The top seven are unchanged as the big four — Florida, Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama — made their case with blowout wins. Georgia and Missouri tumble after losses to Georgia Tech and Kansas.
You can see the complete BlogPoll over at CBS Sports.com.
Here’s the RazorBloggers ballot for this week:
| Rank | Team | Record | Previous | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida | 11-1 | 1 | Gators survive rain, Seminoles 45-15. Bama next. |
| 2 | Oklahoma | 11-1 | 2 | Sooners stay hot, pull away late from Okie St. |
| 3 | Texas | 11-1 | 3 | Made their case with 49-9 thrashing of Texas A&M. |
| 4 | Alabama | 12-0 | 4 | Snapped 6-game losing streak 36-0 against Tigers. |
| 5 | USC | 10-1 | 5 | Held Irish to 91 total yards in 38-3 rout. UCLA next. |
| 6 | Penn St. | 11-1 | 6 | JoePa’s hip surgery a success; PSU Pasadena bound. |
| 7 | Texas Tech | 11-1 | 7 | Struggled, survived fiesty Baylor 35-28. |
| 8 | Utah | 12-0 | 9 | Utes BCS bowl bound for first time since 2004. |
| 9 | Ohio St. | 10-2 | 12 | OSU season not a total loss…found QB of the future. |
| 10 | Oklahoma St. | 9-3 | 8 | Cowboys hung around, couldn’t stop QB Bradford. |
| 11 | Boise St. | 12-0 | 13 | Boise St. finishes third perfect season since 2004. |
| 12 | Cincinnati | 10-2 | 14 | Bearcats Big East champs after 30-10 win over SU. |
| 13 | Georgia Tech | 9-3 | 18 | Yellow Jackets out rush Georgia in 3rd Qtr 201-1. |
| 14 | Ball St. | 12-0 | 16 | Faces Buffalo in MAC Championship on Friday. |
| 15 | Georgia | 9-3 | 11 | Gives up staggering 409 rush yards in loss to Tech. |
| 16 | Missouri | 9-3 | 10 | KU QB Reesing’s 4 TDs stop Tigers 40-37. |
| 17 | TCU | 10-2 | 17 | Bowl Projections say Poinsettia Bowl for Frogs. |
| 18 | Oregon | 9-3 | 19 | 65-38 rout keeps rival Oregon St. from Rose Bowl. |
| 19 | Boston College | 9-3 | 23 | Plays Hokies for ACC Championship Saturday. |
| 20 | BYU | 10-2 | 20 | BYU consolitation prize…a trip to Las Vegas Bowl? |
| 21 | Michigan St. | 9-3 | 21 | May be headed to sunny Orlando for Capital One. |
| 22 | Mississippi | 8-4 | 25 | HDN SEC Coach of the Year? Stops Bulldogs 45-0. |
| 23 | Oregon St. | 8-4 | 15 | Injured RB Jaquizz Rogers difference against Oregon. |
| 24 | Virginia Tech | 8-4 | NR | Travels to Tampa for ACC Championship vs. BC. |
| 25 | Pittsburgh | 8-3 | NR | Will finish 2nd in Big East. Possible Sun Bowl birth. |
| Others considered: Western Michigan, Florida State, West Virginia, Connecticut, North Carolina, Northwestern, Iowa, Nebraska, Maryland, Tulsa. | ||||
Looks like you are in agreement that the Sooners should play in the Big 12 championship game too. I sure hope they don't blow it again in the game this week. It would be interesting to see Florida vs. Oklahoma in the BCS championship game.
Texas has the better case.
We certainly could have been 2-10 and, we probably belong at about 5-7 but, with the players we have coming back compared to what we are losing, you have to feel really good about our bowl prospects for next year. We need Tebow, Stafford, and Moreno to go out early this year.
I always try to asess who's playing the best ball this time of year, and I have to admit, the top 4 teams in this poll all look pretty darn good right now.
I would also put Florida at #1 and 'Bama at #4, but I think I would have to put Texas and OU in a tie for second.
Texas won the head to head match-up with OU on a nuetral field by 10 points, reguardless of what OU is doing now, and it doesn't matter what OU did to TT at home, because if your going to rely on that theory, then you would also have to figure in that Texas was much more impressive against Oklahoma St at home too. (unless your just figuring in the offense)
Head to head games should always be considered before style points, isn't that what it's all about? otherwise, football fans could sit and argue their team's case all day long.
I'm really not sure how a playoff system would or could be created, but if this isn't proof that college football needs a different system, then I guess we just don't need one.
Florida and 'Bama have an opportunity to settle who is best on the field next weekend, but even if they were in the same boat as OU and Texas, the SEC recognizes head to head matchups, while the Big 12 does it different? allowing their ties to be decided by the BCS? How much of an injustice is that, when the 2 teams that actually made it to the BCS National Championship game, got there by 2 different sets of rules? Are you kidding me?
I hope something changes soon, because college football is starting to become one big joke!
Playoffs?? PLAYOFFS??!!!
Easy as pie.
To win the National title you MUST first win your conference championship.
The 6 BCS conference champions, however they are decided, and two wildcard slots, one guaranteed to a team not in a BCS Conference, would form an 8 team playoff.
The four big bowls would rotate the Championship Game, the two semi-finals and the 4-5 seed quarter final (The Rose bowl would be guaranteed a PAC-10/Big10 match up for the quarters and semis.)
The other bowls could bid for the three other quarter finals or just rotate those with all of the remaining bowls.
The teams not included would match up in the other bowls just like they always have.
Go back to an 11 game regular season. That is only one extra game for two teams and two extra games for two teams. Increase scholarships to cover the difference to 26 and 90.
Or, better yet,
Just rotate the Championship and the semis. Let the Big Bowl on the off year match up the best left over teams. This year, Texas v Alabama would be a good game.
The little bowls would get all of the quarter finals, the Saturday and Sunday before Christmas.
Texas got hosed. And I hate Texas and Oklahoma equally.
BlindHog,
To win the National title you MUST first win your conference championship – but NOT</B. all conference have championships! Thus, this would be a problem!
I think there will always be a problem, until NCAA officials, bowl representatives, conference presidents, school administrators and television network affiliates, all decide to sit down and negotiate as a whole, (a bargaining committee)
and make a contious effort to actually solve the problem.
If they really care about the student-athlete, rather than just the money they rely on them to generate, they will. If they don't, it'll never happen.
They already look like crooks, so it's a no-brainer this should have been taken care of a long time ago.
Go back to an 11 game season, you say? Never gonna happen. That extra game adds millions of dollars to the budgets of the big schools and it provides a pretty nice payday for the little guys that show up for the sacraficial beating.
I expect we will someday have a mini playoff with a "plus 1" game after the bowls are played.
One thing that really annoys me w/the current system is that you can manage to play for a NC without winning your own conference.
Every Conference determines a champion by some measure. They don't all have divisional playoffs. The PAC-10 and the Big 10 will determine a champion without a playoff. They have done it for years. That is up to each conference to determine.
Using a divisional playoff will provide more money and give good teams with a loss or two another chance at the title. It should be the standard. But, that will be up to each conference.
No, they will never give up the 12th game and the money. But, they don't really care about that anyway. The smaller schools have a playoff now and no one says anything about the number of games played. No one says anything about the High School Playoffs.
It is still just 2 more games for two schools, presumably the deepest and most athletic, and one more game for two schools.
It makes the conference titles more important, not less, and gives every school a shot at the title without any voting, regional bias, or computers.
The only real problem here is with the Bowls. They depend on the big turnout by the alums. Enough fans can not travel to 3 different games within a short period of time finance the bowls the way they have before. That is the real sticking point. There is no good way around it. Right now, every alum knows where his one game is a month a head of time. He doesn't have to choose or plan for 2 or 3 games. You are taking the 8 best teams of the year and their rabid fan base out of the normal bowl equation with no real solution. It won't work quite like basketball. All of the numbers are different.
The problem with making the conference championships more important is that not all conferences are equal. Can you justify putting Cincinnati in the BCS playoffs and leaving Texas out? Five of the best 8 teams in the country this year are from two conferences (OU, Texas, T-Tech, Florida, Bama).
I think there's so much building pressure for a playoff that eventually we'll get one, but it probably will be just a plus-one – slightly better than the current system, but still pretty much a Band-Aid. But what can you do when the status quo is bowls, bowls, bowls?
I agree.
So much focus has been put on the bowl system, and so much money is out there for them to be made, that we've developed a system that is impossible to climb out of.
Politics rule in todays society, and it plays a major role in why we've arrived in our situation with college football.
There is almost no way possible now to make everyone come out a winner.
Skywalker is probably right. The best we'll probably see now is nothing more than a band-aid, but I guess it's better than nothing at all…..I think.