BCS rankings, November 30, 2008

The new BCS rankings were released today. This is the second poll to include the US News rankings. At the top, Texas and USC seem to be marching towards the championship game. Only a disaster against UCLA or a huge jump by Florida could keep USC out.

For at large teams, the loser of the SEC championship game should be a fairly sure bet, as should Oklahoma. The last spot could be more interesting. For the last spot, Ohio State, Boise State, Georgia Tech, TCU, Ball State and Boston College are all eligible for at-large selection. Boston College is probably out of the mix - if they win the ACC championship, they'll be in, while if they lose, they'll likely fall out of the at large range. Georgia Tech is a possibility. However two of their 9 wins came against IAA teams. Would this even count? This leaves 3 non-BCS teams and Ohio State. OSU is slightly ahead of BSU (do primarily to higher US News score), and thus should get the bid.


Last week's ranking

Rank	Team	Harris	US News	Computer	BCS Score
1	Texas	0.9115	0.2885	0.9400	0.7133
2	USC	0.8418	0.5577	0.7300	0.7098
3	Florida	0.9271	0.2692	0.8200	0.6721
4	Alabama	0.9965	0.0000	0.9200	0.6388
5	Oklahoma	0.9094	0.0000	0.9800	0.6298
6	Penn State	0.7706	0.2885	0.6700	0.5764
7	Texas Tech	0.7398	0.0000	0.8700	0.5366
8	Utah	0.7473	0.0000	0.8500	0.5324
9	Ohio State	0.6570	0.1923	0.5900	0.4798
10	Boise State	0.6857	0.0000	0.7400	0.4752
11	Georgia Tech	0.3770	0.3846	0.4500	0.4039
12	TCU	0.5317	0.0000	0.6100	0.3806
13	Ball State	0.5402	0.0000	0.5500	0.3634
14	Boston College	0.2952	0.4038	0.3800	0.3597
15	Northwestern	0.1465	0.8654	0.0000	0.3373
16	Stanford	0.0000	1.0000	0.0000	0.3333
17	Cincinnati	0.5044	0.0000	0.4400	0.3148
18	Duke	0.0000	0.9231	0.0000	0.3077
19	Georgia	0.2949	0.1731	0.4100	0.2927
20	Rice	0.0042	0.7308	0.0000	0.2450
21	Vanderbilt	0.0000	0.7115	0.0000	0.2372
21	Notre Dame	0.0000	0.7115	0.0000	0.2372
23	California	0.0064	0.6731	0.0000	0.2265
24	BYU	0.3504	0.0000	0.2900	0.2135
25	Virginia	0.0000	0.6154	0.0000	0.2051