Colt McCoy – Quarterback for the Texas Longhorns

OK, let's take a look at the next 4 weeks and some BCS teams.

Two of the top 9 teams in the standings (but not USC or Utah) will be playing in the National Championship game, so let's see what the rest of their schedules are (in order of what I think is the hardest remaining schedule):

• Oklahoma (6th in BCS): The Sooners have the toughest schedule left, with three road games against A&M, Baylor and Oklahoma State, plus a home date with the Red Raiders. And even if they win out they might not make it to the Big 12 Championship game and then on to the "Big 'Un."
• Texas Tech (2nd in BCS): Double-T has Oklahoma State and then OU on the road before finishing with Baylor. I've seen both OU and the Cowboys play many times and they're the main reason Texas is ranked so high. They are tough as anyone, and the Red Raiders will have trouble beating both. But if they do and win out, they can't drop in the standings.
• Oklahoma State (9th in BCS): Cowpokes are at Tech and Colorado before finishing up at home against the Sooners. That last game is going to be a classic. I see them losing to OU, but I could be wrong.
• Alabama (1st in BCS): The Tide has LSU on the road this week, then Mississippi State on the road before finishing up at home against Auburn. They could lose to one of those teams.



• Florida (5th in BCS): The Gators have 4 games left as well, but three are "laughers" against Vanderbilt, S. Carolina and The Citadel. They finish on the road against Florida State, and that could be their only other loss.
• Penn State (3rd in BCS): At Iowa and then hosting Indiana and Michigan State, I really don't see them losing, except maybe the one to the Spartans.
• Texas (4th in BCS): Hosting Baylor, then to Kansas and finishing up the turkey with A&M, the Horns shouldn't lose another one.

Well, for Longhorn fans it means (on paper, at least) there's still a chance for a Texas national championship game against probably Penn State, but maybe Alabama or even Florida.

But taking the remaining schedules in mind, who knows.

One thing I do know is that if there is not a Big 12 team in the national championship game, then that will be a travesty of such magnitude that it might mean the death of the BCS as we know it today.

Texas, Tech, Oklahoma and OSU will have all played each other, and no other team in the nation has had such a tough schedule to overcome as they have.