BCS shockers: Texas in Fiesta, Pitt to Rose
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As expected, Auburn is the odd team out of the BCS national championship game, and Texas has bumped Cal out of the Rose Bowl. In addition to the Longhorns&#39; last-minute jump, there was another shocker: Texas
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After a maddening and unpredictable season, Ohio State and LSU almost inexplicably emerged as the top two teams in the BCS and will play for the title Monday night.
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&quot;The purpose of the BCS is to match the nation&#39;s top two college football teams in an end-of-season bowl game for the National Championship.
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By Perryn Keys, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 10--AUSTIN -- They braved the roads, battled the massive crowds, took in the atmosphere and even walked all over the University of Texas campus looking for overpriced tickets -- just to cheer on their beloved Ohio State Buckeyes.
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Pittsburgh quarterback Tyler Palko isn&#39;t worrying too much about being a huge underdog against No. 5 Utah on Saturday in the Fiesta Bowl.
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Urban Meyer of Utah and Walt Harris of Pittsburgh will coach the final game at their respective schools in the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday night before moving on to new jobs.
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Fall is in the air. Texas is coming to town. The Big 12 is up for grabs.
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Utah used an unstoppable offense to break through the walls surrounding college football's big bowls. Now the unbeaten Utes are expected to do more than merely win the Fiesta Bowl. They are supposed to win big over Big East champion Pittsburgh on Saturday night.
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When the Texas Longhorns are winning, their fans proudly display the &quot;Hook&#39;em Horns&quot; hand signal. If Texas loses its fifth consecutive game to rival Oklahoma today, Longhorns coach Mack Brown will hope he&#39;s not getting the &quot;Hook.
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This hardly seemed possible when Pitt needed frantic rallies to overcome Division I-AA Furman or Big East cellar dweller Temple. Or when the Panthers could barely move the ball against Ohio &#151; not Ohio State, but Ohio U.
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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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The fiesta hadn&#39;t even begun, and already people were asking Urban Meyer, the life of the party, if it was over. That, as we&#39;ve come to learn, is the price of success in college football these days.
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Blame him, Mack Brown says. Texas hasn&#39;t beaten Oklahoma in four years, hasn&#39;t made the Sooners so much as sweat in a couple of those games.
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OK, so the battle for the Bowl Championship Series national championship between No. 1 Southern Cal and No. 2 Oklahoma was a competitive flop. The Trojans' 55-19 victory over the Sooners in Tuesday night's Orange Bowl settled the issue of who's No. 1, which is what the BCS is all about. Isn't it?
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The real drama of the latest BCS standings -- the last before the final rankings are issued Sunday -- was the razor-thin margin separating No. 4 California and No. 5 Texas.
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As if Ohio State at Texas wasn't already a big enough game, now it's No. 1 vs. No. 2. The Longhorns moved up one spot to No. 2 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, right behind the top-ranked Buckeyes.
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Actually, I just finished looking at the final BCS standings and could use a boost. More to the point, I could use an aspirin. So let me get this straight: Pittsburgh loses to Nebraska and Connecticut, narrowly