Official BCS Bowl Championship Series Standings Rankings

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The BCS has spoken and the tie has been broken.

By virtue of its second-place showing in this week's standings, Oklahoma has emerged from a three-way tie atop the Big 12 South and will play Missouri in the Big 12 championship game.

Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Texas had finished the regular season with identical 7-1 conference records. And since each had lost once to one of its fellow division leaders, BCS standings became the ultimate tiebreaker.

The Sooners' 61-41 dismantling of Oklahoma State Saturday impressed the computers enough to allow them to move up one spot, just ahead of the Longhorns.

That probably doesn't sit too well in Austin, especially since the Longhorns beat the Sooners earlier this season at a neutral site, 45-35.

But since then, Oklahoma has been steadily gaining in the polls (both human and computer). They've won six straight, scoring no fewer than 45 points during that run and topping the 60-point plateau in each of the last four games.

As a result, the Sooners now appear to control their own fate, needing only a win over the Tigers to advance to the BCS title game against the winner of the SEC title game between No. 1 Alabama and No. 4 Florida.

While Texas is being penalized for making the mistake of losing their one game later in the season than the Sooners, the Longhorns are still in a position to make it to the BCS title game; Texas currently sits at No. 3 and could conceivably move up into one of the top two spots should Missouri spring the upset of Oklahoma in the Big 12 title game.

In another BCS oddity, there are currently four teams from outside the six BCS conferences currently residing in the top 12 in the standings -- Utah (No. 6), Boise State (No. 9), TCU (No. 11) and Ball State (No. 12). According to the BCS rules, only one non-BCS team is guaranteed a berth by virtue of finishing that high in the standings, which means Boise State, TCU and Ball State are likely going to be on the losing end of a fight with Ohio State for an

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The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, Inc. 433 East Las Colinas Blvd., Ste. 1130 Irving, TX 75039 972.556.1000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 30, 2008 CONTACTS: Mike Finn, Associate Commissioner, Atlantic Coast Conference Matthew Sign, Chief Operating Officer, The National Football Foundation BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES STANDINGS (Games through Nov. 30, 2008) BCS Standings (Through Nov. 30, 2008) Harris Interactive BCS Average Previous Week Rank Points % Rank USA Today Points % Computer Rankings Avg. Computer Anderson Colley & Hester Billingsley Matrix Massey Rank Sagarin Wolfe % 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Alabama (12-0) Oklahoma (11-1) Texas (11-1) Florida (11-1) So. California (10-1) Utah (12-0) Texas Tech (11-1) Penn State (11-1) Boise State (12-0) Ohio State (10-2) Texas Christian (10-2) Ball State (12-0) Cincinnati (10-2) Oklahoma State (9-3) Georgia Tech (9-3) Georgia (9-3) Boston College (9-3) Brigham Young (10-2) Oregon (9-3) Missouri (9-3) Michigan State (9-3) Northwestern (9-3) Pittsburgh (8-3) Florida State (8-4) Virginia Tech (8-4) .9713 .9351 .9223 .8851 .8076 .7844 .7805 .7373 .7034 .6340 .5633 .5306 .4831 .4276 .4046 .3311 .3202 .3142 .3041 .2818 .2550 .1216 .1012 .0768 .0573 1 3 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 12 22 11 21 18 23 13 19 24 25 20 NR 1 4 3 2 5 7 8 6 9 10 12 11 13 14 16 20 19 17 15 18 21 22 23 29 27 2815 2569 2575 2619 2378 2111 2090 2177 1937 1856 1502 1526 1425 1217 1065 833 834 990 1076 896 688 414 346 30 71 .9965 .9094 .9115 .9271 .8418 .7473 .7398 .7706 .6857 .6570 .5317 .5402 .5044 .4308 .3770 .2949 .2952 .3504 .3809 .3172 .2435 .1465 .1225 .0106 .0251 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 6 9 10 11 13 12 15 16 19 20 18 14 17 21 22 23 29 26 1521 1397 1396 1385 1298 1153 1116 1176 1044 999 836 765 770 613 590 440 435 461 658 470 414 333 154 15 41 .9974 .9161 .9154 .9082 .8511 .7561 .7318 .7711 .6846 .6551 .5482 .5016 .5049 .4020 .3869 .2885 .2852 .3023 .4315 .3082 .2715 .2184 .1010 .0098 .0269 3 1 2 6 8 5 4 9 7 11 10 12 15 T-13 T-13 16 17 18 23 20 19 NR T-24 21 22 25 22 23 20 17 24 21 18 19 16 15 13 12 7 10 14 9 6 0 8 11 1 5 4 0 25 24 22 23 21 19 20 16 18 17 13 15 9 12 11 10 3 14 7 8 5 0 1 0 0 23 24 25 22 19 21 20 17 18 16 12 15 14 7 10 13 9 6 4 5 11 0 8 3 2 21 25 23 20 19 22 24 16 18 11 17 12 9 13 15 8 14 5 0 4 1 0 0 10 7 22 25 24 20 18 21 23 16 19 13 17 9 11 15 14 8 12 6 0 4 2 0 0 10 7 22 25 24 19 17 21 23 18 20 14 16 15 12 13 9 10 8 11 6 5 7 0 2 4 3 .920 .980 .940 .820 .730 .850 .870 .670 .740 .590 .610 .550 .440 .450 .450 .410 .380 .290 .100 .220 .250 .000 .080 .210 .120 POLL EXPLANATION & ABOUT THE BCS: The Harris Interactive Poll, USA Today Coaches Poll and computer rankings each comprise one-third of the BCS Standings. To derive the three percentages, each team is assigned an inverse point total (25 for No. 1, 24 for No. 2, etc.) The two poll percentages are calculated by dividing each team’s point total by a maximum 2825 possible points (Harris) and 1525 possible points (USA Today). The computer rankings percentage is calculated by dropping the highest and lowest ranking for each team and then dividing the remaining total by 100 (the maximum possible points). The BCS Average is calculated by averaging the percentage totals of the Harris Interactive Poll, USA Today Poll, and computer rankings. The teams’ BCS Averages are ranked to produce the BCS Standings. The six computer ranking providers are Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, Jeff Sagarin and Peter Wolfe. Each computer ranking provider accounts for schedule strength within its formula. The BCS is a five-game arrangement for post-season college football that is managed by the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) conferences and Notre Dame. Its purpose is to match the two top-ranked teams in the final BCS standings in a national championship game and to create competitive match-ups in the four other BCS bowl games. For more information, visit http://www.bcsfootball.org. The No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the Dec. 7 BCS standings will play in the FedEx BCS National Championship on Jan. 8, 2009 in Miami Gardens, Fla. The winner of the game will be presented the American Football Coaches Association National Championship Trophy. WWW.BCSFOOTBALL.ORG