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Locked due to no posts in 60 days. Report 1st post if need unlocked Three Harris Poll voters ranked Oklahoma St. No. 6

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Not to mention Nick Sabin ranked them #4 in the Coaches Poll....no surprise really....what a mess....


1. Oklahoma State ranked sixth ... three times. We won't wade into the "Alabama vs. Oklahoma State" debate here, but at least we can agree -- when looking at the Cowboys' resume before they drubbed Oklahoma and claimed the outright title of the deepest league in the country this year -- that the Tide and Cowboys should have been No. 2 and No. 3 in some order, right?

Not if you ask former Iowa administrator George Wine, former Notre Dame wideout Derrick Mayes, former Hawaii coach Bob Wagner, who each had the Cowboys sixth. Wine went with Houston, fresh off their 49-28 beatdown at the hands of Southern Miss, at No. 5; Mayes went with Mountain West runner-up Boise State fifth; and Wagner ranked Boise No. 4 and two-loss Oregon fifth. All together, 15 voters placed the Cowboys fourth or lower. (The good news, Cowboy fans? That didn't cost you the title game.)
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Of course, the BCS's real problem isn't the Harris poll itself; no matter how you construct a poll like this one, there's going to be strongly-held biases and blatant stupidities.
The issue is that using a poll like the Harris (or Coaches, or AP) ensures that -- when the margin for error in selecting a playoff that includes only two teams is so thin -- those biases and stupidities are magnified and multiplied. Push the playoff to four teams, and it won't matter if a few outliers put the Cowboys sixth; reward merit over (purported) fan support, and no one will care that Virginia Tech gets so much benefit-of-the-doubt.
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http://eye-on-college-football.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/33712365
 

Just think if OSU had been an SEC team they might have gone up in the polls after losing. After all it was in double overtime.
 
Sure seems there is a huge baisis....

Not to mention the actual voters in the two polls (Harris & Coaches).....

CombatTargeteer said:
Just think if OSU had been an SEC team they might have gone up in the polls after losing. After all it was in double overtime.
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Also every Big 12 coach voted Oak St 2nd except for one, Pinkel whose team joins....drum roll please the SEC next year. This system stinks !
 
MyBraska said:
Maybe - but Alabama didn't need the conference championship game - in fact, their CCG absence actually helped them.
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that too but what I was thinking they would have had 12 coaches voting them #2 rather than 10 coaches; and it was all tongue-in-cheek anyway....;)
 




Lakewood Husker said:
Also every Big 12 coach voted Oak St 2nd except for one, Pinkel whose team joins....drum roll please the SEC next year. This system stinks !
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If we're going to play Conspiracy Theory, it actually makes MORE sense for Pinkel to vote Okie State #2. Okie State gets in the BCS Title game, which by itself means more money for the XII. In addition, it increases the liklihood that K-State gets a BCS at-large berth, bringing in even more money.

Why should Pinkel care about how much money the XII gets from the bowls? Mizzou is on the hook for a pretty hefty exit fee, and since the XII splits bowl revenue, every extra dollar in is money they don't have to find under the couch cushions.
 
The Big 12 did it to themselves for not wanting a championship game....they need to quit their whinning. Just think if they would have played a top 10 team in KSU and won they would have jumped Alabama. Either make all BCS conference play by the same rules by having conference championships or punish the Big 12 and Big East for not playing by the same rules.
 
Pinkel feels he has contributed enough to the money Mizzou will pay out to the Big12..............................;)
 
OSU beat 7 teams with a .500 record or better and 2 Top 10 teams.....and Alabama who only beat 3 teams with a .500 record or better...and nobody in the Top 10...so I could not disagree with you more.....this all about the voters in the two polls and the biasis that the SEC gets in the human vote....

On the CCG's I do agree with you though....

p-ville husker said:
The Big 12 did it to themselves for not wanting a championship game....they need to quit their whinning. Just think if they would have played a top 10 team in KSU and won they would have jumped Alabama. Either make all BCS conference play by the same rules by having conference championships or punish the Big 12 and Big East for not playing by the same rules.
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p-ville husker said:
The Big 12 did it to themselves for not wanting a championship game....they need to quit their whinning. Just think if they would have played a top 10 team in KSU and won they would have jumped Alabama. Either make all BCS conference play by the same rules by having conference championships or punish the Big 12 and Big East for not playing by the same rules.
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OSU did play KSU.
 
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