With everything on the line for a shot at the BCS national championship, three nation's top four college teams-Florida, Texas and Oklahoma-made their case in College Football Week 14 action.
two big questions are: 1) Should Florida win big money and protect its No. 4 BCS ranking? and 2) a statement victory number 3-ranked Oklahoma Sooners lift over No. 2-ranked Texas and the Big 12 championship game with Missouri?
of Texas, which beat Oklahoma 45-35 earlier in the season at a neutral place, polished by the unranked 4-8 Texas A & M Aggies 49-9 at home to set the table. Undefeated Alabama, then recorded the 12th straight victory at home shutting unranked Auburn 36-0 to keep the number of 1-points and a possible date in the national championship game. Florida followed suit on the way to getting other than number 23-ranked (AP) Florida 45-15.
At the end of the show put on Saturday night and Oklahoma hit the road and performed on cue, turning back No. 11-ranked Oklahoma State 61-41. Last week, Oklahoma is transferred, no. 2 Texas Tech 65-21. Saturday's victory over his rival in the state was his fourth straight 60 - point-plus pobijediti.Sooners' Sam Bradford completed 30-of-44 passes 370 meters and 4 touchdowns, then added another score on a 1-yard run.
Oklahoma need to be a small eight thousandths of a point for Texas in the BCS tables to earn a place against Missouri. When the new BCS tables were published on Sunday afternoon, Oklahoma was overjoyed, overtaking across Texas say the number 2 spot with Texas No. 3 and No. 4 Florida.
And now finally play in Week 15 begins. No. 1 Alabama travels to Gainesville to face No. 2 Florida Gators for the SEC Championship (AP Top 25 Poll rankings), and No. 19 Missouri travels to Norman challenge to No. 4 Oklahoma in Big 12 championship.
Oklahoma-Missouri contest was damaged big time as Missouri suffered a miserable loss unranked Kansas, 40-37, over the weekend, leaving the Tigers with a 9-3 record and looks really pathetic to South Texas Division 11-1, 11-1 Texas Tech and 9-3 Oklahoma State, all the better teams who wanted to be in Big 12 showdown.
If Florida beat Alabama and Oklahoma beating Missouri, and most experts think will happen, then Florida will meet in Oklahoma BCS national championship game. If Alabama beat Florida and Oklahoma beat Missouri, then it would be Alabama and Oklahoma. If either Florida or Alabama win, and Missouri upset Oklahoma, Texas, would then face Florida or Alabama.
regular season is now finished in the AP and No. 3 Texas, No. 6 Penn State, No. 7 Utah, No. 10 Ohio State, No. 14 TCU, No. 19 Brigham Young (BYU), No. 20 and No. 21 Northwestern Michigan State. All of these teams will play in a bowl game somewhere.
Other AP Top 25 team that won this weekend were No. 5 Southern California at home over Notre Dame 38-3, No. 7 Texas Tech at home over Baylor 35-28, No. 9 Boise State at home over Fresno State 61-10, No. 15 Ball State at home over Western Michigan 45-22, and No. 16 Cincinnati at home over Syracuse 30-10.
No. 18 Georgia Tech on the road in a shocking state rival No. 13 Georgia 45-42 in a barn burner, No. 19 Oregon on the road over No. 17 Oregon State, 65-38, to knock the Beavers out of a possible Rose Bowl appearance, No. 20 Boston College at home over Maryland 28-21 and No. 25 Mississippi at home, shutting out the state of Mississippi state rivals, 45-0.
Other games that caught my attention were sneaking Pittsburgh at West Virginia 19-15 give the Panthers their eighth victory of the season, dropping the unnecessary loss of Buffalo Kent State 24-21, Eastern Michigan (3-9) upsetting Central Michigan (8-4), 56-52 in a sad display of defense, Arkansas slides on LSU 31-30, Rice is working hard to would outlast Houston 56-42 in the second view is a little embarrassing defense on both sides, and the 6-6 victory over Florida Atlantic Florida International 4-7 in overtime, 57-50, in a game where no defense is played.
The other big game this Saturday as No. 18 Boston College to travel to unranked Virginia Tech Atlantic Coast with the winner earning the title of an automatic bid to the BCS game. No. 8 Penn State, Big Ten champion, seems to be headed in the BCS Rose Bowl.
East Carolina and Tulsa will face off for the title of Conference USA. Undefeated No. 12 Ball State (12-0), difficulty with Buffalo for the middle-American Championships. No. 7 Utah won the Mountain West championship, and will probably get a BCS bowl spot. No. 5 Southern California beat UCLA to finish the Pac 10 title and automatic BCS bowl bid for 7 year in a row.
Elsewhere, Arkansas State and Troy fight for the Sun Belt title and undefeated No. 9 Boise State (12-0) has already won the championship, but the Western Athletic will probably not get a BCS bowl bid.
After Saturday's action, bowl officials will move in as a hot knife through butter to determine bowl bids and set the stage for the Bowl mania during the holidays for the cap this season college football.
Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley
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