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.
The teams in a conference can only win half their games overall. Even the botton of the Big Ten won the majority of their non-conference games. Between the 11 teams, the entire conference lost only 6 games. Only three games to teams not in the top 10.
possibly....
Depends on how well UGA's offense is playing that day
I wish he had saved one of those misses for Georgia.
The PAC-10 sucked this year. End of story. Wasn't hard for Oregon and UCLA to have the records they did this year.
U of W is a total trainwreck.
Washington St and Arizona St stunk up the joint as well.
Besides Oregon and UCLA, USC had nothing to be challenged on in thier conference.
I give USC credit for how they played that game against Notre Dame. Was one of the best college football games this year.
But I think Texas will kill them at the bowl game.
Geeeeeeee...Ohio state seems to be pretty good this year, I think I remember them getting beat...methinks I do.
I'm not putting a whole lot of effort into this. The year Osborne reinstated Phillips after hitting his girlfriend, weren't Damon Benning and James Sims also arrested for domestic abuse, wasn't Riley Washington charged with attempted second-degree murder, and wasn't Tyrone Williams charged with firing shots into an occupied car?
"Then was beaten in its bowl game" -- Nebraska's record in its last 15 Bowl games as a Big 8 team was 5 and 10, wasn't it? Trying to find the figures, but weren't 8 of those 10 losses to teams with worse rankings in the AP?
Nebraska was a very,very good football program in a conference that was sometimes a two-program conference (although both very good program), and sometimes only a one-program conference, otherwise filled with very, very, very mediocre teams at best. It never had to prove itself five or six times a year against very good opponents. It never had to play teams with the speed of a Miami, FSU, or PAC 10 team until a bowl game (and then we all know what generally happened, until the criminals hit the field).
For the past 25 year, Nebraska can't win its bowl games with the regularity a good team should. A great state. A great university. 99+% of the kids on the teams over the last twenty years are probably the salt of the earth. It has a great program. It just gets overrated because people consider its regular season romps against Our Lady of the Cornfield instead of looking at its record against ranked opponents and bowl game opponents.
they beat Ohio State, Ohio STate is the match of any team in the SEC, especially in Columbus....
Auburn's year was last year. LSU lost to a crappy UT team, but even without that loss, I couldn't put them ahead of either USC or UT
Are you kidding me??? Those numbers are insane. The one that jumps out at me is the 513 all purpose yards, this from a guy who doesn't have the ball in his hand every play like Vince Young.
yeah....
but probably not their 4th NC.
I don't think they would have been able to surpass Ohio State or Miami in the BcS that year.
Sure he did. You guys just didnt hear about it over there on the east coast. He said he would be more than willing to play if the NCAA would allow it.
Reggie Bush is a pure stud. There is no denying that.
And I'm NOT a USC fan.
That guy is ridiculous.
Since we are talking football on a conservative forum, I felt it necessary to point out the vast number of liberal douchebags that graduate from Austin. I will take a 5-6 football team along with my conservative campus with a military tradition over an 12-0 football team and a faculty and student body overrun with Anti-American, Anti-Family, Pro-Gay, Socialist, John Kerry supporting, Anti-Prop 2, liberal a-holes.
I can't wait until Friday.
Cop out! ;-)
I need to bump for later refutal or acknowledgement.
I forgot to mention that after the Big 12 championship, we'll be concentrating on the #2 ranked Longhorn basketball team. It will be quite nice to be the first college in history to win all three major sports championships (The baseball trophy is already in the case).
LOL!!
UT is a big school...yes, there are those organizations...but there are also many, many, conservative orgs too (and Professors). (And I am not just talking about the college republicans)
Yes...we'll see what happens on Friday. I hear you guys are teaching revely to catch, if not, might be a good idea.
USC is good because of TWO guys.
Leinhart and Bush.
Without those two, they MIGHT be ranked 15 or 16.
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