5 Undefeated teams?

[TrueOrange]

I was about to say 2008 Texas may be one of the best cases of the BCS being the worst. Head-to-head win over Oklahoma, lost on a touchdown with one second to play on the road at a top ten team, played just as well as Oklahoma did throughout the course of the season. However, Oklahoma ran the score up every opportunity possible, which apparently gets you into title games.

That was more on the Coaches Poll and Harris Poll though. They jumped OU over Texas after they beat Texas Tech the way they did.


That one was almost all on the human polls

 

[Daloth]

I think Baylor would jump ohio st if both went undefeated, but barring the #3 or #2 teams getting trounced in their bowls, I don't see Baylor getting higher than 4th.

 

[TennFan]

The 'Noles will knock Miami from the unbeatens! Can Baylor's offense be slowed down by Oklahoma, OKlahoms St, or Texas Tech or Texas? All are tough games!
Oregon's biggest game is against Stanford. Bama will beat LSU by 14! The rest of their schedule is easy including Auburn, who they will beat by 24!

 

[UTRavens]

I would also say the Miami 2000 got screwed as well. They got jumped by FSU. Both had 1 loss but Miami had already beaten FSU head to head during the season.

Except 1 loss Washington beat Miami, so they were the real ones who got screwed out of the title game. For some reason, no one remembers that.

As for 2008 Texas, people forget that was a three-way tie and all three teams had beaten each other. If you believe in head to head being the most important tiebreaker, then there's no choice but to have those three teams simply cancel each other out - then you move on to the next tiebreaker.

 

[perico]

This. Kansas State and UCLA were supposed to play for the first BCS national championship in 1998 until they both lost on the last weekend, catapulting UT to #1 in the BCS. It always seems to work itself out. 1994 with Auburn is the only year where someone clearly got shafted by the system.

We were #1 in the BCS rankings and the AP poll before the SEC championship. Kansas State was #1 in the coaches poll and UCLA was across the board #3. We would have still been in the game regardless. The only mathematical way we would've been out was if we had lost to Miss State.

 

[TrueOrange]

We were #1 in the BCS rankings and the AP poll before the SEC championship. Kansas State was #1 in the coaches poll and UCLA was across the board #3. We would have still been in the game regardless. The only mathematical way we would've been out was if we had lost to Miss State.

The AP Poll was still part of the BCS formula in 1998, not sure why you're mentioning it separately here.

 

[508mikey]

LSU beats Alabama - Stanford beats Oregon - Texas beats Baylor - Florida beats Florida St --- Ohio Puke is in