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Originally Posted by flip
What do you mean? Haven't all but TT and Alabama already lost a game?
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Yes, all the other teams have lost a game and they would need to have two loses for Utah or Boise State to pass them in the BCS standings.
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Basically he is insistant that the BCS calculations/rules give undefeated teams a guarantee to the NC as long as they are in the top ten.
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Wrong. Same thing happened with Hawaii last year. They were undefeated but did not go to the national championship game. You don't get rewarded for playing in a bogus conference with a free trip to the national championship.
There are provisions that if you are ranked high enough that you get to go to a BCS bowl but not the championship game. I think your friend is mistaking automatic BCS bowl bid with automatic championship bowl bid.
The championship game is between the top two teams in the BCS standings regardless of who is or isn't undefeated.
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He has even insinuated that as long as Ball State was the only undefeated team in the top 25 they would finish #1 in the BCS rankings and play for the national championship.
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Once again he is wrong.
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So if Boise State and Utah win out and finish undefeated, while TT, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida and USC all have one loss Boise State and Utah won't play in the NC game?
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That is correct.
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Utah clearly isn't the best team in the nation even if they do go undefeated. I can't imagine any scenario, this season, where they would get to the NC game.
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There really isn't any situation now where that would happen. They would have needed basically ever team from the Big 12, Big 10, SEC and USC to have two loses to jump over them.
Even undefeated there is no way that a team like Utah is going to be ranked over a one loss team from a decent conference.