CFN has it right

[Flagstaffsooner]

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1. Florida (13-1) Final Score: 28.98
And it's not even close. Only three teams had seven wins over teams that finished with winning records; Florida had nine, and almost had ten with Hawaii finishing at .500 after a bowl loss. The point differential score was No. 1 by a long shot, with Oklahoma finishing with a 3.73 score and Florida at 4.3. The great schedule, with the wins over all the good teams, doesn't even include Tennessee or Arkansas in the final score. This was the best team in the country that had the best season by a huge margin.

2007 Score: 16.90 2007 Ranking: 14
Quality Wins: 9. Miami, LSU, Kentucky, Georgia, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Florida State, Alabama, Oklahoma
Elite Win Score: 2. Alabama, Oklahoma
Bad Loss Score: 0 ... Bad Wins: 1. Citadel ... Elite Loss: 0
Point Differential Score: 4.3 ... Winning Percentage: 0.93

2. Oklahoma (12-1) Final Score: 25.59
The Sooners managed to finish No. 2 because of its offense, that set the record for a season with 716 points, to be the difference by a razor-thin margin over Texas. Don't discount all the great wins over terrific TCU and Cincinnati teams, to go along with the wins over Texas Tech, Missouri and Nebraska. Remember, at least theoretically, a team could still be No. 2 after losing the championship game.

2007 Score: 22.12 2007 Ranking: 3
Quality Wins: 7. Cincinnati, TCU, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Missouri
Elite Win Score: 2. TCU, Texas Tech
Bad Loss Score: 0 ... Bad Wins: 2. Chattanooga, Washington ... Elite Loss: 1. at Texas tech
Point Differential Score: 3.72 ... Winning Percentage: 0.86

3. Texas (12-1) Final Score: 25.24
It might not seem fair, but since these rankings are based on the seasons the teams had, and with Oklahoma winning the Big 12 title, Texas barely finishes in the No. 3 spot. While the seven wins over bowl teams was impressive, also worthy of note are the Bad Wins ... there aren't any. The least impressive win on the board was against UTEP; that's not all that bad.

2007 Score: 16.63 2007 Ranking: 16
Quality Wins: 7. Florida Atlantic, Rice, Oklahoma, Missouri, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Ohio State
Elite Win Score: 2. Oklahoma, Ohio State
Bad Loss Score: 0 ... Bad Wins: 0 ... Elite Loss: 1. at Texas Tech
Point Differential Score: 3.07 ... Winning Percentage: 0.92

4. Utah (13-0) Final Score: 23.56
In the end, the Utes weren't even close to the top three, finishing well behind Texas in the final standings. The four Bad Wins, having one less Quality Win, and the Point Differential Score, the third lowest of anyone in the top ten and the third lowest in the top six, proved costly. Even so, there was a win over an Oregon State team that beat USC, and it's hard to argue against an unbeaten season with wins over TCU and Alabama.

2007 Score: 12.66 2007 Ranking: 36
Quality Wins: 6. Air Force, Oregon State, Colorado State, TCU, BYU, Alabama
Elite Win Score: 2. TCU, Alabama
Bad Loss Score: 0 ... Bad Wins: 4. Michigan, Utah State, Weber State, San Diego State ... Elite Loss: 0.
Point Differential Score: 2.56 ... Winning Percentage: 1.00

5. USC (12-1) Final Score: 23.13
The Trojans finished outside of the top four because they had only one Elite Win: Penn State. Otherwise, they were this close to getting past Utah, but weren't even close to being in the top three, because there weren't enough wins over top teams. Playing in a conference with half the teams coming up with clunker seasons didn't help considering all the bowl teams Florida ended up facing.

2007 Score: 19.51 2007 Ranking: 8
Quality Wins: 6. Ohio State, Oregon, Arizona, California, Notre Dame, Penn State
Elite Win Score: 1. Penn State
Bad Loss Score: 0 ... Bad Wins: 2. Washington State, Washington ... Elite Loss: 0.
Point Differential Score: 3.71 ... Winning Percentage: 0.92

6. Boise State (12-1) Final Score: 21.42
The Broncos should probably be lower considering they lost to TCU by one in the Poinsettia Bowl, but they beat five bowl teams and came up with a great win at Oregon that put them just outside of top five. The Point Differential Score was tremendous thanks to a scoring defense that was the third best in America. Outside of a late rally from Nevada and the 37-32 win over the Ducks, no one else came close to beating Chris Petersen's club until the bowl game.

2007 Score: 14.97 2007 Ranking: 23
Quality Wins: 5. Oregon, Louisiana Tech, Southern Miss, Nevada, Fresno State
Elite Win Score: 1. at Oregon
Bad Loss Score: 0 ... Bad Wins: 4. Idaho State, New Mexico State, Utah State, Idaho ... Elite Loss: 1. TCU
Point Differential Score: 3.25 ... Winning Percentage: 0.92

7. Alabama (12-2) Final Score: 20.08
Remember, Bama was supposed to be good, and then next year, possibly 2010, was when it was supposed to be BCS Championship-caliber good. Of course, closing out with losses to Florida and Utah ended things with a thud, but this was still a breakthrough season with a dominant win at Georgia and nice wins over Clemson and Ole Miss. However, there weren't all that many great wins considering the most of the SEC was so mediocre, and the non-conference season, outside of the opener against Clemson, was hardly challenging.

2007 Score: 11.20 2007 Ranking: 44
Quality Wins: 4. Clemson, Georgia, Ole Miss, LSU
Elite Win Score: 1. at Georgia
Bad Loss Score: 0 ... Bad Wins: 2. Tulane, Western Kentucky ... Elite Loss: 2. Florida, Utah
Point Differential Score: 2.22 ... Winning Percentage: 0.86

8. TCU (11-2) Final Score: 19.50
One of the nation's most dominating defenses was the difference in a fantastic year. There was a 35-10 loss to Oklahoma, but the pass rush did a better job than anyone else of getting to Sam Bradford, and the 35 points allowed tied Texas for the fewest given up to the Sooners before the BCS Championship. The other loss was at Utah, helped by a few missed kicks. There was a stretch of six games when TCU allowed seven points in five of the games (the OU loss was the other), including a 32-7 trashing of BYU. The 17-16 win over Boise State in the Poinsettia Bowl put a great cap on another great season for Gary Patterson's underappreciated program.

2007 Score: 9.83 2007 Ranking: 53
Quality Wins: 4. Colorado State, BYU, Air Force, Boise State
Elite Win Score: 1. Boise State
Bad Loss Score: 0 ... Bad Wins: 3. Stephen F. Austin, SMU, San Diego State ... Elite Loss: 2. at Oklahoma, at Utah
Point Differential Score: 2.9 ... Winning Percentage: 0.85

9. Texas Tech (11-2) Final Score: 19.42
All the points and the slew of decent Big 12 wins, along with the season-changing victory over Texas, kept the Red Raiders in the top ten despite the Cotton Bowl loss to Ole Miss. It's Texas Tech, so there were plenty of non-conference cream-puffs (Eastern Washington, SMU and UMass), but there was a good win over Nevada. In conference play, Tech was able to get by Nebraska and Kansas from the North, and throttled Oklahoma State from the South.

2007 Score: 13.64 2007 Ranking: 29
Quality Wins: 5. Nevada, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma State
Elite Win Score: 1. Texas
Bad Loss Score: 0 ... Bad Wins: 3. Eastern Washington, SMU, Massachusetts ... Elite Loss: 1. at Oklahoma
Point Differential Score: 2.07 ... Winning Percentage: 0.85

10. Penn State (11-2) Final Score: 19.29
While this might seem sort of low for a team that was an Iowa field goal away from playing for the national title, Penn State only had one really impressive win, Ohio State, and two good wins over Oregon State and Michigan State, and there were several wins over lousy teams. Fattening up on Coastal Carolina, Syracuse, Michigan and Indiana helped the cause.

2007 Score: 15.10 2007 Ranking: 21
Quality Wins: 4. Oregon State, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Michigan State
Elite Win Score: 1. at Ohio State
Bad Loss Score: 0 ... Bad Wins: 4. Coastal Carolina, Syracuse, Michigan, Indiana ... Elite Loss: 1. USC
Point Differential Score: 3.19 ... Winning Percentage: 0.85

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[oupride]

Thanks for the post.

[IronSoonerMan]

I may be reading this wrong...... Florida had a 0 bad loss score?
We had 1 elite loss @ TT?

[nytehorn]

I'm sure the writer meant Texas. So many of these sports columns obviously don't have proof-readers. ;)

[olevetonahill]

I'm sure the writer meant Texas succs. So many of these sports columns obviously don't have proof-readers. ;)

Fixed

[rainiersooner]

Funny how a sports writer can get that wrong. Oh well.

[olevetonahill]

I cant hardly believe that the Only spek I got fer My Post Came from a :texan:
:eek:

[SoonerStud615]

I agree with that, but it's hard to get other sportswriters to follow suit with the "what have you done for me lately" bias that tends to drop the championship loser quite significantly.

[Catman]

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[tator]

I thought it was interesting that Ohio State was an elite win for TX, but only a quality win for USC

[SoonerSig]

This is so arbitrary that you can't take anything away from this. How was the Florida loss at home to Ole Miss not a bad loss? How can tOSU be an elite win for Texas but not USC? This is honestly nothing more than something to placate the masses... The only thing that they got right was we're still ahead of Texass. BOOMER SOONER

[JaminT]

we lost 2 games

I'm as big a OU fan as anybody, but I can't understand why a 1 loss Tejas team would be edged out be a 2 lose sooner squad after beating them. But as others have pointed out, these rankings are 'tarded

[hobbes2702]

If you read it the only reason yall finished in front of us is because yall got to play in the big12 title. And as Jamin said 1 loss is better than two especially since one of yalls came against us

[nytehorn]

US Ranked 4th

After determining the Big-12 championship game participants, the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.

"Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing on into conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses came against the US and Russia; however considering their entire body of work--including an incredibly tough Strength of Schedule--our computers deemed them worthy of the #1 ranking."

Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States the BCS commissioner stated "The US only had two major victories--Japan and Germany. The computer models, unlike humans, aren't influenced by head-to-head contests--they consider each contest to be only a single, equally-weighted event."

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler said "Yes, we lost to the US; but we defeated #2 ranked France in only 6 weeks." Herr Hitler has been criticized for seeking dramatic victories to earn 'style points' to enhance Germany's rankings. Hitler protested "Our contest with Poland was in doubt until the final day and the conditions in Norway were incredibly challenging and demanded the application of additional forces."

The French ranking has also come under scrutiny. The BCS commented " France had a single loss against Germany and following a preseason #1 ranking they only fell to #2."

Japan was ranked #3 with victories including Manchuria, Borneo and the Philippines.

I received this from one of my Sooner buddies, and it makes about as much sense as the BCS. ;)

[polamalu]

The AP and the Coaches Poll are the only two that matter. The Saudi Arabian Herald had OU #1.