B***CS*** ranking are out
The Gators were off this week, but I’ll comment on the first BCS poll that just came out. UF is tenth - mildly surprising that we are 5th in the AP. However it may not be as hard for us to move up as you might suspect:
*4 of those 9 teams are in the Big 12. Several off them are yet to play one another. More importantly if we win out, only one of those teams can be ahead of us as only one will have a chance to not lose any more games (the best two will be in the conference championship.
*Penn State and OSU play one another, so one of them will drop. Hopefully Penn State, because it would be impossible to catch an undefeated team and the pollsters might conspire against OSU getting a third shot.
*Georgia and Bama are ahead of them, but if we win out we will have beaten both (or someone else will have beaten Bama before the SEC championship.
*The only team ahead of us who won’t have to face another team in the top 10? USC. They don’t even play another ranked team, thanks to the defense free Pac-10. How many losses would they have if they played in the SEC? I’d complain more, but the whole BCS system is a feeble excuse for dodging a real playoff.
So we have a shot. I’m not saying we are going 13-1 and playing for the championship again (a BCS bowl does seem realistic, if far from a lock) – but we do control our own destiny.
*4 of those 9 teams are in the Big 12. Several off them are yet to play one another. More importantly if we win out, only one of those teams can be ahead of us as only one will have a chance to not lose any more games (the best two will be in the conference championship.
*Penn State and OSU play one another, so one of them will drop. Hopefully Penn State, because it would be impossible to catch an undefeated team and the pollsters might conspire against OSU getting a third shot.
*Georgia and Bama are ahead of them, but if we win out we will have beaten both (or someone else will have beaten Bama before the SEC championship.
*The only team ahead of us who won’t have to face another team in the top 10? USC. They don’t even play another ranked team, thanks to the defense free Pac-10. How many losses would they have if they played in the SEC? I’d complain more, but the whole BCS system is a feeble excuse for dodging a real playoff.
So we have a shot. I’m not saying we are going 13-1 and playing for the championship again (a BCS bowl does seem realistic, if far from a lock) – but we do control our own destiny.
posted by El Breto @ 10:50 PM
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