DESPITE WIN OVER SONNERS, LONGHORNS LEFT OUT OF BIG 12 TITLE, CHAMPIONSHIP GAME PICTURE

As expected, Oklahoma jumped Texas despite the Longhons 45-35 win on a neutral field earlier this season. Texas’ only loss was a last second job to #7 Texas Tech. OU beat OK-State Saturday night while Texas failed to impress voters with a 49-9 thrashing of A&M on Thanksgiving evening. We always say it, but we need a playoff and even though we also always say maybe this is the year where something gets done because of another injustice, were stuck with the system even if Obama wants to change it. I think he’s got these little things called the economy, bailouts, the war, the housing market, the credit crunch, health care, education........and about 500,000 other issues before it trickles down to anything regarding sports.
For the record, the best explanation I heard from a voter for keeping one above the other in the OU-Texas debate was from Stewart Mandel of Si.com: Much like an instant replay review, I need “insurmountable evidence” to convince me to move one team (Oklahoma) above another (Texas). All I see are two extremely deserving teams with no discernible separation between them—except, of course, for that 10-point margin on the day they played each other.”The Horns should play for the Big 12 and National Title but CFB, like llife ain’t fair........

DOES OREGON STATE LOSS AFFECT UTES BOWL DESTIANTION?

Doubtful but possible. With the Beavers loss to Oregon Saturday night that almost assuredly puts USC in the Rose Bowl and takes the Trojans out of a Fiesta Bowl berth. If OSU would have won, USC would have been the pick of the Fiesta Bowl, which has first pick of at-large teams this season. USC now has to beat UCLA and they go to the Rose. The pick for the Fiesta, which has the coveted #1 pick and a Big 12 tie-in will be down to Utah or Ohio State. Even with Utah being much closer on the map, Bucks fans will travel better even in this ecoonomy. Plus with the first pick of at-large teams, the Fiesta is unlikely to go with a lower profile program like Utah from a conference like the MWC. Here is how the BCS bowls shake out:
TITLE GAME: BCS #1 vs. BCS #2 (Florida vs. Oklahoma)-Assuming Florida beats Bama in SEC title game and OU beats Mizzou in Big 12 title game.....
ROSE: Big Ten #1 vs. Pac-10 #1 (Penn St. vs. USC)
FIESTA: Big 12 vs. At-Large #1 pick (Texas vs. Ohio State)-Bucks highest profile team left and make for big name, highly rated bowl with two large fan bases.
SUGAR: SEC vs. At-Large pick #2 (Alabama vs. Utah)-Bama loses to Florida in SEC title game, pick comes down to 10-2 Cincy of the Big East and 12-0 Utah.
ORANGE: ACC #1 vs. At-Large #3 pick. (Va-Tech-BC winner vs. Cincinnati, winner of Big East) Likely Va. Tech vs. Cincy in match-up of two dissapointing but automatic bid conferences. Boise State vs. Texas Tech would be more deserving according to the BCS standings but won’t happen.

THIS GUY IS RIGHT

I keep telling you that college football is a business. It is not about finding a true champion, being fair, matching up the best teams or in general doing what is best for the sport or what is most entertaining for its fans. It is however all about business and making money. Stewart Mandel of SI.com has it right when he says non-BCS conferences need to settle down: “That the mid-majors are getting greedy. The media crusade has begun to get one of the BCS bowls to invite 12-0 Boise State (in addition to 12-0 Utah). Give me a break. While it’s nice that Utah, Boise State and Hawaii have gotten to play on the big stage in recent years, the reality is, their inclusion is not in the bowls’ best business interests. Those teams’ games have drawn three of the six lowest TV ratings in BCS history. And even if Boise took every one of its season-ticket holders to, say, the Fiesta Bowl, they still wouldn’t broach Ohio State’s traveling horde.

AK GETS SOME NATIONAL LOVE

Kind of a weird time to go back and re-hash the AK-Sloan relationship on a national level but that is exactly what SI.com and Andrei and Masha Kirilenko did recently. Things seem to be going well with AK relishing the 6th man role and all the trade talk has been tabled largely due to #47’s insanely big pay check, but when have the Masha’s ever not complained loudly? 

ONE MWC COACHING VACANCY IS FILLED

Missouri Offensive Coordinator Dave Christensen, who had ties to the University of Washington and was expected to be a strong candidate for that job, bolted for another UW, the University of Wyoming to take over for Joe Glenn. I bet his family is estatic, if estactic means they want to kill themselves. The three finalists for the UW post were Christensen, Nebraska wide receivers coach Ted Gilmore, a former Wyoming WR and coach, and former Louisville, Michigan State and Utah State head coach John L. Smith.

SEATTLE TIMES TALKS ABOUT WHITT TO WASHINGTON

According to the Seattle Times, Washington likes Kyle Whittingham but as we’ve said many times, it is very likely he stays at Utah due to his ties in the area: “Also, ...A source said that UW has inquired about talking with Texas Tech coach Mike Leach. And one source said that Utah’s Kyle Wittingham may also be in the picture, though the general thought on him is that he would be hard to pry away right now.”

THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE SCREAMING FOR A TRADE TO PUT THE JAZZ OVER THE TOP

Remember the case of Devin Harris for Jason Kidd. Harris is becoming an All-Star point guard and he torched the Jazz for 34 in their 105-88 win on Saturday night for the Nets, who are on the upswing with some young talent and the desperate Dallas Mavericks have a great name-so-so play point who best days are wayyyy behind him. Harris is 25. Kidd is 36 going on 50. The Mavericks are toast and Harris has always given D-Will some trouble, healthy or not. Good thing the Jazz only see this guy twice a year and he’s out of the West, he’s just going to get better.

TEXT DUMPING: WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

Former tennis player and Wimbledon champ Boris Becker was dumped by his fiance via text and she sent it 5 times just to make sure he got the message . Sounds pretty brutal to dump anyone that way let alone a fiance. You’d think that unless you knew that the former German tennis star dumped his girlfriend via text just a year earlier.

AN UPDATE

On the man and woman who didn’t know each other and had a girlfriend and husband respectively waiting for them at their seats as they had sex in a stall at a Minnesota-Iowa game a couple weeks back. By the way, a pic of the woman, Lois Feldman 38, is below.  This woman clearly is a tramp and has her hhusband hoodwinked: “Feldman, a married mother of three, has been the target of Internet jokes and prank telephone calls today. She was fired this morning from an assisted living center, where she had been an administrator. Feldman said her husband, Kelly, has been supportive. She said he faults himself for not going with her when she left her seat to use the restroom before halftime.FAULTS HIMSELF???? This woman has convinced this man that she is such a slut that she can’t even go to the bathroom alone if she’s had a couple glasses of ripple? Dude, get yourself a new woman and grab your pair back at the door.