MY WIFE'S THEORY
Bear with me on this one.
My wife, who is still seriously smarting over the Tech win over Texas, wants another crack at the Red Raiders.
She thinks Tech and Texas can finish as the top two teams in the BCS standings after the regular season finishes on Dec. 6.
I say no way, but here's her scenario (in order of team's current BCS ranking), and it doesn't include Tech losing anymore games until the national championship:
1. Alabama loses to either Mississippi State or Auburn and then to Florida on Dec. 6. Two losses.
2. Tech wins out, including the Big 12 championship game. No losses.
3. Texas beats Kansas and A&M convincingly. One loss.
4. Florida loses to Florida State the week before beating Alabama. Two losses.
5. Oklahoma loses to Tech. Two losses.
6. USC - make that whiny USC - loses to Stanford, Notre Dame or UCLA. Two losses.
7. Utah loses to San Diego State or BYU. One loss.
8. Penn State loses to Michigan State. Two losses.
9. Boise State loses to Idaho, Nevada or Fresno State. One loss.
10. Georgia already has two losses.
See her thinking? Texas with one loss trumps everyone else with two losses, plus no way will the BCS dare rank Utah or Boise State ahead of the Longhorns.
There you have it on January 8, 2009, in Miami, Florida - No. 1-ranked Texas Tech against No. 2-ranked Texas for all the marbles.
Technically, I guess it could happen, but the odds have to be astronomical.
Conventional wisdom has Texas and Oklahoma winning out, meaning Tech falls to OU. There's that horrible three-way tie in the Big 12 South, and who knows what the BCS would do with the rankings. Texas beat OU by 10 points when it was ranked No. 1, and Tech beat Texas by six points when it was No. 1. But if OU beats Tech, they will probably still be ranked No. 2.
I don't know, but I will just puke if somehow Oklahoma and USC are in the title game.
BTW: Great game against Baylor, Colt!