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How It Plays Out
Posted by Scipio Tex on November 22nd, 2008 under Football
Well, that was interesting.
And not necessarily bad. OU’s destruction of Tech effectively removes the Raiders from the MNC picture entirely.
Yep, even a Texas Tech Big 12 Champion.
I’m going to assume a Texas win in Austin over A&M. The quality of that win has implications and Mack needs to be cognizant of that fact.
Tech over Baylor
OU over OSU
If Oklahoma blows out Oklahoma State in Stillwater and we dick around with A&M, the head-to-head win will be thrown out of the window and Oklahoma will advance to the title game. Spare me your counterarguments – it’s just how people think. We’d deserve it for having the killer instinct of a golden retriever. If we humiliate A&M and OU wins in a close game, it’s all about popularity, perception, and our contention that the game in Dallas trumps OU’s sexy hotness. Yeah, they got a tit job and they’ve been doing microderm abrasion but they’re still the same team we broke up with in Dallas.
Tech over Baylor
OSU over OU
Tech advances to the Big 12 title game where they face a 50-50 proposition against Mizzou though my instinct screams Raider choke job. Even if Tech wins, they’re so badly marred by the OU whipping that the computers will treat them like a virus and the pollsters will treat them like cowpox. Texas likely plays the Florida/Bama winner for the marbles.
Baylor over Tech
Who cares about OU/OSU
We advance to the title game. If Baylor wins I will post a psalm on Barking Carnival every day for a week. This would prove that their God is strong and I would eschew my strict Black Muslim beliefs and go Baptist. Could it happen? It’s very unlikely, but it could. Tech would have to turn in on itself and explode like a collapsing dusty star.
Other wackiness:
FSU over Florida.
Florida over Bama
Throw that scenario on top of the aforementioned and you end up with MNC insanity as varied as Texas vs OU, OU vs USC, and possibly even a crazy human voter push for an undefeated Utah.
What is clear is that we’re assured of a BCS bowl. This Is A Good Thing.
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Lapu-Lapu said:
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Go Baylor!
Hook’Em
Crown & Coke said:
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Regardless of who ‘wins’ the South, if both OU and Texas win out then I am 99% percent certain that we are looking at Red River re-match for the MNC in the event that Florida loses to the Noles but then beats Alabama.
Even if the human voters listed USC and Penn State 1 and 2 respectively, it wouldn’t be enough to counteract their hideous computer rankings
CrazyJoeDavola said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:35 am
“If Oklahoma blows out Oklahoma State in Stillwater and we dick around with A&M, the head-to-head win will be thrown out of the window and Oklahoma will advance to the title game.”
If you reverse the streams, and have OU dicking around with OSU and us blowing out A&M, it won’t matter. OU passed us tonight.
beowulf said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:47 am
So far so good. If the Horns come in today #2 and OU #4 in the CS, the most likely scenario, there is no reason to be negative about our NCG in Miami chances.
College Football 2008 through games of 2008 November 22 Saturday the BCS uses the ELO_CHESS from here
HOME ADVANTAGE= 2.75 RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | ELO_CHESS | PREDICTOR
1 Texas A = 94.60 10 1 75.59( 5) 1 1 | 3 1 | 93.53 1 | 95.28 4
2 Oklahoma A = 93.71 10 1 72.73( 26) 2 1 | 4 1 | 92.32 4 | 94.80 5
3 Florida A = 91.44 10 1 72.40( 31) 0 0 | 2 1 | 86.93 7 | 99.59 2
4 Texas Tech A = 91.04 10 1 73.28( 19) 1 1 | 3 1 | 92.59 2 | 89.35 6
5 Southern California A = 90.66 9 1 72.47( 30) 1 0 | 2 1 | 85.84 10 | 99.96 1
6 Alabama A = 90.35 11 0 69.29( 65) 0 0 | 3 0 | 92.38 3 | 88.34 8
7 Penn State A = 89.89 11 1 70.39( 52) 1 0 | 3 1 | 86.09 8 | 95.35 3
8 Utah A = 86.99 12 0 68.52( 73) 1 0 | 3 0 | 90.45 5 | 84.08 14
9 TCU A = 86.52 10 2 67.69( 80) 0 2 | 1 2 | 85.06 11 | 87.65 11
10 Ohio State A = 86.37 10 2 71.67( 40) 0 2 | 1 2 | 84.35 13 | 88.26 9
RansomStoddard said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:30 am
We need to beat the crap out of aggy. Someone send Greg Davis some tickets to Europe and let Major and Colt call the plays.
WWGDD said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 6:02 am
Make sure the tickets are to his liking though:
Austin laterally to Houston.
North to Texarkana.
North again to Little Rock.
Surprise them w/ going north again and not directly towards Europe w/ another dink flight to St. Louis.
Now trick it up a bit and go north again to Lansing.
Now, yep, now really trick it up and head back south to Little Rock again. Lots of mileage but still not any closer to the goal.
At some point Major gets nervous as he hears of GD’s plan of flight. Worried GD may make it back to Austin before Europe. Major says “fuck it. I need to get this guy to Europe and although it will amaze some, I am creative and know how to get a direct flight out of LR and to Europe.”
AA Operator: “Sure thing Major, AA is so advanced these days and has recruited the best system to fly cross country, this won’t be a problem. Why was he flying north and south instead of heading directly East to Europe?”
Davis arrives and is happy to be in Europe, but not happy w/ the way they got there.
DrkBgrk said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 6:35 am
i’ll be pleasantly surprised if ou doesn’t pass texas. i might not have had enough faith in the computers’ ability to remember a head-to-head result when comparing ut and ou, but it never seemed probable that ou stays behind texas with ut’s recent loss and ou’s probable wins. i think i have an exactly appropriate amount of faith in the human voters putting texas above ou.
The 2007 LSU Team said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 6:37 am
Don’t worry folks, crazy shit is going to happen! Count on it!
Gene Claude said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:43 am
Scip, I don’t believe you are assured of a BCS game. If UT emerges from a three way tie of 1 loss south teams, but loses in the championship to Mizzou, OU would go before you, I imagine. Not likely, obviously.
We’ve done some looking at the chance that OU passes UT. We think it is unlikely that OU gains enough in the computers, but the humanoids are another story. I think it is 75/25 that OU hops you guys.
someone said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
d they jumped us in the ap
someone said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 am
coaches poll sucks some ass too
Spring Branch Horn said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
Beat the aggies!!!
Nothing else matters!!
sooner tim said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
OU 2 in coaches, UT 4
Scipio Tex said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
Ah, we are fucked.
Dunstan Pearl said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 am
Any chance we’ll be far enough ahead in the computers to cancel out their human poll lead? We’ll need the Harris to be closer than the Coaches.
This fucking sucks.
beowulf said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
We aren’t fucked. Still projected to be #2 in the weekly BCS Poll.
Computers aren’t fucking idiots ignoring our 45-35 4th quarter beatdown of OU.
ChrisApplewhite said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
But assuming OU is 4 in most computer polls, they will probably jump to 3 after UF and Bama play each other in their CCG. That might be an issue.
We really just need an upset somewhere.
anonymous said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Fraid not, beowulf. OU gets to plays at number 12 OSU next week in prime time. Another huge nationally televised game against a highly ranked opponent. Obviously, if they lose this whole bcs conudrum vis a vis them is moot. But if they win that game, they will gain points in both the computers and the human polls.
And, as an added kick in the nuts, the fact that it is a late game means that Tech will still have something to play for when they take the field against Baylor, extinguishing any real hope on that front. Our hopes now lie with OSU or FSU. I’m afraid we are screwed in the BCS otherwise.
Aggie Lurking said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Harris poll is out and the land thieves are ahead of you. It just points out that you can never play down the effect of the November games. Right or wrong (in this case wrong) they leave more of an impact on voters.
Moral of the twisted story- Never pull for your rival even if their success “helps” you out. It always comes back to bite you in the ass.
Have mercy on us Thursday ’cause it won’t help change this one iota.Your only hope is for Baylor and Okie Light to both win (about a 1 in 20 chance I’d say)
bat said:
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
There is still a significant lead in the computers. OU will have to make up significant ground. They will have to win, impressively, and swing the voters too stubborn to move them after beating the BCS number 2 by half a hundred.
It’s too early for the hand wringing. This one is too close to call.
Tim's Bleeding Vagina said:
November 24th, 2008 at 7:19 am
the coaches will all be home on turkey day watching us beat down aggy. they will be out coaching on saturday and miss the ou game. a beat down of aggy coupled with ou struggling against osu may reverse quite a bit of that damage in the coaches poll.
dasmithjones said:
November 26th, 2008 at 11:48 am
One more thing that is verified about our running game from OU65-TT21: We have the people to run, we don’t have the scheme to run.