KU/Miss would still be a huge game in a 8 seed playoff system (I can't see them doing more than that for football.) The loser probably wouldn't make it, and the winner would get the top seed.
If you think that people don't care about regular season B-ball and conference tournaments, you haven't lived any where near ACC country. I assume other big b-ball conferences are the same. Around here, the ACC tournament is usually the bigger deal the NCAA.
If the winner of tonight's game loses next week, then it is a toss up between like 7 teams over who gets the #2 ranking, with WVU probably being the safe choice for #1. WVU probably doesn't deserve to be where they are either though. Their big wins were all against teams over-rated at the time. They'd probably be a 3-4 loss team in the SEC. If KU/Miss winner loses next week to OK, then LSU (if they win), Georgia, VT (if they win), USC, Oklahoma, Ohio State, WVU are all pretty much equally qualified.
I can't see Hawaii getting a BCS birth. They jump ahead of what, Texas and Oregon this week. Still puts them at 12th or so in the polls, and the computers hate them. Even if they pass 2 more teams next week, they'll probably be about 10 or 11 in the BCS standings, and maybe 9th at best in the polls. Boise State was way higher than that last year, weren't they? They deserve a shot to show what they've got IMO.
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