Only folks who feel even remotely sorry for Boise...is Boise. Their schedule is an embarrassment to the entire top 25 and their BCS poll position shows just how flawed the BCS is. Part of me hopes they get into the title game just so they can be pummeled back into the stone age where they belong.

WS game 6 too much for Bevo - he tanked with the Rangers.

It's doubtful Venables could stop OSU with 15 players on the field.

Four things have to happen for OU to get into the title game:

1. Oregon has to beat Stanford. Could easily happen. Or Stanford needs to lose in the conference title game. Stanford is overrated. As is the quarterback. He's good. Not great.

2. Alabama or LSU needs to beat the other by double figures so that the loser falls below OU.

3. OU needs to pass Boise State.

4. OU needs to beat OSU.

It's true, if Boise wants to be big time, it has to play big time.

Boone: How about the Ohio State and Nebraska picks? Forgot those, did you. You taking OU and giving OSU and ten for anything more than hot air?

Yep, if those four things happen.

A last-second Alabama-LSU game is big trouble in terms of a boring rematch. The BCS system has no common sense.

Here's what we've learned:

1. The Big XII needs to stay at ten or eleven teams to avoid the championship game at all cost. Teams like oSu this year and OU and Texas most years are good enough to beat everybody, but maybe not quite good enough to beat everybody twice. Avoid the championship game, which has done nothing for the conference except cost us four additional shots at the marbles.

2. Don't ever say "pre-season rankings don't mean anything." Sooners get killed by Taco at home, who then proceeds to lose at home to the second worst team in the conference by something like 87 to 14. A week later, Sooners are 6th in America and were a triple overtime away from being fifth.

soko - your 2nd point is spot on. Boise has made a living on pre-season overrated garbage and hangs around while attrition in the stronger leagues keeps them there. pathetic. Your 1st point is predicated on winning and rankings. The conferences are more concerned about revenue and conf championship games bring in buckets of it.

pick - a tight LSU-Bama game with still another month to go after could leave enough time for OU to climb over the loser and Boise. Would depend on ridiculous factors including OU winning big in all games going out, the voters and the stupid computer model...etc etc...we could speculate till Bevo turns back over...doesn't matter...OSU has the best shot physically and with the math.

OU could score 27 on that defense in its sleep.

I would like nothing better than to see the Pokes play for the BCS "crown." But I see disappointment looming again. Small-Game Bob can't seem to prepare his team consistently for all the chumps they should beat handily... T. Tech, Boise, the hicks from WVU... the list is getting pretty long. But he still has the ability to get the Sooners ready for the big games. I think OU clobbers OSU once again, though it will do them no good. A third-rate Boise team is likely to be playing Bama or LSU... ridiculous.

"OU could score 27 on that defense in its sleep."

While they can rack up tons of yardage against OSU, let's not automatically liken that to scoring.

First off, OSU has the 26th best redzone defense in the nation. And that's saying a lot considering the opposing offenses have so many more opportunities because of how fast the OSU offense operates. OSU may give up yards between the 20's but they put the clamp down when it counts.

Second, the OU offense has shown some trouble at points trying to score within the redzone. Now before OU fans get crimson in the face, I'm well aware that they are 15th in the nation in redzone conversions. But I think an honest OU fan will admit that there has been trouble at times with punching it in when close to the goal line.

I don't think OSU will hold OU to only 27 but at the same time I don't think scoring will be a breeze for OU either.

After the OSU game the crimson and crap will get a new d-man. Welcome back little bro.

When Gundy first took over Okie St., I honestly thought he wouldn't last, I thought he was over his head....

Each year his team has gotten better, he has built them up the correct way in every way.... Now he has depth to replace those that leave, dare I say, now he reloads instead of rebuild....

He will someday rise to the level of one of the greatest coaches in Oklahoma history if he stays....

Amazing, at first I couldn't imagine him lasting, now I can't imagine him leaving, I was wrong then, could I be wrong now ????

Kudos Coach Gundy....

How did Boise State get so highly ranked?

You know the answer to this, Pick. Preseason rankings.

National media loves a good story and a Cinderella team always makes for the best. Human voters will continue to stay on Boise's bandwagon until the wheels come off. I doubt the computers look at them very favorably.

Also, I was wrong. OSU's redzone defense isn't the 26th best in the nation.

It's the 10th.

The devils at ESPN started today, Wednesday morning, to wish for an Alabama-LSU rematch in the title game

The disgrace of college football grows like Jack's beanstalk.

NBA lockout forcing ESPN to come up with creative subjects like LSU-Bama rematch to fill air-time. Next up: Erin Andrews fall fashion tips

Mexi is pretty close on the Boise deal. They are the reigning non-AQ poster child for the BCS. Unless/until we get a +1 or playoff this garbage will continue.