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Since71ASooner4Life
9/18/2006, 06:14 PM
OK, now that everyone including the PAC-10 recognizes/admits that the refs blew those calls ...... and beyond reasonable doubt caused the higher ranked team (while playing on the road) to lose ..... how can if be that the idiots who do the voting feel the beneficiary of the poor officiating moves up 5 or 6 places in the rankings while the victom moves down a couple spots? Even if you voted before the acknowledgements were made, your own damn eyes didnt lie to you now did they?
IronSooner
9/18/2006, 06:39 PM
It's a rule. Regardless of what happened, the winning team must move up and the losing team must move down. It's like that comment Herbstreit had on wrapup when he said the heisman hopeful on a losing team must lose some standing in the balloting just because his team lost. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
SoonerinSouthlake
9/18/2006, 06:41 PM
Lets give it a couple of weeks to work itself out. Perhaps another of David Borens motives in his public letter was to make sure this gets as much attention as possible...so the voters and the like hear all of the facts and not just a typical ESPN "short mention" of the Sooners
SoonerGOP
9/18/2006, 08:42 PM
If you want to see the rankings change -- list the names, work phones and email addresses of every AP poll voter that moved Oregon up and Oklahoma down. Then ask them why they voted that way and to respectfully reconsider their decision.

Of course, that could also just **** them off! :)
Eielson
9/18/2006, 08:46 PM
It's a rule. Regardless of what happened, the winning team must move up and the losing team must move down. It's like that comment Herbstreit had on wrapup when he said the heisman hopeful on a losing team must lose some standing in the balloting just because his team lost. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

No, it works that way except under extreme circumstances. Such as when Texas A&M almost beat us but lost and moved up in the polls a few years ago.
sdsooner
9/18/2006, 08:53 PM
Part of the problem is that the day after the game, Sunday, is all about the NFL. There was very little critical comment about the calls, and certainly no analysis about it. All of this has transpired really in the last 12 hours, obviously long after those ballots were cast. Now the real problem is, another week transpires before another vote. How long a memory do these voters have and will there be some sort of adjustment they make next week?