, will either OU or Tech be ranked higher than us? I think not. Then Florida and Alabama would play each other. Unless USC somehow inexplicably jumps us we’d play Florida/Alabama winner for the national championship. That’s how I see it if the voters doesnt allow Tech to jump up 5 spots after they beat Mizzou. I hope everyone follows my logic.

After all, they have Missouri ahead of Okie State, and that makes sense, right? Uh, forget it.

You know those IQ test ads – the ones that say the average fan of some school has an IQ of 124, can you beat that? I think I just saw one that said the average IQ of Harris and “coaches” poll voters is 52. Can your pet iguana beat that?

and tech gets some with 2 great home wins and they will earn more if they can beat a good team on the road. Then win a conference championship which they have not and one of the major bowl games, again not accomplished. Then come back and be competitive next season and the one after that and on wards for the next few decades. Till then you get what you deserve which is some fleeting attention in the national press for part of a season while your up in the standings for once in a blue moon.