Coaches poll: OU ahead of Texas
The BCS isn’t out yet, but the coaches poll is out, and OU is ahead of Texas, just like last week. Last week, OU was fourth and Texas seventh in the coaches poll, but UT was fourth and OU sixth in the BCS rankings.
This week, OU is fourth and Texas fifth in the coaches poll. If the Sooners somehow pass Texas this week or next week, no way can the Longhorns pass OU if the Sooners win out. OU will have high-profile games remaining against Texas Tech and OSU, giving OU the advantage should it finish in a three-way tie with Tech and Texas for the Big 12 South title.
If Texas can stay ahead of OU, the BCS rankings could get interesting the last two weeks.
Berry Tramel can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter @BerryTramel.
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I left one thing out from my previous statement . — If OU beats TT they will fall below both Texas and OU. Thus my statement that in a 3 way tie Texas should obviously be above OU.
David – Barry is sore that Texas spanked ou, so don’t bother with him… This is why we need a playoff. mobile u hasn’t played anyone since Texas spanked them…
David and J – It is possible for OU to be ranked ahead of Texas at the end of the regular season. As far as Texas being ranked higher than OU if OU beats both TT and OSU, just look at OSU’s ranking below Missouri, a team that OSU beat. Who can figure what those will do that comprise the BCS rankings?
I agree with J. A four team playoff or an eight team playoff. I’m not very interested in seeing more than eight. The ‘Mad Scientist’ says a sixty-four playoff would be OK.
Berrry is right; Sooners will win the BCS points if they win out. You get huge points for defeating the no. 2 team, not to speak of OSU. But it is all a big “if” at this point.
Playoffs? PLEEEEEZ….you get football after football game in December after a long season. And, forget the regular season, where everyone will carefully pile up 1AA team opposition. It would be a pity. The national champion has always been a disputed affair, long before BCS. And playoffs don’t guarantee a great finale anyway. And the academics. Don’t forget George Cross’s famous comment to a skeptical Legislature: “I’m just trying to build a school the football team will be proud of.”
Okay…….I’m confused…………why is it that everyone thinks it’s a problem if OU is ranked ahead of TX in a 3-way tie between OU, TX and TT, but no one seems upset that TX would then be ranked ahead of TT. If I remember correctly, TT beat TX. I know that TX fans argue that it took a last second play to TT to beat TX, but as I remember the game, TT dominated TX most of the way and TX was lucky to stay in the game……this is why head-to-head does not count in such a 3-way tie situation…………….
David and J don’t seem to grasp the way the Big XII Championship game works. If OU, Texas and Tech all end the season with one loss, it is a three way tie: OU loss to TX, Tx loss to TT, TT loss to OU. According to Big XII rules, not some kind of homerism on Berry’s part, the tie breaker is by who is ahead in the BCS. The BCS is affected by human polls, and those humans won’t care that Texas lost to Tech on Tech’s field, all they’ll see is that OU beat the #2 team in the nation, and then followed it up with another win over a top 15-20 team the next week (OSU). What’s the remaining schedule for Texas? Kansas and A&M. Those games are going to hurt Texas in both strength of schedule with the computer polls, and with late season big wins in the eyes of the fickle human voters. I realize you both struggle with words with more than 1 syllable, but grab the dictionary and work through it, geniuses.
Mike:
It takes a 1 cell brain to think you are the only one who understands the rules for the Big XII Championship game. Texas, by beating Missouri, wins against more highly ranked teams than OU or Tech . I will agree with one thing you say —- the human voters are fickle. Explain to me, in one syllable words of course, how OU is ranked above UT in the Coaches Poll before they have played TT or OSU and also lost to UT. By the way, if you can explain it with validity, then I will consider you a true GENIUS. It is this kind of logic that makes me worry that UT is in real trouble if it winds up in a 3 way tie. Lastly, it is true that if a team loses a game in a situation like this you run the risk of being cut out.
Mr Tramel,
Excuse me but if Texas and Oklahoma win out it would appear to me they have played the same high profile games Oklahoma did. Thus in a 2 way or 3 way tie, help me out here. Texas vs Oklahoma? Texas won going away. TT beat Texas due to Mack Brown and his normal tactical brillance. With the game clock running there were 29, 17,7,21 seconds remaining on the play clock at the snap and thus leaving TT 1:29. I am afraid your OU leanings have badly affected your logic.
David