Can the Sooners remain No. 1 in the BCS Standings without being ranked first in either of the two "human" polls? Is America staring at a split national championship? And is it really true that the final BCS Standings were determined by what happened in upstate New York earlier in the day, and in Honolulu in the wee hours of Sunday, Eastern time? Yes. Conceivably. Absolutely.
How could Div I-AA playoff games count....when the playoffs are going on long past the time the final BCS standings come out (which is today)? Am I not making sense on this argument?
I don't understand your question, but the logic behind it is: Beating a Div I-A school proves something for Div I-A SOS. Lossing to a Div I-A school proves something for Div I-A SOS. Beating a Div I-AA school proves nothing for Div I-A SOS. Losing to a Div I-AA school is even worse than losing to a Div I-A school, so that loss should count. That's where the logic comes in.
I think in 2 computer polls (not sure which ones) D1 AA games count through this week since this is the last week of D1A football. that is what the Dallas Morning News is saying...I would hope they have their shit in line.
Hey Isselstissel! I, too, have greatly enjoyed reading your analysis. Good work. I suppose the rest of you still here, like me, can't sleep! It's great to be an LSU Tiger! I wish my mother was still alive to enjoy this and so I could call her up and talk LSU football. She was about the biggest LSU fan there ever was. How 'bout dem Tigers, Mom?!!!!
From what I understand, the winner of the BCS national championship is the outright NC. The human polls can choose to disagree with it, but the Sugar Bowl champ is the champ. No split championship is possible.
I'm not saying the playoffs count. They very well may not. But we don't know for sure. The bowl games count as for as stats and records with our schools, so who's to say the Div I-AA playoffs don't count for them? They may just say (for the BCS's sake) that all Div I-AA playoff game played up until the date of the final BCS Standings count. Everything else doesn't matter.
You're wrong, AP can vote ANY WAY IT F-ING WANTS TO ESPN goes with the BCS NC Winner. AP ... the most trusted poll in America ... since 1936
Actually, if you remember, they were talking about the possibility of a split champion in 2001 if Nebraska had beaten Miami. The coaches poll is OBLIGATED to vote the winner of the BCS Championship game No. 1. The AP has no such limitation. So, if USC was No. 1 going into bowl week, and LSU beat Oklahoma and USC beat Michigan, USC could be No. 1 in the AP and LSU could be No. 1 in the Coaches and we'd have a split champion.
