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Originally Posted by Suffolk Shippers

Michigan stays at #2 in the BCS standings by .007 pts. That being said if Notre Dame goes to LA next week and beats USC, especially if they have a convincing win against USC, the tide will break for Notre Dame in the title game, just because it's Notre Dame.

As unfair as that may be, especially since Michigan took a steaming dump all over ND at South Bend, thats how I see it.

If USC wins and then beats UCLA, I would imagine it's their spot to lose.

Winner of the SEC Championship game has an outside shot, seeing as the SEC should be regarded as the toughest conference in the country. However, Arkansas lost to USC, so if USC goes 2-0 and Arkansas wins the SEC, edge: USC. But if Florida wins, who knows?

Here are the likely match ups:

OSU-USC
OSU-ND
OSU-Arkansas
OSU-Floride
OSU-Michigan

I think the match up of Michigan-Ohio State, although rendering the game yesterday meaningless, is the right match up. They are the best teams in the nation and that's the stated "goal" of the BCS. The schools wanted this and now they can sift through the sh*t of it. A Michigan win would just totally eff things up, but tough cookies. The BCS is what the schools wanted and if it cost them a true champion THEN MAYBE THEY WILL BE CONVINCED TO CHANGE IT.

I can only go by the Colley Matrix since that allows you to add/remove games but it looks like if USC wins out they will move up to 1 or 2 in the computer rankings which will guarantee them a spot. It will be very close for Florida to get ahead of Michigan in the computer polls if they win out so they will almost certainly need to leapfrog Michigan in the human polls which seems unlikely. Notre Dame and Arkansas have absolutely no shot unless they leapfrog Michigan and even then they would have to be significantly ahead of Michigan in votes received which is extremely unlikely. So basically is it Ohio St - Michigan or Ohio St - USC with a slight possibility of Ohio St - Florida.