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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1220437, member: 289"] WEEK FIFTEEN OHIO STATE beat #13 Wisconsin by 59 = 72 points OREGON beat #7 Arizona by 38 = 57 points ALABAMA beat #16 Missouri by 29 = 39 points BAYLOR beat #9 Kansas State by 11 = 28 points GEORGIA TECH lost to #4 Florida State by 2 = 20 points FLORIDA STATE beat #11 Georgia Tech by 2 = 17 points KANSAS STATE lost to #6 Baylor by 11 = 9 points OKLAHOMA STATE beat #20 Oklahoma by 3 = 9 points Comment: Ohio State’s 72 points vs. Wisconsin was the best performance against a ranked team this season, topping Alabama’s 64 points when they beat Texas A&M by the same score. Were teams “rolling up scores” to impress the committee. Art Briles said he through about it against Kansas State. But I don’t think an extra score would have helped Baylor. I’m also not sure you could accuse Ohio State or Oregon of rolling it up, even though they won by big margins. Oregon was ahead 44-7 after three quarters and last scored on a ten play drive ending with a 19 yard run with 4:12 left. Ohio State was u scored the most fourth quarter points with 21. But they came in ahead only 21-13 so they were still worried about losing the game. One score came on the first play of the fourth quarter and their last 11 plays, including the two scoring plays, were runs. TCU was up only 17-3 at the half and had a 31 points third quarter. Their last score came with 12:34 left in the fourth. They got the ball twice after that. The first time they drove to the ISU 6where they tried for it on fourth down and got stopped, rather than kicking a field goal . There’s an eternal debate as to what is the best thing to do there. On the final possession, it was nothing but “victory plays”. Big scores don’t mean the score was “run up”. They just mean that one team was a lot better than the other one. CUMULATIVE POINTS 171 Alabama 148 Oregon 139 Georgia 135 Texas Christian 129 Arkansas 115 Mississippi State 111 Mississippi 110 Ohio State 104 Auburn 97 UCLA 93 Arizona State and Baylor 92 Arizona 86 West Virginia 75 Texas A& M 72 Georgia Tech and Wisconsin 64 Florida State 62 Stanford 56 Louisiana State 52 Florida 43 Boston College 41 Texas 40 Kansas State and So. California 38 Utah and Virginia Tech 37 South Carolina 36 Northwestern 35 Notre Dame 28 Oklahoma State and Oregon State and Virginia 23 Utah State 21 Kansas 20 Minnesota and Missouri 19 Clemson, Miami and Tennessee 17 Indiana, Texas Tech and Washington State 16 East Carolina and Michigan State 15 Temple 14 Washington 13 Louisville and North Carolina 11 Kentucky, Nebraska and Oklahoma 10 Duke, Navy and North Carolina State 9 Syracuse 8 Iowa and Memphis 6 Michigan and Penn State 4 Navy and Purdue 3 Western Kentucky 2 California and Iowa State 1 San Diego State Here’s a short list of the undefeated and one loss teams, (excluding Marshall, who’s not a national title contender). 171 Alabama 148 Oregon 135 Texas Christian 110 Ohio State 93 Baylor 64 Florida State I re-figured these teams using their games against CURRENTLY ranked teams, using last week’s committee ranking. 160 Oregon 102 Ohio State 95 Alabama 94 Baylor 66 Texas Christian 47 Florida State [/QUOTE]

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