Undefeated TCU, Boise State Out of BCS Title Party?

So long Alabama. See ya Utah. Nice to know you Oklahoma. It was Shakedown Saturday in the Bowl Championship Series standings.

The Crimson Tide, Utes and Sooners all saw their title hopes come to a crushing end and according to the BCS Guru, at least one undefeated team could be left out of the title game.

The Guru projects that Oregon, Auburn, Texas Christian and Boise State will occupy the top four spots in the BCS standings when they are released Sunday night. There's a strong possibility that all four could end up undefeated.

Here are the remaining games for those teams: 

Oregon: at California, Arizona, at Oregon State.
Auburn: Georgia, at Alabama, SEC title game.
TCU: San Diego State, at New Mexico.
Boise State: at Idaho, Fresno State, at Nevada, Utah State.

The top one-loss team in Sunday's standings will be Louisiana State at No. 5, according to the Guru. Then comes Wisconsin, Nebraska, Stanford, Ohio State and Michigan State.

The rest of the top 15: Oklahoma State, Alabama, Oklahoma, Iowa and Missouri.

The Guru projects the following BCS matchups:

BCS title game: Oregon vs. Auburn
Rose Bowl: TCU vs. Wisconsin
Sugar Bowl: LSU vs. Ohio State
Orange Bowl: Virginia Tech vs. Oklahoma State
Fiesta Bowl: Nebraska vs. Pittsburgh

Comments

[Jim Grossman]

Since everyone agrees the BCS is broken and essentially is a "beauty contest." Until we get a proper playoff system like every other sport here's a suggestion: Evaluate teams by how efficient they are. In other words, rank the teams on how well they play (win/loss record, strength of schedule and statistics) against how much resources they have (football budget, ranking of incoming recruiting class, maybe even size of fan base.) Ideally this would be the only ranking qualification in both the human and computer polls, but even if it was just a component of either or both sets of polls, I think it would spur what I believe 'amateur' and college sports should ultimately and even exclusively be about; the pursuit of excellence, not necessarily dominance. Leave that to the pros and their driven pursuit of almighty dollar. Evaluating teams based on efficiency and ultimately excellence would also be much more patriotic and exemplify the values that American was founded and built upon. Doing more with less, creating an environment where everyone is free to succeed and establishing a level playing field where everyone knows and plays by the same rules... What do you think? Nixon went to China, the Berlin Wall came down, why not this?

[John Hunter]

I sure hope we get Boise State or TCU in the title game. Which really means I have to hope Auburn losses. I also hope the Rose Bowl isn't TCU vs. Wisconsin because I think my Badgers would be killed. If Boise State or TCU gets the Rose Bowl, I sure hope it isn't against Wisconsin. Unless one of those two played Oregon (very unlikely) I think they will destroy whoever they played.

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