These are doomsday scenarios to be sure, but how long have you been following the Pac-10 Doc888?
Scott Frost, a one time Stanford player, took Nebraska into a bowl game and won big in the 1997 season. Then he gave a passionate plea to the voters to vote Nebraska as the National champs. They were not #1 going into the game, and #1 Michigan won in the Rose Bowl game. Nonetheless, Nebraska got a split of the title.
But that was pre-BCS. The mother of all lobbying was done by Mack Brown of Texas. He jumped into the media the week before the last vote and essentially said that Texas was due. Texas had been so close to getting into a BCS bowl for a few years, and looked destined to just miss once again. The voters agreed with Brown and raised Texas over C.a.l on a week that C.a.l won. Texas went to the Rose Bowl, C.a.l was kicked out.
Texas looked good, and used that to springboard into the BCS NC game the next year. Amazingly enough in the Rose Bowl. And with that earlier experience Texas upset Reggie Bush and USC. Which in retrospect was a good thing since USC would have had to vacate that title.
In any event, that Brown plea was a pure voters\' special.
It has happened before and will happen again. The good news is that it is unlikely this time because the teams right behind Stanford will be getting what they want anyway. Wisconsin will go to the Rose Bowl. Ohio State will go to the Sugar Bowl. So there is no reason to force votes for them.
However, if losses are plentiful and things really get tossed up then all bets are off. Let\'s just say, thanks to the C.a.l experience I know not to count on that BCS #4 thing before the final vote.
Scott Frost, a one time Stanford player, took Nebraska into a bowl game and won big in the 1997 season. Then he gave a passionate plea to the voters to vote Nebraska as the National champs. They were not #1 going into the game, and #1 Michigan won in the Rose Bowl game. Nonetheless, Nebraska got a split of the title.
But that was pre-BCS. The mother of all lobbying was done by Mack Brown of Texas. He jumped into the media the week before the last vote and essentially said that Texas was due. Texas had been so close to getting into a BCS bowl for a few years, and looked destined to just miss once again. The voters agreed with Brown and raised Texas over C.a.l on a week that C.a.l won. Texas went to the Rose Bowl, C.a.l was kicked out.
Texas looked good, and used that to springboard into the BCS NC game the next year. Amazingly enough in the Rose Bowl. And with that earlier experience Texas upset Reggie Bush and USC. Which in retrospect was a good thing since USC would have had to vacate that title.
In any event, that Brown plea was a pure voters\' special.
It has happened before and will happen again. The good news is that it is unlikely this time because the teams right behind Stanford will be getting what they want anyway. Wisconsin will go to the Rose Bowl. Ohio State will go to the Sugar Bowl. So there is no reason to force votes for them.
However, if losses are plentiful and things really get tossed up then all bets are off. Let\'s just say, thanks to the C.a.l experience I know not to count on that BCS #4 thing before the final vote.