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AP: “If you’ve got a vote, vote for us,” [Texas coach Mack] Brown said, pleading directly to voters in The Associated Press writers poll. “I’m asking you to do that and I’m asking everyone across the nation.”

“I know that Cal almost beat USC and shut out Arizona State. I know that if they win next week, they’re 10-1 just like we are. I know that Cal hasn’t been to the Rose Bowl for 45 years, and that their players are just deserving as our players.

“But screw all of that. Vote for Texas! We want to go to the BCS! We’ll buy you candy if you vote for us!”

Maybe the voters are such sheep that they’ll push Texas above Cal — let’s face it, it’s a possibility, since Cal lost 12 points in last week’s poll after their largest victory over Stanford in more than 70 years. But if Cal wins next week at Southern Miss, and is barred from their first Rose Bowl since the ’50s because voters decided at the last minute to tactically switch to Texas in order to screw Cal and promote the Big XII, then it’s no longer time to tweak the BCS system — it’s time to detonate it.

Hey-

Came across your blog today. Great stuff. Couldn't agree with you more about the BCS. (But what if both Auburn and Oklahoma lose, pitting USC against Cal for the national championship -- and ensuring both Utah and Boise State BCS bids. Wouldn't the BCS then guarantee more teams bids than are available?)

Noticed you were also basketball fans. Hoping you could kindly add a blogroll link to my College Basketball Blog, http://collegeball.blogspot.com. I'd very much appreciate l ink.

And would gladly return the favor, adding a link from my site to yours.

Thanks!

Yoni Cohen, http://collegeball.blogspot.com
College Basketball Blog

I'm watching the Virginia-Va. Tech game this morning, Jason, and every time they cut to the studio, Craig James is taking great pains to explain to us how awful the Pac-10 is, especially when compared to the Big 12.

The Screw Cal! campaign appears to be gaining momentum.

In my mind, the simplest answer comes down to two scores: USC(1) 23, Cal 17 -- with Cal thwarted in a last-minute scoring drive that would've beaten the Trojans. And Oklahoma(2) 12, Texas 0.

Cal lost to the #1 team and almost beat them. Texas got shut out by #2, and had no chance. Seems pretty clear to me.

But of course they're going to try and screw Cal. The media have little respect for the Pac-10, and the coaches apparently have less.

Be glad Lee Corso didn't Whammy you. After all, he used it on Wisconsin vs. Michigan St. I swear, every week I was hearing "Oh, Wisconsin's gonna lose to this team, the other team is just too good". And then Wisconsin would win. The next week, someone else on the College Gameday staff would put down the Badgers. Then the Badgers win. Finally Corso gave up and used the Whammy. And as soon as that loss came, no more mention of the Badgers, like "See, we told you." Because they already have their Cinderella in Utah. Even as Boise St. keeps rattling off blowouts, there was never even a mention of them for the BCS. None. All Utah. They only started bringing them up when a perfect season was more or less a guarantee, and even then, it's not much.

Which brings me to how I rank teams: Undefeateds go first. Always. You put 11 ranked teams on your schedule, great. If you put Division 3 schools on your schedule, that's fine too. If nobody's proven that you can be beaten, you go to the top. The end. None of this "Georgia lost twice, but those were good losses, and Boise State never blah blah blah..." No. Georgia lost twice. Boise State hasn't lost at all. Boise State is ahead of Georgia and everybody else with a loss.

So remind me again why I should bother with college football? Gads, things were so much easier when Cal sucked.

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