Your official "How Does LSU make its way into the BCS Title Game?" Thread

Stanford is almost a shoe in for Pasadena, unless they end up with 3 losses. Heck even a 2 loss Arizona would get in. That's how much the PAC-10 has a hard on for selecting PAC-10 vs Big 10.

BCS Title game: Oregon vs TCU (Hypothetical and most likely scenario)

Rose: Stanford (even with 2 losses) vs Ohio State/Wisconsin/Michigan State

Sugar: Auburn vs Big East Champ (Yuk!)

Orange: LSU vs the ACC Champ.

Fiesta: Boise State vs Big 12 Champ

The Big East will be shut out this year because no team from that conference will end up in the top 18 in the BCS. That conference needs to be removed from the list of BCS Conferences, and I think that will happen soon unless they get 12 teams and a conference championship which is very unlikely.

EDIT: Big East Champ is guaranteed a BCS bowl game.

As far as LSU's hopes for a BCS bowl game go, we will be in direct competition with the 2nd best Big 12 team or a potential 1 loss Big 10 team. There is NO scenario in which the 2nd best Big 12 team would have less than 2 losses. So LSU will definitely be picked in that scenario. The main concern is a 1 loss Big 10 team who does not win the tie breaker for the Big 10 title. Will LSU be picked over them? I would think so.

 

Correct about WVU. Why the heck they lost those last 2 games in such excruciating fashion is beyond me (well actually that head coach is a good starting point).

And yes, just about every computer poll takes into consideration quality wins (top 10, top 15, top 25). So the more the better for LSU. We will have a most decided advantage in that regard over any other 1 loss team. I would go so far as to say we would be ranked #2 in every computer poll behind just TCU given every other team has at least 1 loss. We just need enough teams to wedge themselves in between LSU and Boise State to keep that decided advantage in the computer polls. Hard to tell how that will shake out because on one hand we need these undefeated teams to lose, on the other hand they may fall behind Boise State in the computer polls (although a 1 loss Auburn team would not in most of the polls).

 

If Stanford ends up with only 1 loss and near top 5, they are most certainly going to Glendale.

The Rose gets first replacement for Oregon/PAC 10. And then the Big 10 Champ automatically goes. Iowa won't go unless all 3 one loss Big 10 teams lose and someone Iowa has the tiebreaker.