Could Kansas pull an "OU, 2003"?

[The Maestro]

What is LSU were to lose today or in the SEC title game?

What if WVU lost to UConn?

Let's say Kansas beats Missouri and then loses a tough game to us.

Why would there 12-1 not be sufficient enough to get them into the national title game like we did in 2003? Who are you gonna move ahead of them?

It seems to me that Kansas-Ohio State would end up being the matchup.

Just another notch in this crazy year.

[TheUnnamedSooner]

possibly, but didn't they tweak the bcs after OU did that in '03 or something?

[Boomerbrad]

If KU loses, they'll get hammered in the computers...

[chad]

possibly, but didn't they tweak the bcs after OU did that in '03 or something?
I don't think it was after OU, but I do believe it was after last years ordeal with OSU v Mich rematch.

[limey_sooner]

Its a shame that to do that they'll probably have to go through OU. I'd be cheering for em to do it otherwise.

[TripleOption14]

No there is NO way they can. I'm pretty sure they made a rule the following year after the OU thing. You have to win your conf. in order to play for a NC.

[Socrefbek]

No there is NO way they can. I'm pretty sure they made a rule the following year after the OU thing. You have to win your conf. in order to play for a NC.

[Notre Dame][hairGel] Thats Not True !!!! [/Notre Dame]

[bluedogok]

Yep, I seem to recall some sort of provision after the OU thing that the participants in the BCS title game must be a conference champion....unless you are Notre Dame........

[sooneron]

Wouldn't KU need to be proclaimed the greatest team evar first?

[Sooner98]

I think a lot of the pollsters have been waiting for a reason to not keep KU near the top, due to their weak schedule. A loss to OU would give them their reason to drop KU like a rock in the polls.

[sendbaht]

"You have to win your conf. in order to play for a NC." This is true.

[GrapevineSooner]

No such Conference Champion provision exists in the BCS. The biggest change that came after the 2003 season was the decrease in impact on the polls by the computers.

IIRC, computer rankings made up half of the total BCS ranking with the AP and coaches polls making up the other half.

Now, it's split three ways with the Harris poll and Coaches poll accounting for 2/3 of the BCS formula.

[Frozen Sooner]

+1

There's no provision that you have to win your conference to play in the BWNN. At all. Period.

[tigepilot]

Yeah, common guys. Are you forgetting all the talk last year as to whether Michigan or Florida would get to go to the NC game? If there was such a provision there's not such talk.

The change was stronger emphasis on human polls. What let OU get into the NC game that year was that OU has such a strong computer rating that year that it was said even before the K-State game that OU would probably lose and still get to New Orleans. OU lost and proved them right. Kansas is in no such situation this year where they are gauranteed before the game. It does seem difficult to understand that human pollsters will drop Kansas below another 2 loss team though and on this year that might still give them a chance.

[AZSOONER]

No.

[OUstud]

"You have to win your conf. in order to play for a NC." This is true.

NU, 2001...