Oklahoma vs. Texas: The Future Of Fuck

Anyways,  The BCS Polls came out yesterday evening and Texas fans are pissed the fuck off. There’s still a ray of hope though — I think. I’m not certain about one thing, and would like an answer: Can two teams from the same conference play each other for the National Title?

Extended computer rankings
Team	AH	RB	CM	KM	JS	PW
1. Alabama	25	25	23	21	22	22
2. Oklahoma	22	24	24	25	25	25
3. Texas	23	22	25	23	24	24
4. Florida	20	23	22	20	20	19
5. Southern California	17	21	19	19	18	17

The tie breaker in the Big 12 when three teams are tied is the final BCS standings. Oklahoma gets to face Missouri, and is pretty much guaranteed a shot in the Championship game.

But what about Alabama? Alabama is currently between 10 and 13 point underdogs against Florida at a neutral site, the Dog Fight Dome. So its not that far fetched to assume Florida is going to  take this game. Which would more than likely screw with the computers, and coaches.

The six computers that use the maths! to figure out the rankings ranked Oklahoma above Texas, regardless of Texas’ victory over Oklahoma, due to strength of schedule. Texas’ schedule cannot compare to Oklahoma and with Missouri’s loss against Kansas, it sinks lower.

Florida’s schedule is also pretty weak. Their key win against Georgia, doesn’t look that great now that Georgia lost to Georgia Tech. That leaves presumably Alabama, Florida State, and LSU.  Florida’s schedule was pretty much a cake walk.

So will a Florida win vault them up to number two in the nation, and in to the BCS Championship?

If you rely solely on the computers, then…. NO!

Check out http://www.colleyrankings.com/playgod.html

Everyone gives the BCS computer system a lot of shit but it could be the COACHES, and HARRIS Poles that really screw over Texas.

Even with a win over Alabama, Florida’s strength of schedule remains Lower than Texas’.  Here are the full Computer rankings, and SOS formulas.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt08.htm

HOME ADVANTAGE=  2.83           RATING    W   L  SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 |  ELO_CHESS   |  PREDICTOR  
   1  Oklahoma             A  =  94.92   11   1   74.23(  17)    2   1  |    5   1  |   93.94    1 |   95.50    3
   2  Texas                A  =  94.61   11   1   74.63(  12)    1   1  |    3   1  |   93.50    2 |   95.32    4
   3  Florida              A  =  91.94   11   1   72.91(  28)    0   0  |    2   1  |   87.42    6 |  100.35    2
   4  Southern California  A  =  90.73   10   1   72.52(  33)    1   0  |    3   1  |   85.80    8 |  100.73    1

Poll Two http://andersonsports.com/football/ACF_frnk.html

		Rating	W	L	Sched. Strength	Sched. Rank	vs. Current Top-10	vs. Current #11-25	Other Losses
1.	Alabama	.811	12	0	.517	54	0-0	1-0	0
2.	Utah	.805	12	0	.508	61	0-0	2-0	0
3.	Texas	.800	11	1	.571	5	1-1	2-0	0
4.	Oklahoma	.798	11	1	.568	7	1-1	4-0	0
5.	Texas Tech	.787	11	1	.552	22	1-1	2-0	0
6.	Florida	.784	11	1	.547	25	0-0	2-0	1

Poll 3: http://www.cfrc.com/Ratings_2008/WK_14.htm

Rk	Team	W	L			Result			Opponent			Last Wk	This Wk
1	Alabama	12	0	Then #	1	Beat	Then #	53	Auburn	36	0	320.349	325.926
2	Oklahoma	11	1	Then #	2	Beat	Then #	12	Oklahoma State	61	41	314.425	322.918
3	Florida	11	1	Then #	7	Beat	Then #	23	Florida State	45	15	307.694	314.792
4	Texas	11	1	Then #	3	Beat	Then #	79	Texas A&M	49	9	311.780	313.293

Poll 4 http://www.colleyrankings.com/currank.html

team	rating	record	SOS: rank	top 25 wins	top 50 wins	best game
1.	TEXAS	0.940002	11-1	0.596669: 4	3	5	W: #2 OKLAHOMA
2.	OKLAHOMA	0.921550	11-1	0.575142: 13	4	6	W: #6 TEXAS TECH
3.	ALABAMA	0.912339	12-0	0.481062: 82	1	4	W: #13 GEORGIA
4.	FLORIDA	0.904828	11-1	0.555632: 31	2	5	W: #13 GEORGIA
5.	UTAH	0.899982	12-0	0.466646: 86	2	4	W: #14 TCU

Poll 5 http://www.masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=cf

League	Team	                 Rank   Sched
cf	Oklahoma         	  1	  6
cf	Texas Tech       	  2	 13
cf	Texas            	  3	  4
cf	Utah             	  4	 50
cf	Alabama          	  5	 61
cf	Florida          	  6	 23

Poll 6: http://prwolfe.bol.ucla.edu/cfootball/ratings.htm#first

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Rank Team Div W L PF PA Rating Chg
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1 Oklahoma I-A 11 1 640 298 10.215 3
2 Texas I-A 11 1 527 223 10.186 0
3 Texas Tech I-A 11 1 535 315 10.008 0
4 Alabama I-A 12 0 385 138 9.904 -3
5 Utah I-A 12 0 449 207 9.859 0
6 Boise St I-A 12 0 473 147 9.326 3
7 Florida I-A 11 1 556 147 9.224 0