If Oklahoma State beats Oklahoma, the Cowboys (10-2 then) would wrest the final BCS slot away from BOISE STATE

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By Kirk Bohls | Sunday, November 22, 2009, 10:57 AM

1. Move over, Bill Belichick. LSU’s Les Miles pulled the biggest bonehead mistake of the year, maybe college or pro, by wasting so much time before calling a timeout and then not getting his field-goal team on the field with a second remaining for a chance to beat Ole Miss. Could make Michigan pause and wonder if it should fire Rich Rodriguez and hire the wannabe Wolverine.
2. Says here if Mack Brown isn’t Big 12 Coach of the Year, it has to be Iowa State’s Paul Rhoads for the turnaround he’s directed at Ames. Rhoads got the Cyclones bowl-eligible in his first year with a team picked to finish fifth in the Big 12 North. Don’t go to sleep on this guy. National coach of the year? Probably Temple’s Al Golden for nine wins. If not, Oregon’s Chip Kelly.
3. I could see Mike Leach leave Texas Tech for Louisville because the pastures are greener and the girlfriends apparently skinnier. Plus, the Cardinals have great facilities, good athletic budget and an easier conference (Big East) to win it. Head Pirate just might be tiring of butting heads with Texas and Oklahoma every year. Personally, we in the media should start a kitty to try to keep him in Lubbock because he’s so entertaining.
4. The Pac-10 is the best conference in the nation this season. Not sure there is a No. 2 conference.
5. Have you seen the scoring stats of Clemson’s phenom, C.J. Spiller? He’s scored six touchdowns rushing, four receiving, three on kickoffs, one on a punt and thrown a touchdown pass. Can you say complete player? He’s the only player in America to have scored every game.
6. If I was the Kansas athletic director, I’d hire Dan McCarney. He won respectably at Iowa State, and he knows the Big 12. That said, here’s betting the Jayhawks either hire Buffalo’s Turner Gill or whomever basketball coach Bill Self wants.
7. Did you catch Oklahoma receiver Ryan Broyles, who was taunting the Texas Tech defender after scoring a touchdown to make it — and this is the good part — a 34-13 game in the Red Raiders’ favor? The refs should have flagged this clown twice. By the way, the Sooners defense looked like it gave up on Tech’s final touchdown on a short run in the last minute of the game. Don’t be surprised if junior cornerback Dominique Franks and fourth-year junior and always-injured running back DeMarco Murray turn pro.
8. Is there really any good reason the NFL shouldn’t put two games on Monday Night Football? As bad as some of them are — and the Baltimore-Cleveland game was borderline unwatchable — Roger Goodell should roll the dice (oops, sorry about gambling reference) and may get one game if you have two chances.
9. Peter King and others have talked about the huge, unfair advantage the Cowboys have because of their annual Thanksgiving game. I don’t see it that way. Sure, it’s an edge for the next game, but with three days off between games on the front end, doesn’t that even things out?
10. One crazy prediction: If Oklahoma State beats Oklahoma this week, the Cowboys (10-2 then) would wrest the final BCS slot away from unbeaten Boise State because the Fiesta would honor its Big 12 ties and T. Boone Pickens would shuttle flights to and from Tempe the week before. The other three BCS at-large teams would be the Alabama-Florida loser, Penn State and TCU.

I do not believe that prediction ... bunk

here is from espn



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2009 Bowl Projections - Week 11
BOWL (MATCHUP) Mark Schlabach Bruce Feldman
Citi BCS National Championship Game
(BCS No. 1 vs. BCS No. 2) Alabama vs. Texas Florida vs. Texas
Tostitos Fiesta
(BCS vs. BCS) Iowa vs. Boise State Penn State vs. Boise State
Allstate Sugar
(BCS vs. BCS) Florida vs. Cincinnati Alabama vs. Cincinnati
FedEx Orange
(BCS vs. BCS) Georgia Tech vs. TCU Georgia Tech vs. TCU
Rose Bowl presented by Citi
(BCS vs. BCS) Oregon vs. Ohio State Oregon vs. Ohio State
GMAC
(ACC vs. MAC) Notre Dame vs. Central Michigan Southern Methodist vs. Central Michigan
International
(Big East vs. MAC) South Florida vs. Northern Illinois West Virginia vs. Temple
AutoZone Liberty
(C-USA vs. SEC) East Carolina vs. Tennessee Houston vs. Arkansas
AT&T Cotton
(Big 12 vs. SEC) Oklahoma State vs. Arkansas Nebraska vs. LSU
Konica Minolta Gator
(ACC vs. Big 12/Big East/Notre Dame) Virginia Tech vs. Pittsburgh Miami (FL) vs. Notre Dame
Capital One
(SEC vs. Big Ten) Mississippi vs. Penn State Mississippi vs. Iowa
Outback
(Big Ten vs. SEC) Wisconsin vs. LSU Wisconsin vs. Auburn
Chick-fil-A
(SEC vs. ACC) Georgia vs. Clemson Tennessee vs. Virginia Tech
Insight
(Big 12 vs. Big Ten) Kansas State vs. Minnesota Texas Tech vs. Minnesota
Gaylord Hotels Music City
(ACC vs. SEC) North Carolina vs. Auburn Florida State vs. Georgia
Brut Sun
(Pac-10 vs. Big 12/Big East/Notre Dame) USC vs. Texas Tech USC vs. Oklahoma
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces
(Mountain West vs. C-USA) Air Force vs. Southern Methodist Air Force vs. Tulsa
Pacific Life Holiday
(Pac-10 vs. Big 12) Stanford vs. Nebraska Stanford vs. Oklahoma State
Texas
(Big 12 vs. Navy) Iowa State vs. Navy Kansas vs. Navy
Roady's Humanitarian
(WAC vs. Mountain West) Idaho vs. UCLA Idaho vs. Wyoming
Valero Alamo
(Big Ten vs. Big 12) Northwestern vs. Oklahoma Michigan State vs. Kansas State

Oklahoma State doesn't have the fan support to warrant a selection over a team like Penn State.

Don't worry, OSU won't beat OU. You can take that to the bank.

This is true.....if OKLA ST beats OKLAHOMA(and cincy and tcu remain undefeated).........OKLA ST gets the nod over Boise State.

If OKLA STATE losses, BOISE STATE is still not in becasue then IOWA would move into the at-large BCS bid, or at least would be the favorite.

Boise needs TCU or CINCY to lose if they want to entertain a BCS BOWL BID.

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/7704/oklahoma-state-removed-from-bcs-at-large-pool

Oklahoma State removed from BCS at-large pool

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By Tim Griffin

It's not really much of a surprise, but Oklahoma State's 27-0 loss to Oklahoma last week has pushed the Cowboys out of the BCS at-large pool.

Several bowl sources have indicated that the Cowboys are set to play Mississippi in the Jan. 2 Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas.

It means that the Big 12 has only Nebraska and Texas among BCS-eligible teams.

If Texas wins, it will likely advance to the BCS championship game against the winner of the SEC title game for the national championship on Jan. 7 in Pasadena, Calif.

But if Nebraska wins, the Cornhuskers would receive the Big 12's automatic berth to the Fiesta Bowl and the Longhorns likely would be a BCS at-large team likely headed for the Orange Bowl.

Here's a list of the remaining teams still in the hunt for BCS games.

Teams that are alive because they are playing for conference championships this week include:

ACC: Clemson, Georgia Tech

Big East: Cincinnati, Pittsburgh

Big 12: Nebraska, Texas

Pac-10: Oregon, Oregon State

SEC: Alabama, Florida

In addition to those 10 teams and Big Ten champion Ohio State, the pool of teams remaining under consideration also includes:

Boise State, Brigham Young, Iowa, Penn State, Texas Christian, Virginia Tech.