| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 2 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | -- |
| 3 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 4 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 5 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 6 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 7 | Michigan St. Spartans | -- |
| 8 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
| 9 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -- |
| 10 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 11 | South Carolina Gamecocks |  1 |
| 12 | Michigan Wolverines | 1 |
| 13 | Kansas St. Wildcats |  -2 |
| 14 | Baylor Bears | 4 |
| 15 | USC Trojans | -- |
| 16 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -2 |
| 17 | TCU Horned Frogs | 2 |
| 18 | Georgia Bulldogs | -1 |
| 19 | Southern Miss. Golden Eagles | 3 |
| 20 | Houston Cougars | 3 |
| 21 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | -5 |
| 22 | West Virginia Mountaineers | 2 |
| 23 | Clemson Tigers | -3 |
| 24 | Florida St. Seminoles | 1 |
| 25 | Virginia Tech Hokies | -4 |
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
LSU? Yes, LSU but only because there's no way to split my vote with Oklahoma State. In my mind, those two share the title this year. Where's Alabama? Third. Didn't they win impressively on Monday? Absolutely, but it doesn't change the fact the actual game that counted occurred the first week of November when LSU defeated them in Tuscaloosa on their own field. If you don't win your conference, let alone your division then you get no part of a national title. I love college football, watch every game I possibly can and I tuned in for maybe a total of five minutes of gametime of the game. I just didn't care, the BCS succeeded in creating a "championship" game I didn't give a damn about what happened.
In other places, things played out to script in the rest of bowls so the rest of the Top 10 didn't see a change either. I almost flipped Wisconsin and Michigan State back again, however a close win over Georgia by the Spartans wasn't quite enough to offset the close loss to Oregon by the Badgers. Below that there was a little shuffling with Baylor, Houston and West Virginia the biggest climbers. On the flip side and out of character for them historically, Penn State laid an egg and along with Clemson's woeful performance, which dragged Virginia Tech along with them, saw all taking the furthest drops. Disagree with any of it? As always, questions, corrections, suggestions and objections are welcome.
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Does anyone else remember
when PSU beat LSU in the 2010 Capital One Bowl?
Dr.TobiasFunke - January 11, 2012
The SEC homers
will tell you it doesn’t count because of the muddy field.
Because, you know, both teams didn’t have to deal with those conditions or anything.
dbl5030 - January 11, 2012
This is the hilarious thing
Because this is exactly what all of them say. Ive heard LSU fans say they were 9-3 that year and didnt even count that game because apparently the field gave us an advantage and not them. I know convincing logic right?
ReddWhitenBlue - January 11, 2012
What? Impossible
PSU doesn’t win big games
Artiefufkin10 - January 11, 2012
SUCCESSFUL TROLL IS SUCCESSFUL
cheek - January 11, 2012
cheek - January 11, 2012
Beautiful
Peter Gray - January 11, 2012
I didn't watch the BCS title game either.
Heard it was boring as hell.
Does anyone know what the TV ratings were?
It wasn’t even on a broadcast network.
TonyLion - January 11, 2012
Ratings
I heard the ratings were the lowest for the National Championship in the BCS era.
Ben16 - January 11, 2012
The overnight ratings were,
but when all was said and done it was just the third-lowest. That said, isn’t it weird how the three lowest-rated BCS NCGs in history all featured teams that didn’t win their conference?
dbl5030 - January 11, 2012
I would not say weird. I would say it is telling.
Ben16 - January 11, 2012
I would put
Okie State number one.
PSU Mudder - January 11, 2012
'Bama defense
I’m obviously in the minority here, but I watched the entire MNC and enjoyed every minute of it. One good defense (LSU) and one great defense (Alabama). Also interesting to watch ’Bama’s young quarterback. Alabama missed a bunch of field goals in the first game against LSU and also had that crazy play where a goal-line reception was pulled out of the receiver’s arms. Change either of those two facts, and it likely would have won the first contest, too. The NCG was just a beat-down, and it’s the game that counted—just like a Super Bowl rematch of two NFL teams is the one that counts. I consider Alabama as legitimate a national champion as we can get under the currently flawed system. And yes, it would have been nice to see them play Oklahoma State this weekend.
nittnut - January 11, 2012
So many people try and make the NFL parallel.
No one has a problem with rematches if they occur as a result of a playoff. People only have a problem with rematches when they occur as a result of a system that claims to make every regular season game count. Because the BCS claims this exactly, there’s absolutely zero credence given to “this is the game that counts” because it goes against the BCS’s own claim.
I don’t care how close the first game was. If every regular season game is supposed to matter, then Alabama absolutely lost their shot to play for the NC when LSU had such a stranglehold on the #1 spot and it was obvious they were going to be put there.
dbl5030 - January 12, 2012
I mean, how ridiculous is it that THE GAME could be played 3 times in a row!
It’s entirely possible one season that UM and OSU are just like this year’s Alabama and LSU, dominating all competition. THE GAME always ends the regular season, and so it was discussed at length when the division alignments came out that there could easily be a rematch in the CCG one year. Under the BCS, if there’s a really close game like the OMGGAMEOFTHECENTURY this year, both UM and OSU could easily end up #1 and 2.
At least then, they’d break the season series tie.
dbl5030 - January 12, 2012
It would never happen
because they’re in the Big Ten. It will only ever happen with SEC teams.
Cari Greene - January 12, 2012
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