Carroll shuns BCS ranking
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USC coach Pete Carroll prepared his arsenal of bland comments for the first Bowl Championship Series rankings Monday, until he saw Oklahoma ranked No.
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Despite reports to the contrary, Texas isn&#39;t out of the Bowl Championship Series just yet. In the BCS rankings released Monday, the Longhorns sit in fifth - one position away from an automatic bid.
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The No. 1 ranked team in the annual The Associated Press' preseason college baskteball poll. (x-denotes eventual national champion):
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The school doesn&#39;t get the top recruits, doesn&#39;t get the major bowl games it believes is its birthright, and doesn&#39;t get the fact that the football program is just not a major power anymore.
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McLEAN, Va. (SportsTicker) - Wake Forest took over the top spot in the USA Today/ESPN coaches poll but North Carolina and Arizona were the biggest losers.
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Architects of the BCS huddled behind closed doors Friday to start hashing out next season's formula for determining which teams play for the national title in the wake of the AP's demand that its poll no longer be a factor.
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The Texas Longhorns might want to forget about the Bowl Championship Series. It looks like the BCS has all but forgotten them.
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Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis, who built his coaching reputation as a play-caller while helping the New England Patriots win three Super Bowls, won't be calling plays for the Fighting Irish next season.
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Gary Crowton and Pete Carroll seem headed in opposite directions. Carroll's Southern California team is the defending national champion and top-ranked team in the country, while Crowton and Brigham Young are hoping to avoid a third straight losing season.
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With its toughest test yet just days away, Boston College moved into second-place behind Ohio State in the BCS standings Sunday. Don't look back BC, third-place LSU gained ground this week and two Pac-10 teams are primed to pounce if the teams ahead of them falter.
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Southern California and Miami are 1-2 in the initial BCS Standings, with Oklahoma third despite being ranked second in both the ESPN/USA Today coaches&#39; poll and AP media poll.
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Dennis Erickson, Butch Davis and Steve Spurrier -- each of whom ran national championship-caliber programs as college coaches -- have been busts in the NFL. Meantime, Pete Carroll -- a relative washout in NFL ranks -- is on the verge of coaching USC to back-to-back national titles.
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Editor&#39;s note: Even before the Associated Press told Bowl Championship Series officials not to include the AP poll in its calculations any longer, the arguments over how to determine a national college football champion have raged.
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While Southern California took the top spot in the debut of the reworked BCS standings Monday, Miami was second. The Hurricanes edged Oklahoma, which is a strong No.
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But at times, this desperate push to move into the top two in the BCS standings and earn a place in the national championship game starts to sound more like politics than football.
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Mack Brown and the BCS have been exonerated by the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Stunned at getting knocked out of the Rose Bowl by the Texas Longhorns, the No.
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As happy as Utah coach Urban Meyer was to hear his team was ranked seventh in the first Bowl Championship Series standings, he didn&#39;t want to talk about it much.