Alright I’ve been quiet for a bit on the whole OU football front, especially considering the smackdown that OU gave Texas Tech and the 61 points that the Sooners hung on the Cowboys in Stillwater. I know, it’s rather shocking that I haven’t said anything, partially because I wanted to wait and see if OU could get there– I thought there was a distinct possibility that we might lose either one or both games, and [not] have the 3 way tie that we now know occurred.

As you may or may not know, OU broke the 3 way tie with its BCS score, and is headed to the Big 12 Championship (and presumably the national championship if we win). There’s been a lot of hollering and crying by Texas fans, and for the most part, I understood it. Sure, they beat OU by 10 points on a neutral field.

But the thing about Texas fans is they don’t seem to understand is that it was a THREE way tie, not a head-to-head tie. If Texas hadn’t lost to Texas Tech, none of this conversation would be happening. Many of those same fans claim that it was a last second touchdown that lost the game for them and that it was a road game. But guess what? It WASN’T a last-second score. For more than 3 quarters of the game, Tech was leading, and by a comfortable margin. To say that the Tech game doesn’t count and that only head-to-head should be considered in this mess only goes to show how weak Texas must have been to lose to this Tech team. But no, they chant again and again only about the infamous 45-35 score in Dallas in October. So what if OU had just beaten Tech by 1 point? Would that have made Texas fans actually recognize it as a 3 way tie? I think not.

To add to this, Mack Brown, Texas’s head coach, decided it would be wise to once again start lobbying for votes (Stoops stopped politicking by this point), going so far as to lobby DURING the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State game. Tacky. Stoops was given the same opportunity during the Texas-Texas A&M game but declined because he didn’t feel it was ‘classy’. (I concur.) What’s worse– the politicking actually worked! Many of the voters who had ranked OU #2 after the Tech game reversed their thinking after the OSU game to put Texas at #2. Thankfully, the computers saw through the veneer and have nothing to do with politics or UT text messages in the 3rd quarter of a game. They recognized that OU played the #2 team and destroyed them, is the ONLY Big 12 South team to have a quality ROAD WIN, and had the toughest out of conference schedule including beating the Big East’s conference champion and TCU, the #1 defense in the country. ESPN still belabors repeatedly how the wrong Big 12 team is going to the championship.

And all of this I was willing to just ignore, and push under the rug.

But THIS pissed me off: Even if OU were to get to the national title game and win the BCS, TEXAS could still get named the AP champion. Lest you think this couldn’t happen, think again. It’s exactly what happened when during the LSU/OU BCS Championship– guess who got the AP prize? USC.

This is ridiculous. I say to you Texas, MAN UP and accept what happened. I know that Texas fans are first off praying that OU loses against Missouri (which means Texas would probably get into the NC game), or holding off for this atrocious predicament. I mean what else does OU have to DO here?? Florida, who lost to unranked Ole Miss, is already predicted as the next national champion. Who did OU lose to? The #5 team in the country. And afterwards? Blowing out the last 4 opponents by at least 60 points a piece.

Here’s my advice to Texas:

1. Schedule tougher out of conference games- not Florida Atlantic, UTEP, and Rice.
2. Don’t lose. End of story.
3. Grow a pair.

I’m sure my next post will be a little less… fired up. Thanks.

[Edit:] Check out this link– it uses just one of the computer rankings and allows you to ‘Play God’ as it were with all the different “What if?” scenarios and how it would play into the final BCS rankings. Once again, just from that one computer. And this isn’t taking into account the other 2/3 of the BCS, the human polls.