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Wild BCS Scenario: What if Oklahoma and Texas Meet in the BCS Championship Game?

If you haven't read this article about the BCS rankings and Florida's current malaise in the standings, do so immediately. For the sake of this article, feel free to assume that Florida wins the SEC Championship game, and Oklahoma romps Missouri in the Big XII title matchup.

What if Oklahoma ascends to #1, and Texas squeaks past Florida for #2? Lets take care of the obvious, first of all.

  1. The Big XII would have contributed both of its BCS teams.
  2. Florida fans would raise hell.
  3. A whole new can of worms would potentially blow the lid off of the BCS, for good this time.

What is my angle?

As you all are well aware, the BCS takes an absolute maximum of 2 teams per conference. This is to prevent an east coast (or SEC) bias, I imagine.

The Fiesta Bowl contracts the Big XII representative to play in its game every year. Should they lose their champion to the BCS title game, they take another Big XII team. Should they lose both teams to the BCS Championship, what would they do?

  • Florida would be the automatic SEC berth, and would thus be slotted to play in the Sugar Bowl.
  • USC and Penn State are locked into the Rose Bowl, no matter what happens this week.
  • Boston College or Virginia Tech, whoever wins the ACC, is in the Orange Bowl.
  • Cincinnati is playing somewhere.
  • Utah is playing somewhere.

This leaves 2 at-large berths, and the Fiesta Bowl has complete control over the future of the BCS. In terms of chaos, they could really "tear down this wall," should they so decide to.

The Fiesta Bowl can play it safe, picking Alabama and a team like Ohio State... Or they can spring for complete anarchy, picking Boise State and another at-large team like Ball State. Does this make monetary sense? Absolutely not! But it would leave these teams out of the BCS, big money bowls:

  1. Alabama
  2. Texas Tech (already eliminated by virtue of Texas/Oklahoma title matchup)
  3. Ohio State
  4. TCU

The sheer amount of awfulness that the BCS Bowls would reek this year would be enough to have a playoff system appear as soon as the 2010 bowl cycle.

Lets look at the chaos:

Bowl Game Participants
Fiesta Bowl
Boise St. Broncos (at-large) vs. Ball St. Cardinals (at-large)
Sugar Bowl
Florida Gators (lock) vs. Utah/Cincinnati
Orange Bowl
ACC Champion (lock) vs. Utah/Cincinnati
Rose Bowl
USC Trojans (lock) vs. Penn St. Nittany Lions (lock)
BCS Championship Oklahoma Sooners (lock) vs. Texas Longhorns (lock)

The whole thing is a beautiful mess. If only it would happen.

All of this is moot if Alabama wins, or Florida passes Texas in the BCS bowls... It's just so glorious to conceive an alternate reality where undefeated teams are rewarded for their play.

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is in the BCS. They’ll get picked up — their fain base is too big and appealing to be left out with just one loss.

I know you’re just dreaming here — but there’s no way in hell Ball State gets in over Bama.

I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles

by Dirk Diggler on Dec 3, 2008 6:48 AM MST reply actions  

ASU's D put up 4 TD's on UCLA's offense

and USC’s D is about 10x better than ASU’s.

I would put my life savings on USC winning that game. May not be a lock, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume they’ll be in the Rose Bowl.

I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles

by Dirk Diggler on Dec 3, 2008 9:22 PM MST up reply actions  

FYI

I have a buddy who works in TCU’s athletic office. They just got a shipment of 24 Boise St. media guides and the rumor is they’re going to have TCU vs Boise in the Poinsettia Bowl.

It’s on ESPN.com too:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3743813

According to a source close to the bowl situation, it is “highly unlikely” that Boise State will play in a BCS bowl this season, leaving the door open for either Ohio State or USC, depending on the outcomes of this weekend’s games. A matchup between Boise State and TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl is currently in the works and could be decided as early as Thursday.

I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles

by Dirk Diggler on Dec 4, 2008 12:11 PM MST reply actions  

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