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It is what it is. -Mack Brown

So, does the regular season mean all that much? It does not appear that way. The BCS does not seem concerned about the issues raised this season or the bad publicity surrounding the debacle in the Big 12.

It would seem that some people in California are still a little upset about 2004.

The BCS Guru thinks that there is 5% chance OU and Texas could get a rematch. Even ESPN's Tim Griffin acknowledges the possibility. Bob Stoops wasn't quite as intrigued.

And how much bigger would the Texas-Oklahoma rivalry be with national title implications? Particularly after the controversy of the "45-35" campaign by Texas students and the BCS standings that resulted in Oklahoma's Big 12 title game appearance on Sunday.

I think it would be delicious.

But Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said a second game this season wouldn't make the Texas-Oklahoma rivalry much bigger.

"It can't be much more than it is, can it?," Stoops said.

Texas players react to OU's jump in BCS standings and subsequent elevation to the South division title.

"Today was a really tough day, waiting around to find out we didn't make the Big 12 championship game," McCoy said. "That was very disappointing because we had finished the season so strong and done so well against the two teams that are playing in the game."

McCoy and the rest of the Texas team learned their fate late Sunday afternoon from coach Mack Brown. That meeting helped unify the team, McCoy said.

Four Longhorns were named to the All-Big 12 volleyball first team. Michelle Kocher ws named Freshman of the Year. Huge congratulations should go their way.

The No.3 Longhorn volleyball team will host the NCAA regional this weekend. The games will be held at Gregory Gym.

This is just to let Mike Leach know that we here at the 40 Acres also have STUDENT-athletes. In fact, UT led the conference in players named to the Academic All-Big 12 Football Team.

It is good to know the UT Campus Police are hard at work looking for that missing percentage point.

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Photographed by John Biever.

Missouri is a 16 1/2-point underdog to No. 3 Oklahoma in the Big 12 title game, but that does not bother the Tigers at all.

There is little reason for optimism with their recent history against the Sooners, too. Oklahoma beat Missouri 38-17 in last year's Big 12 championship and has won 18 of 19 against the Tigers.

Missouri still seems eager for its shot at the title.

"This is where we wanted to be, and it's finally here," quarterback Chase Daniel said Monday. "There's 10 other teams that would die to be in our spot. We deserve to be here, we won the North, and we're excited about the chance to play."

OU middle linebacker Austin Box is out for the Big 12 championship game against Missouri.

Good news for the Raiders. Michael Crabtree and Graham Harrell will be ready for their bowl game, despite injuries in the Baylor game.

Texas Tech has handled the whole BCS mess well.

Given that they were beaten 65-21 in their last road game at Oklahoma and had to rally to beat Baylor 35-28 on Saturday, Tech players seemed resigned that they didn’t end their campaign for a BCS spot on a strong enough note.

"It’s a great conference," Tech quarterback Graham Harrell said, "and when you have this many great teams in one conference, things like this happen. You come up with three-way ties.

CollegeFootballNews.com believes the Bg 12 conference laid an egg.

The BCS was, simply put, designed to place the nation’s #1 and #2 teams in a particular bowl game to face-off in order to create a "true" National Champion. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s what we have. However, it is very clearly not designed to determine division and conference champions, which is precisely what happened in the Big XII South.

Missouri offensive coordinator Dave Christensen has taken the coaching job at Wyoming.

Our favorite stalwart of college journalism, The Battalion, has a post season report card for the Aggies.

Happy Anniversary, Bob. December 1st was Bob Stoops 10th anniversary as OU's head coach. Should we take up a collection and send flowers? (I once received dead flowers for Valentine's Day. I could look up the name of that florist if anyone is interested.)

And most importantly, Bob feels for Texas and Tech. Thanks. That makes it all okay.

'Round the Blogs

Barking Carnival's CallKevin takes a look at Colt McCoy's body of work at UT. There are some impressive numbers.

The Clone Chronicles takes a look at Coach Gene Chizik's staff shake-up and wraps up the season.

Corn Nation muses about Tennessee's new coach, Lane Kiffin, and his possible staff. Bill Callahan's name has come up. They also seem content with OU's division title.

Most of the Husker fans I’ve talked to are perfectly happy with Oklahoma winning the South. I’m guessing that goes back to all those years of playing Oklahoma as a rival, and blaming Texas for screwing us in the formation of the Big 12 conference, so the general attitude amongst Husker fans is that it’s a good day whenever Texas gets screwed. Agree?

Lots of love Nebrasks'a way, as well.

Crimson and Cream gets ready for the Big 12 title game. Let another Hate Week begin.

Bring On The Cats has the Return of the King.

BCS- Beyond Common Sense

EDSBS' Curiofities and Ruminations does not believe anything was cleared up with OU taking the lead in BCS. Under SEC rules, UT would have won the division title.

(Emphasis ours.) Meaning head-to-head comes back in when the teams are ranked in roughly equivalent standing by the national community, meaning Texas would have gone under SEC rules. Attention, Longhorns: we will happily switch out Vandy for you in God’s Conference, and even give you a five year blind eye toward any major violations.

Don't tempt us, Orson. We just might consider joining God's Conference.

Orson also has a brief note on mental sanity. If you have any left, this a funny read.

On ESPN.com, Brad Edwards writes that polls have gotten out of control.

When the BCS was created many years ago, the polls were supposed to provide a passive element of the overall formula. But as the polls have been given more power, there's been a trend toward voters attempting to serve a very active role as a virtual selection committee.

The BCS has been very, very good to Oklahoma. Sooner fans have nothing to complain about. For the second time in six years, computers have given OU the chance to play for the national championship.

More BCS possible match-ups.

There is actually a human in the BCS office. One lone person.

At one point we believed that offense wins games, but defense wins championships. But then came the BCS.

Other Stuff

Tim Tebow, 2008 Heisman winner?

Tebow seemingly had no chance of repeating as the Heisman recipient a few weeks ago. That's all changed, mostly because Texas Tech's blowout loss to Oklahoma last week ruined Harrell's chance to put a lock on the award.

It leaves open the possibility that three deserving quarterbacks from the same league could take votes from each other. That might allow Tebow to win the statue again if he has a season-defining game today against Florida State or next Saturday in the Southeastern Conference championship game against top-ranked Alabama.

And this guy gets to vote in the Harris Poll? No wonder no one trusts human polls. Dr. Saturday has even better commentary on this moron.

It is bad enough when a player gets arrested and has to miss a game. But when your mascot gets arrested...