USC and Miami Atop First BCS Standings
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Southern California took the top spot Monday in the season's first Bowl Championship Series standings, but surprisingly Miami is ahead of Oklahoma in a close race for the second spot.
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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't want to talk about it much.
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Southern California is No. 1 in the polls and the BCS standings. The computers prefer Oklahoma. Auburn's victories over Georgia and Tennessee might be the season's two most impressive performances. The Trojans, Sooners and Tigers are all 11-0, but the Bowl Championship Series can only accommodate two teams in its national title game.
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LOGAN, Utah - A perfect record probably isn&#39;t going to be enough to get Utah into the Bowl Championship Series. The unbeaten Utes slipped one spot to seventh in the BCS standings yesterday, a drop that could
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The new Bowl Championship Series formula was supposed to put the power back into the pollsters&#39; hands. But when the inaugural BCS standings came out Monday, the No.
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USC and Oklahoma finish atop the final BCS standings and will meet in the Orange Bowl in a title game that might not produce a unanimous national champion.
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Shakedown Saturday came and went. Nothing changed. So the Bowl Championship Series has its annual nightmare. When the final BCS standings are released today, the USC Trojans (12-0) and Oklahoma Sooners (12-0) are expected to be matched in the Jan.
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It&#39;s still a USC/Oklahoma one two punch in the latest Bowl Championship Series poll. In fact, Oklahoma strengthened its lead over third place Auburn in this week&#39;s BCS poll; the Tigers were idle last week and have a huge game this week with Georgia.
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Despite its dip in the Associated Press poll, Cal held steady at No. 4 in the BCS standings released Monday. Utah did not fare as well.
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It didn't take long. First poll, first controversy. Or at least mini-controversy. If you had taken the wisdom of the two human polls, the first Bowl Championship Series rankings that were released yesterday should have been a no-brainer.
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When the college football season began, the University of Southern California was No. 1 - almost by acclamation.
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Let the arguments begin. The first Bowl Championship Series rankings are due out in a few weeks and the number of unbeaten teams is shrinking rapidly.
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The BCS system that was supposed to be fixed by humans was, once again, chop-blocked by computers. Miami, a team ranked no higher than third in either of the major human polls, debuted at No.
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Southern California and Oklahoma finished atop the final Bowl Championship Series standings Sunday and will meet in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 4 in a title game that might not produce a unanimous national champion.
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_ Southern California and Oklahoma remain one and two in the Bowl Championship Series standings released Monday, as the top five teams remain unchanged.
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Avoid a rematch. Stronger schedule. Conference champion. Those were the main reasons cited Monday by many poll voters for jumping Florida over Michigan on their final ballots, setting up a Gators-Buckeyes matchup in the BCS national title game Jan. 8.
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Southern California is the new No. 2. The Trojans advanced one spot to overtake Michigan in The Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday, a day after their 44-24 victory over Notre Dame.