Why You Don’t Want To Be In The Big XII Championship

BCS Standings Through This Week: 1. Alabama 2. Oklahoma (updated) 3. Texas (updated) 4. Florida 5. USC

There is a hot debate this weekend about which team out of Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma should play Missouri in the Big 12 Championship. Texas Tech is all but out which leaves Texas and Oklahoma vying for that spot. It will be determined by which team is ranked higher in this week's BCS Standings. Early reports from CBS Sportsline report that Oklahoma has moved ahead of Texas in one of the 6 computer rankings. I think if you’re OU or Texas you should be trying not to play in the Big 12 Championship Game and here is why:

1. #1 Alabama plays #4 Florida: The simple answer here is that which ever team wins this game will be in the BCS Championship game, and the loser won’t. That is true. That means that if Bama wins, Florida probably drops below USC. And if Florida wins Bama could drop to 3,4 or 5 (pushing the team that doesn't play for the Big 12 Championship up at least one spot).

2. OU/Texas vs. Missouri: The results of the Big 12 Championship have been mixed. The game started in 1996 with Texas beating #3 Nebraska. There have also been upsets where #10 Texas A&M beat #2 Kansas St. (1998), #9 Colorado beat #3 Texas (2001), #15 Kansas St. beat #1 Oklahoma (2003) and #9 Oklahoma beating #1 Missouri (2007). This could now only hurt whichever team plays against Missouri. If UT/OU winner were to win, they would play in the BCS Championship, but there is a slim chance that if Missouri upsets UT/OU then the one who didn’t make the Big 12 Championship game could play for the BCS Championship (which is a whole other debate).

3. USC/UCLA: This could all be for naught but, if Missouri upsets OU/UT and if USC defeats or destroys UCLA then USC could jump the OU/UT team that didn’t make the Big 12 Championship and USC could play the Florida/Bama winner. This could’ve only been more interesting if Oregon State had won yesterday, winning the Pac-10 and we could’ve had the Pac-10 Champ play in the Rose Bowl, with the non-Pac-10 Champ in the Championship.

The BCS is crazy: I say that if you’re OU or UT you DON’T want to play another game, and you just want to pray that Missouri can pull of an upset and possibly that UCLA beats USC.

Tmil42AAA-er

344 days ago

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I'll say this for the BCS: It certainly does make things interesting.

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Taytay 24All-American

344 days ago

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Don't confuse "controversial" or "idiotic" with "interesting".

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The BeastAAA-er

344 days ago

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Sounds like a playoff to me: SEC winner plays Big XII winner/USC.

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JuTMSY4Legend

344 days ago

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USC isn't going to the BCS championship game...

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The BeastAAA-er

342 days ago

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You're right SC probably won't but it's possible that they could if Mizzou wins. A Mizzou win would give USC an argument over Texas since the Longhorns didn't win their own conference. Weird things happen. I don't expect the Trojans to play in the NCG but it's still a possibility.

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Anonymous Fanatic #1

344 days ago

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Part of me wishes that Oregon State had beaten Oregon and that the Pac-10 runner up (USC) and the Big 12 runner up (Texas) in the south could meet for the BCS championship

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RawbeezeitzMajor Leaguer

344 days ago

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Good points, but kind of a defeatist attitude. I'm an Oklahoma fan and I'm thrilled that OU is playing Missouri because they control their own destiny now. All the Sooners have to do is defeat a weaker team and they're in the title game.

It's true that something bad can happen, but the chances of OU beating Missouri are smaller than the chances of Missouri beating Texas. So I'd rather play Missouri than watch Texas and pray that they lose.

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RawbeezeitzMajor Leaguer

344 days ago

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Correction:

The chances of OU beating Missouri are LARGER than the chances of Missouri beating Texas.

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OnthemarkblogJV Squad

344 days ago

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I'm just pointing out that this could be worse for the team that is playing...we have seen these types of 'major' upsets before

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RawbeezeitzMajor Leaguer

344 days ago

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True, Oklahoma isn't in the national championship game yet. And even if they beat Missouri, Texas isn't too far behind them in the BCS. The polls could always change.

And Oklahoma hasn't lost to Missouri since 1998.

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