. . Or is it down the rabbit hole? Whatever, the first Bowl Championship Series standings are just plain weird, and they may keep getting weirder.
October 15, 2007
Saturday it was California Coach Jeff Tedford slamming his headset to the turf after a tough day at the office, and Sunday it was the rest of us.First reaction to the first Bowl Championship Series standings:
Huh?Second reaction:What?Third reaction: (see first reaction).Welcome to the annual BCS game called show-and-hell.The top five schools in the BCS are Ohio State, South Florida, Boston College, Louisiana State and Oklahoma.OK, if you insist, but as roll-outs go, it was not exactly the Mercury astronauts.In fact, the only component the BCS formula lacks is a gag reflex index.Ohio State's big road wins were at Washington, which lost to UCLA, which lost to Utah; and at Purdue, which lost to Michigan, which lost to Appalachian State.For this Ohio State is No. 1 in both human polls and T-5 in the computers.No one works the BCS better than the Buckeyes, and for this they should be congratulated and forwarded directly to this year's national-title game loss.We've seen this movie and we know how it ends. The Big Ten isn't as good as it was last year, and it wasn't that good last year, and Ohio State can't be as good as it was last year, and it wasn't that good last year.The top BCS team from the Pacific 10 Conference is No. 8 Arizona State, which, like Ohio State, has apparently used a program-transforming win against Washington to sail in from some remote atoll.This is welcome news for the heretofore invisible Sun Devils and their coach, Dirk Koetter . . . wait, he's not the coach anymore?And, tough as it is to cough up, according to early BCS returns, Les Miles was right. LSU is No. 2 in the computers and USC is No. 23 after playing all those "real juggernauts" such as Stanford. The record of USC's opponents is 13-27 with 1-6 Notre Dame waiting on deck.Yet, the Pac-10 has more teams in the BCS top 14, four, than any other conference.Wait, maybe Les Miles was wrong. Maybe the Pac-10 is really good, but USC isn't.It all makes perfect, Alice in Wonderland sense.
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