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Auburn- 4 top ten wins
5 ranked wins
5 wins vs. opponents with 9+ wins
Va. tech- Acc champion (beat Miami), #3 defense in the country, Acc's best passing offense, and averaged 30 points a game before sugar bowl: only scored 13 vs. Auburn.

Ok. - near miss vs. tex A&M (they were stomped 38-7 vs. tenn. in cotton bowl)
- near miss Vs. Ok. st (7-5 final record); they were stomped in their bowl game vs. ohio st. by more than 30 points.
- (if I'm correct) only one or two of their opponents will finish the season ranked; whereas all of the ranked opp. of Auburn will finish ranked.
-only 2 wins vs. opp. with 9+ wins.

I wish the people at the AP would look at this and do the right thing. Please e-mail them if you can and encourage them to fix this travesty and stick the corrupt BC$ in the eye.

I think it would be better to just let Auburn play the orange bowl winner rather that have a split championship. They should at least get the chance to play.
If not, I hope the AP does the right thing a gives them a peice.

If Auburn wanted to lay claim to a piece of the NC, they would have to at least cover the spread on Va Tech. Instead, they barely hung on to win. Va Tech scored lots of points against Duke, W Michigan and Fl A&M. Besides that, they weren't an offensive powerhouse. 13 points would be about right against a defense as good as Auburn. We only put 16 on Miami.

Auburn choked. Bottom line.

The problem with the claim of "4 top ten wins" is the assumption that a team's ranking at the time they played Auburn accurately reflects their ranking at the end of the season. When the final polls come out, Auburn will have likely beaten only one top ten team (Georgia) whereas, for example, OK can claim to have beaten two top five teams (USC and Texas) or USC can claim to have beaten two top ten teams (Cal and OK).

Auburn is a fine time and will likely end up ranked number two in both polls--but there is no way I would put Auburn above an undefeated team that beats the #1 or #2 ranked team in the nation.