Mac path to the BCS
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:40 pm
I would love to see them make it. Here is how it plays out as far as I can tell. Corrections welcome.
From football guy51 http://www.bcsfootball.org/news/story?id=4819597
Essentially, Ohio would need to be ranked in the top 12 in the BCS rankings. They currently are not inside the top 25, and nobody left on their schedule is going to convince the human polls or the computers to rank them anywhere near the top 12, unless a bunch of high ranked teams start losing. The main qualifications are that if you are a non-AQ school in the top 12, and you are the highest ranked non-AQ school, you automatically get a berth. Or, if you are in the top 16, the top ranked non-AQ school, and you are ranked higher than a conference champion from an AQ conference, then you automatically get a berth. Outiside of that, your only hope is for an at-large bid, which means you need to have 9+ wins and be ranked in the top 14, or hope that there aren't enough schools with that criteria that they must expand to the top 18.
Basically, the only way a MAC school makes the BCS is to play all four non-conference games against total beast opponents, slap them around in those games, destroy every MAC opponent, and hope at least one big conference has a down year. If OU goes 13-0 this season, they may get inside the top 20 of the BCS if they're lucky, which means they are guaranteed to play in the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl, and that's it. It's the sad truth of the BCS bullpoopy."
Current rankings.
*Need to leapfrog Boise St either through votes or a loss for them
**Leads the division (If OU passes only have to go to 16, Best Chance is to be above Big Ten, then Big East, then ACC)
1. Great reason to root for OSU as they can knock down both Wisconsin and Michigan which would greatly help OU.
2. SD St and Nevada are the best chance to beat Boise St.
From football guy51 http://www.bcsfootball.org/news/story?id=4819597
Essentially, Ohio would need to be ranked in the top 12 in the BCS rankings. They currently are not inside the top 25, and nobody left on their schedule is going to convince the human polls or the computers to rank them anywhere near the top 12, unless a bunch of high ranked teams start losing. The main qualifications are that if you are a non-AQ school in the top 12, and you are the highest ranked non-AQ school, you automatically get a berth. Or, if you are in the top 16, the top ranked non-AQ school, and you are ranked higher than a conference champion from an AQ conference, then you automatically get a berth. Outiside of that, your only hope is for an at-large bid, which means you need to have 9+ wins and be ranked in the top 14, or hope that there aren't enough schools with that criteria that they must expand to the top 18.
Basically, the only way a MAC school makes the BCS is to play all four non-conference games against total beast opponents, slap them around in those games, destroy every MAC opponent, and hope at least one big conference has a down year. If OU goes 13-0 this season, they may get inside the top 20 of the BCS if they're lucky, which means they are guaranteed to play in the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl, and that's it. It's the sad truth of the BCS bullpoopy."
Current rankings.
*Need to leapfrog Boise St either through votes or a loss for them
**Leads the division (If OU passes only have to go to 16, Best Chance is to be above Big Ten, then Big East, then ACC)
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12 **Florida State 7-1 Duke-Va Tech-Maryland-#2 Florida
13 South Carolina 6-2 Tennessee-Arkansas-Wofford-#18 Clemson
14 Texas Tech 6-1 #3 Kansas St-#23 Texas-Kansas-Oke St-Baylor
15 **Rutgers 7-0 Kent State-Army-Cincy-Ptt #16 Louisville
16 Louisville 7-0 Cincy-Temple-Syracuse-Uconn-#15 Rutgers
17 Stanford 5-2 Wash St-Colorado-#7 Oregon St-#4 Oregon-UCLA
18 Clemson 6-1 Wake-Duke-Maryland-NC St-#13 SC
19 West Virginia 5-2 TCU-Oke St-#8 Oke-Iowa St-Kansas
20 Texas A&M 5-2 Auburn-#11 Miss St-#1 Bama-Sam Houston St-Missouri
21 *Boise State 6-1 Wyoming-SD St-Hawaii-C State-Nevada
22 **Michigan 5-2 Nebraska-Minnie-Nwestern-Iowa-OSU
23 Texas 5-2 Kansas-#14 Texas Tech-Iowa St-TCU-#3 Kansas St
24 Ohio 7-0 Miami-Eastern-BG-Ball St-Kent
25 Wisconsin 6-2 Michigan St-Indiana-OSU-PSU
2. SD St and Nevada are the best chance to beat Boise St.
