Texas or Oklahoma? Fox reveals BCS standings this afternoon


As part of its deal in which it pays around $80 million annually, Fox gets to reveal the Bowl Championship Series standings each week. Today’s announcement has more suspense than any this season.

The Big 12 championship game’s South Division representive — Texas, Oklahoma or Texas Tech — will be determined by today’s BCS standings, which Fox will reveal during its NFL postgame show, scheduled between 4 and 4:30 p.m. (expect the announcement late in the show).

Update: Here are the BCS standings released today:

  1. Alabama (12-0) .971
  2. Oklahoma (11-1) .935
  3. Texas (11-1) .922
  4. Florida (11-1) .885
  5. Southern Cal (10-1) .807
  6. Utah (12-0) .784
  7. Texas Tech (11-1) .780
  8. Penn State (11-1) .737
  9. Boise State (12-0) .703
10. Ohio State (10-2) .634

Categories: TV
Pete Dougherty

6 Responses

  1. Ron says:

    Texas should go to the Big 12 championship and heres why. If Oklahoma and Mizzou play, then Texas will have beaten both teams. That’s just computer madness. And for all those screaming for a playoff, which the ultimate decision is determined by wins and losses on the field, Texas would have the upper hand in a playoff system. So to send OU would nullify everything that a playoff system stands for which is to let the players determine it on the field, not in some computer database.

  2. lb says:

    I wonder if that guy is from Texas? oklahoma is clearly the dominant team late in the season. and ou beat two other top 20 teams in non conference play,……tcu and Cincinnati…..who happens to be playing in a bcs bowl this year……..enough said. ou will jump tx due to strength of schedule and playing a top 15 team on the road to seal the deal…….see you all in Kansas city

  3. Bill says:

    It’s foolish to look at Oklahoma purely from a high scoring team perspective, AKA “hottest team” at the end of the season. They are an excellent team… they are a very HOT team… but defense wins games too, so don’t lose sight of match-ups that might be able to hold that OU offense.
    Given that perspective, the way they may have scored so outrageously the whole season doesn’t mean that a well balanced defense-offense team like Texas doesn’t match up. Texas beat both OU and OS with a clear record of wins in the same conference. Texas also finished a beaten Aggie team with the first string removed instead of adding another 10 points to the scoreboard. Isn’t 49 to 9 a decent enough win? Or are the standings based purely on point mania irrespective of a concrete win? What happened to class? Are we going to call the Texas coach an idiot a year from now for not bleeding the score?
    When the polls come out today I hope the standing reflect the earlier efforts by Texas and a completely decent finish. The routes at Kansas and Texas A&M were no less slouch to the 11-1 record overall.

  4. Bobby says:

    Come on Ron. You must be setting around the house in burnt orange boxers. You seem to forget the is another team in the tie that beat Texas. What about Tech?

    Doesn’t matter – look at the school’s web-sites and football schedules. The Sooners have the date on there schedule Tech and UT’s schedules say “nothing scheduled”. I think that might tell the story.

    Which team beat more “Ranked” teams? If the Sooners are going, it is the right choice.

  5. Jack says:

    Let the Texas Crybabies cry. Even the Sooner Fans don’t the idea that the BCS is telling who will play in the Big 12 Champ game. But it has happend so eaither get ride of the BCS or shutup.

  6. John says:

    You can’t argue Texas and Oklahoma and not mention Texas Tech. Texas Tech beat Texas, Texas beat Oklahoma. Oklahoma beat Texas Tech. This is a three way tie, not a head to head tie where the Texas victory at the Cotton Bowl would have made the difference.

    If you rank Texas ahead of Oklahoma, fine, but then you have to rank Texas Tech ahead of Texas. How come the Texas fand don’t bring that up when they fly over Oklahoma’s stadium with 45-35 banners. Where was the 39-33 banner?

    Please be fair, here. This is a three way tie and it is the Big 12s fault for not coming up with their own way of breaking ties. The BCS was designed to eliminate pre-arranged bow matchups and to get #1 and #2 to play each other in the BCS Championship Game (don;t ever call it a national championship game, because it’s not).

    And, stop the playoff talk. If there was a playoff, the Big 12 would not get three teams in. There are 11 Division I football conferences and all 11 would have to get bids, just like the MAAC and America East gets bids in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Do you think Albany is better than the ninth placr Big East team? No, but in a tournament, all conferences would have to be represented face a lawsuit or action by United States Congress.

    An eight team playoff cannot work (sorry, Mr. Obama) because there are 11 conferences and 11 will never equal 8. If they had a 12 team playoff, there would be room for one at-large team; and in a 16 team affair, there would be five at-large teams.

    But, mark my words, there will NOT be a college football playoff anytime soon. College presidents and most colleges like the idea of 34 bowl games, 68 teams and 34 programs end their season with a wind.

    Nobody cares about the college basketball regular season, and after the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, interest wanes. Siena could go 22-8 every year, but if they don’t win the MAAC Tournament, they will call the season unsuccessful. Do we want 9-3 football teams sho win a bowl game to end up 10-3 to be called unsuccessful because they didn’t make the playoffs.

    That’s why there won’t be a playoff in the near and probably distant future.