Posted on 11/21/2005 12:45:25 PM PST by indcons
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Southern California and Texas remain the top two teams in the BCS standings and only an upset in one of the final two weeks will prevent the two storied programs from meeting in the Rose Bowl on January 4 for the national championship.
The Trojans (11-0) had a close call this past weekend with a 50-42 victory over a tough Fresno State squad, but they'll have this week off before facing city rival UCLA on December 3.
The Longhorns (10-0), meanwhile, had their final bye this past Saturday and will play each of the next two weeks. First up will be the annual showdown with Texas A&M on Friday and then a trip to the Big 12 title game on December 3.
The final BCS standings will be released on December 4.
As of Monday, Southern California is still atop those standings with a BCS average of .9807, down from last week's .9829. Texas, meanwhile, gained some ground and has an average of .9791, up from last week's .9771.
Should one of those teams falter, Penn State, LSU or Virginia Tech would be ready to take a Rose Bowl spot.
Penn State is third in this week's BCS standings with an average of .8900. The Nittany Lions earned a share of the Big Ten title with Ohio State, but will represent the conference in the BCS thanks to a victory over the Buckeyes earlier this season.
LSU is fourth in the BCS and Virginia Tech is fifth. LSU controls its destiny for a berth in the SEC Championship game, while Virginia Tech can do the same in the ACC thanks to Miami-Florida's stunning loss to Georgia Tech this past Saturday.
Miami dropped from third in last week's BCS standings to ninth this week.
If Virginia Tech beats North Carolina this Saturday, the Hokies would play Florida State for the ACC title. An LSU victory over Arkansas this week would put the Tigers into the SEC title game against Georgia.
The champions from the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, Pac-10 and Southeastern Conference make up six of the eight teams in the four BCS games -- the Rose, Orange, Sugar and Fiesta Bowls. The other two spots go to at-large teams.
One of those at-large berths will likely be Notre Dame, which needs only to beat Stanford this coming Saturday to lock up a BCS berth. The Irish, who stand eighth this week in the BCS, would then have the requisite nine wins to qualify for one of the BCS bowl games.
The BCS system uses a pair of human polls -- the Harris Interactive and the USA Today -- as well as six computer rankings. Each poll counts one-third toward the overall score, while the average of the computers completes the formula.
Waiting to see how the BCS will screw this up again.
It can't! If Texas and USC remain undefeated and play in the Rose Bowl, the winner will be the only undefeated team.
GO HORNS!!!!!!!
So they played one hard hitting, fast, skilled team. Good for them. In the SEC you play 5 or 6 such teams. Sometimes you even have to play 2 or 3 of them in succession. Bottom line . . . THE PAC 10 is WEAK. At the very least you punks need to institute a Championship Game. Any League that does not have a Championship Game should be barred from consideration for BCS honors.
I get the feeling that Brady Quinn is going to be hearing the name Tamba Hali or Mike Kudla quite a bit just after New Year's day.....
USC: The Best Sweater Kittens in Football... period.
Could not agree more. Lets both win out and settle it on the field.
You can keep those money grabbing meaningless games for yourself.
Yeah... USC sure got pounded last year in the Orange Bowl by a team that won its Championship Game. Oh, wait... no they didn't... they pounded out over "a half a hundred" points against a team that everyone said "No way will USC score on this team, they play REAL defense, not that PRETEND defense they play in the Pac-10"
there is a lot of those "southern belle" type mixers in those schools where the girls are wearing evening gowns.
I remember visiting friends and going to a Vanderbilt game. There was a bunch of dolled up girls with big hair from the school wearing cocktail dresses at the stadium.
A very interesting list. Notable by its absence is Oregon, which has been in the top 25 probably 10 out of the last 14-15 years. It speaks of good coaching - they're doing it without a lot of NFL quality players.
I do like those USC cheerleaders. They actually still have breasts.
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Amen.
Let me give you a hint: Beat The Hell Out of texas university!
That's a really odd way to figure...but since you did: 9 out of 11 Big 10 teams were in the top 25 at some point.
Even the bottomdwellers in the big 10 didn't lose to a non-conference opponent with a losing record, and only one with a record worse than 7-4.
Speaking of cupcake schedules... Get a load o' this...
The only things standing between Iowa State and an UNDEFEATED schedule thus far:
Considering ISU closes out its season on the road at Kansas, it's even weirder to think how close they were to being undefeated this year.
you forgot Wisconsin :)
And Minnesota too (especially early in the season)
And Iowa....
Madison is a hard place to play on a Saturday night as my Buckeyes have found out.
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