Alamo for OSU?
I wrote last night that OSU is Insight Bowl bound. But maybe not. The Big 12 is starting to gurgle for quality bowl teams. Get this. The Big 12 might have only five teams finish the regular season with at least seven wins: Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas and Texas Tech (which is 7-4, with OU remaining). If the Gator Bowl decides to pick a Big 12 team, which it almost surely will, and a second Big 12 team goes to the BCS, which it almost surely will, then the bowls are going to quickly run out of teams.
Fiesta: champion. Sugar or Orange: Kansas with one loss or OU with two. Gator: Texas. Cotton: Missouri, unless the Tigers win the league, then OU or KU.
So then comes the Holiday, and the only 7-win teams left would be Tech or possibly Texas A&M; the Aggies will be 7-5 if they upset Texas. But even if A&M wins, Dennis Franchione is likely to lose his job, and A&M’s bowl status will be murky. So put Tech in the Holiday.
Now comes the Alamo, which would have to take a 7-5 A&M. But if the Aggies lose to Texas, where does the Alamo turn? A bunchy of 6-6 teams likely await. OSU, if it splits with Baylor and OU. A&M. The Nebraska-Colorado winner. Kansas State, if the Wildcats split with Missouri and Fresno State. OSU clearly is the best choice.
So it comes to this. OSU to the Alamo Bowl if three things happen: 1. A&M loses to Texas; 2. the Big 12 gets in two teams to the BCS; 3. the Gator decides to take a Big 12 team this year. If the Gator passes on the Big 12, the Sun pops in, and the Sun likely would take OSU.
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Berry, where do you see oSu going if they win out? Would the Big 12 get only one BCS (Fiesta) in that scenario if OU won the Big 12? Where would KU, MU, and TU go in that scenario? You would then have aTm, tech and oSu with 7-5 records, right?