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The chance is slim to none, but it's still a chance, right?

This is the current BCS standing: http://sports.espn.go.com...

There are EIGHT (yeah, EIGHT) teams above OU: Missouri, West Virginia, Ohio State, Georgia, Kansas, Virginia Tech, LSU, and USC. It's impossible to be #1 at this since the 1-loss Ohio State doesn't have any more game to play so forget about it. Our best bet will be the #2 spot, and these events need to happen for Sooners to play in MNC:

- Sooners beat Missouri. Duh.
- WVU loses to Pitts. It's very unlikely but hey, anything goes in 2007 season.
- LSU loses to Tennessee.
- USC loses to UCLA.
- VT loses to BC.

Georgia can't really do anything since they didn't win their division of the SEC. Plus, if other 2-loss teams end up being the conference champions, pollster will favor them more than Georgia. Same scenario happens to Kansas.

So see? Just cross your finger and hope for another armageddon shakeup..

Finally, the first BCS result is out:

http://sports.espn.go.com...

Guess where we are on the list:

1 Ohio State
2 South Florida
3 Boston College
4 LSU
5 Oklahoma

It was actually not as bad I thought it would be. With our current schedule strength, the logical expectation was to position OU somewhere on 10th-13th rank. But fortunately, the computers were on our side, at least for this week :)

Of course, to get back into the title game, we need at least three of the top four to fall sometime on the remainder of the season. But notice that the discrepancy between Sooners' BCS score and LSU's is about .08 points while the other top four's are about .05 and less. So even if they lose, they still have a chance to stay on top of us. We need Texas Tech and Missouri to win the remainder of the season (except against us) to boost our schedule strength.