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Some AP Voters Laying Groundwork for Split National Title
Whichever team wins the BCS National Championship Game will win the BCS championship and the crystal football that goes with it. The winner technically is receiving the Coaches' Trophy, which goes along with finishing first in the Coaches' Poll. While individual coach voters have bucked the rule on...
Happy New Year
I sat down to look at the TSK stats for 2011 in Google Analytics today, and it was jaw dropping. Before doing anything else, I want to thank all of you who come here an make it a site worth writing for and visiting. The growth we experienced here was remarkable. Team Speed Kills debuted in April of...
Alabama No. 2 in Coaches' Poll; Harris Poll Likely Deciding Vote
The new Coaches' Poll is out, and Alabama is the No. 2 team by a slim margin. Bama has 1399 points to Oklahoma State's 1367 points. I'm going to make a couple of assumptions here about the rest of the BCS standings: LSU is the unanimous No. 1 team still. Alabama is second in two computer polls and...
BCS Debate Feels Backwards, Is Unique
Two things before we get into this. First, Yahoo! Sports' Dan Wetzel makes a good point. We tried to prevent this mess from happening. Mike Slive proposed a plus one format a couple years ago with the ACC's support, and the rest of the BCS conferences shot it down. We could be talking right now...
Road to the BCS Championship, Week 14
Full speed ahead. After LSU beat Arkansas on Friday and Alabama beat Auburn on Saturday, it appears we're just about all set for a rematch of the two. I'll get to more on that later, but it looks fairly secure. After all, what are the other options? Oklahoma State still lost to Iowa State after...
Road to the BCS Championship: Week 12
So we all agree on this, then. All three components of the formula in this week's BCS standings agree on the top six teams and what order they go in. This is not common. For instance, the Harris and Coaches' Polls have disagreed on whether Stanford or Oklahoma State should be higher up until this...
Road to the BCS Championship, Week 11
A soft landing for the Tide. Alabama fell to fourth in the Coaches and Harris Polls, but it remained third in the BCS standings. I have no problem with this; if you lose to the No. 1 team by a field goal in overtime, there's even a case to be made for not falling in the polls at all. So how did the...
Road to the BCS Championship, Week 10
Mind the gaps. We still have a large gap in the BCS standings between the top three teams (LSU, Alabama, and Oklahoma State) and No. 4 Stanford for exactly the same reasons as last week. Voters love the SEC squads, while the computers still love Oklahoma State and the Big 12 as a whole. Stanford...
Road to the BCS Championship, Week 9
And then there were three. Three teams have distanced themselves from the pack: LSU, Alabama and Oklahoma State. In the case of the two SEC titans, it's because of overwhelming support in the Coaches and Harris Polls. They're comfortably ahead of No. 3 Oklahoma State in the Harris, and they're way...
PollGaze Week 6: Churn
The number for the week is six, as the SEC made it back up to having more than five teams ranked once again. In this week's BlogPoll, LSU and Alabama captured 93 of the 98 total first place votes between them, with the Tigers getting 60 of them. The next team doesn't clock in until No. 13 where...
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