Sports Forecasting Oklahoma

Their wants are similar to our wants. Basically, we want fewer national contenders. For ou, they need a lot of people to have a loss and rank worse than them. For Texas, we just need to make sure that we aren't the 3rd ranked team if there are 3 or more undefeateds.
 
Not much to argue with there, except OU does want BYU to do well. It's pretty much stating the obvious that you want everyone that you play to do well. And, everyone you don't to lose.

That said, OU has its work cut out for them just to win the rest of there games. Again, the same thing can be said for any team.
 
This will be a fun article to come back and look at in 4 weeks after OU's beaten Miami and Texas on the way to their next BCS bowl win.
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I was having a little fun with the elusive "BCS bowl win". Tongue in cheek.
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Hope you Fight-Song Thieves out there enjoy the ridicule you get about this. You've earned it. If you think there's an iota chance that you sneak into national championship game this year with one loss (even early) over other teams with one loss after you've lost 5 straight BCS games and 3 national title games in a row, you're delusional. But I've never quite understood the sooner hubris either, so maybe that's on me.
 
Just stratch everything arieshorn just wrote. He doesn't understand that it doesn't matter who loses or wins on OU's schedule. There is a pecking order in college football with OU, tOSU, and Notre Dame and everything will be justified why they are playing in the national championship if they only have even a pretty good team. Then they get exposed at the championship game and it's another season wasted as far as who is numero uno.
 
No real revelations there. OU has a pretty salty schedule and if a Sooner fan had to pick one game on their schedule to lose this season and still contend for the MNC, it would have been BYU. (losing by one point, doesn't hurt either)

Lose early once and be sure it is a pretty good team.

OU has to win out now and just maybe things would fall into place. I still think an undefeated Penn St would stay ahead of them though. Voters are in no mood to give OU the benefit of the doubt these days.

With Texas' schedule, Texas did not have the benefit to afford even a first game loss. It sucks, but this is the hand Texas decided to play; just as OU is playing the hand they decided to play.
 
ou could be 1-11 and make it to the BCS championship, so I don't see why they're worried.
 
our NC hopes were being discussed on another board today, and basically all the points above were brought up. it's pretty amazing it is even possible for us to go based on the egg we layed at the deathstar.

however, it certainly is possible, and to some extent we control our destiny. we don't even need a whole lot of help really. we just need to win out.... and have a couple of teams lose (penn st, etc.).
 
He's wrong about BYU-Florida State. That game does matter for SOS which factors into all the computers. SOS is huge. For example last year if Arkansas goes 10-2 and Cincinnati goes 4-8 instead of vise versa, it's possible that Oklahoma never plays in the We Lost to Texas Bowl.
 
OU will not win out.

And I have a funny feeling that Miami's bubble is busted this weekend in Blacksburg. Then they turn around and give OU another loss. Just a hunch though.
 
The original analysis contains quite a bit of wishful thinking. How is USC "o-u-t out" but OU is right there in the thick of things?

Pretty absurd to claim those two things in the same breath. USC lost a road game to a pretty good team. OU lost a "neutral" game a couple hundred miles from campus (with 90% OU fans) to a pretty good team. Does the original writer really think that BYU is head-and-shoulders better than Washington? Washington took undefeated LSU to the wire in a game that wasn't decided until 2 minutes left. BYU got crushed at home by 1-loss FSU.
 
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