Will the best 2 teams please stand up?
Texas Tech derails sooner National Championship plans and helps the Big East and Big-Ten in the process. Graham Harrel’s seventy-two pass attempts and 420 yards were too much for an OU team without NCAA passing efficiency leader Sam Bradford. In the process the Red Raiders threw a wrench into the Big 12 Conference Championship being a play-in for the NCAA Championship game. The winner of next week’s Kansas – Missouri contest will need to beat OU in order to represent the Big-12 in the title game. Otherwise, West Virginia with one loss or Ohio State if WV loses to Connecticut or Pittsburgh will make it to the show.  Arizona State could also get there and some think they will be ahead of West Virginia. I don’t see them getting ahead of Ohio State in the polls, even with a Thanksgiving win over USC.
I don’t see a Kansas team able to slip into the title game should they lose the Big-12 Championship Game, like OU did several years ago. It certainly is quite a feat to be the only BCS conference team to go undefeated through the regular season. But a loss late in the season will see the polls drop them behind Ohio State, LSU and West Virginia if the latter two can finish with only one loss. Should Missouri win out, they will be in the show and with back to back wins over Kansas and OU, they certainly deserve it. Will OU play Big 12 spoiler, first by dropping two to Colorado and Texas Tech and then by winning the conference title over the Number 2 team in the country?
And if LSU falters is the SEC Championship game, could we see Ohio State and Virginia Tech play for the national championship?
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