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#401
#401
I kind of hope Michigan does get a BCS bid. A lot of my friends are Michigan fans, so it's always nice to see them do well.
 
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#402
govols120 said:
I think it looks like this now:

NC: LSU-Bama
Orange: VT-WVU
Sugar: Michigan-TCU (this coaching matchup makes me extremely nervous as a Michigan fan)
Fiesta: Oklahoma State-Stanford
Rose: Wisconsin-Oregon
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I get the TCU placement if they move up to 16 after today (unless I guess Southern Miss's win over #6 by so much somehow catapults them ahead of TCU.....not very likely, but still slightly possible), but I'm not completely sure where you're getting Michigan from there (other than fandom I guess...or you're banking on ISU winning today)
 
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#403
Michigan moves up to 14th if Georgia loses. Loser of MState/Wisconsin drops below Michigan, so they'll barely squeak in to eligibility. Banking on the likelihood that a BCS bowl takes easy money with Michigan's fan base and selects them
 
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#404
they'd have to turn down a likely ranked inside the top 10 Kansas St though, the ranking seems like it could make it a bit of a push either way...especially since it's the Sugar Bowl and not the Rose Bowl
 
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#405
Of course we're all leaving out if OU beats Ok St...which could actually end up putting both those teams in
 
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#406
BCS bowls don't care about rankings, all they care about is money. KSU deserves to go ahead of Michigan, but Michigan probably gets the nod because they'll bring in more money (more fans, more local tourism dollars, etc.).
 
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#407
i know that, believe me.


If Kansas St ends up #8 or so (which it looks like they might), and the Sugar is forced to take TCU (...or say even gets the first at large choice - which they might actually, I need to double check - and takes #3-4 Stanford), I just don't see it as such a certain,sure-thing, landslide that they drop down 5-6 spaces for the bigger fan base thing...marketability nationally is part of their selection revenue as well (plus there might be some reaction to skipping 7-8-9 to take 13-14-15)


If KSU were say Baylor and had major traveling issues, it'd be another thing though, easily....by possibly like a mile

The only time I think I've ever seen one of the BCS bowls make a directional move like that was the Rose Bowl with Illinois several years back
 
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#408
that said (note I'm not saying "it definitely won't happen" or anything such like), if it does happen the Cotton Bowl might be looking at a one hell of a game television wise
 
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#412
Also worth just noting, the only reason #16 would get TCU an Automatic bid this season is because the Big East Champion (WVU) will almost certainly be ranked beneath them, if I'm understanding this correctly

The champion of Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, the Mountain West Conference, the Sun Belt Conference, or the Western Athletic Conference will earn an automatic berth in a BCS bowl game if either:

A. Such team is ranked in the top 12 of the final BCS Standings, or,
B. Such team is ranked in the top 16 of the final BCS Standings and its ranking in the final BCS Standings is higher than that of a champion of a conference that has an annual automatic berth in one of the BCS bowls.
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#416
Part of the issue guessing on that one is the stigma / negative press that might most likely come with them...so it is possible some one (or two) in their range might pass on them
 
#419
#419
might be a hard push for TCU moving up the way some of these games are going here today


I can see why they were running up the score on UNLV
 
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