BCS standings: Kansas State No. 1, SEC out of top 3, Georgia still behind Bama at No. 5
The SEC, which has won college football’s past six national championships, will be shut out of this season’s title game if the latest Bowl Championship Series standings hold up.
Alabama’s loss to Texas A&M on Saturday dropped the Crimson Tide from No. 1 to No. 4 in the BCS standings, behind three undefeated teams — No. 1 Kansas State, No. 2 Oregon and No. 3 Notre Dame — and ahead of No. 5 Georgia.
The top two teams in the final BCS standings, which will be released Dec. 2, meet for the national title Jan. 7 in Miami.
The latest standings, released Sunday night, hardly shut the door to the title game for the SEC. But for an SEC team to get there at this point apparently would require that two of the top three teams, all of which are 10-0, lose a game in the next few weeks.
If that happens, and if Georgia and Alabama win their final two regular-season games to carry 11-1 records into the SEC Championship game, the winner of the Dec. 1 game in the Georgia Dome could move into the BCS top two.
Georgia clinched an SEC title game berth by routing Auburn on Saturday. Alabama will be the Bulldogs’ opponent if the Crimson Tide beats Auburn on Nov. 24.
Alabama’s loss to A&M left the SEC without an undefeated team. Six one- or two-loss SEC teams are ranked Nos. 4 through 9 in this week’s BCS standings: Alabama (9-1), Georgia (9-1), Florida (9-1), LSU (8-2), Texas A&M (8-2) and South Carolina (8-2) in that order.
Georgia coach Mark Richt said he won’t dwell on scenarios that might or might not put the Bulldogs in the national title game.
“I’m not going to sit there and say, ‘If this, if that,’” Richt said. “We just know if we can keep winning, there’s a chance. But there will be who-knows-how-many teams thinking they still have a chance.”
If not Richt, plenty of other folks will be looking at the various permutations that could rearrange the BCS standings.
The three unbeaten teams atop the standings, all of which moved up one spot from last week, have some challenging games left on their regular-season schedules.
Kansas State has Big 12 games left against Baylor and Texas (No. 15 BCS). Oregon still must get by Stanford (No. 13), Oregon State (No. 16) and the Pac-12 Championship game. Notre Dame has games left against Wake Forest and USC (No. 18)
“If we win out,” Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray said, “who knows what happens, who might lose? But we can’t worry about that stuff.”
The BCS standings include three components that count one-third each: the USA Today poll of current coaches; the Harris Interactive poll of former coaches, administrators and players and current and former media members; and an average of six computer polls.
Georgia is No. 4 in this week’s USA Today poll (up from No. 5 last week), No. 5 in the Harris poll (same as last week) and No. 6 in the computers (same as last week). Overall, the Bulldogs’ No. 5 position is the same as last week.
Alabama, No. 1 across the board last week, fell to No. 5 in USA Today, No. 4 in Harris and No. 5 in the computers.
Oregon is No. 1 in the USA Today and Harris polls but trails Kansas State in the BCS standings because of the computers, which rank the Ducks No. 4 and the Wildcats No. 2 (behind Notre Dame).
Also, in this week’s Associated Press poll, which is not part of the BCS formula, Alabama is No. 4 and Georgia No. 5. Oregon is AP’s No. 1.
Watch video highlights from UGA’s win over Auburn.
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Mulk
November 12th, 2012
5:36 am
AJ,
Where do you get all these rankings? Who gives a rat’s ass about who is ranked where on 3rd quarter points allowed after a TV timeout? I would think it more important to consider how you get beaten by 35 points against S. Carolina. And, what 3 top 5 teams are you talking about? Their ONLY notable win was over a questionably ranked Florida team. UGA has the 83rd toughest ranked schedule and you are spouting off on Notre Dame’s schedule? And, another thing, don’t use Bama and UGA in the same sentence much less imply them equal.
We Run The East
November 12th, 2012
5:41 am
35-7 suckers. UGA is 3rd best team in East behind SC and Fla. How funny to read UGA fans talk national title when not even one of top 2 teams in division. A team that lay down when challenged (see Oct 6, 2012) ain’t no national title contender. Congrats on technically winning East title, maybe next year UGA can rally go for it and maybe COMPETE (not win- you gotta compete before you win) with SC next year, but i doubt it.
Neutral
November 12th, 2012
5:42 am
@Techfan
In 3 more weeks UGa will be able to say they played 3 teams that have been ranked this season in the “top 3″ in the nation. Bama #1 FL #2 and SC #3…..and all are still in the top 9, and will probably move up.
Neutral
November 12th, 2012
5:54 am
To all the morons who like to say UGa “backed into” the SEC championship. I guess you can now make that case for ANY team that makes it to the NC game because in the 1st BCS poll Bama was #1 and FL #2………now EVERY team in the country can say at some point they sat at home and prayed that other teams would lose so they could back into the championship.
Techfan
November 12th, 2012
5:55 am
When SEC teams lose but never drop out of the top 10, it’s no wonder. Not a major accomplishment when they start there/stay there and everyone else has to be undefeated to even be considered. There’s big money tied up, you can bet they want SEC teams there.
Neutral
November 12th, 2012
5:57 am
@We run…..
Fact……Your team is 3rd by every measure in the world so shut up you moron.
Neutral
November 12th, 2012
5:59 am
@tech fan
You are struggling pal
Techfan
November 12th, 2012
6:01 am
If they’d only played Arkansas, they could have played a pre-season top #10. Oh wait, they did play a pre-season top #25 in Auburn.
Techfan
November 12th, 2012
6:05 am
Our team stinks this year, but I’m willing to admit it. Zero defense doesn’t win many games. A light schedule, however, can get a top #15-#20 team in top #5, if they’re from the SEC.
Techfan
November 12th, 2012
6:08 am
Three 8-2 teams in the top#10, please.
eyeswideopen
November 12th, 2012
6:42 am
what if everyone eles lost and ga mutts won out…the pups ain’t going no where until they start playing an SEC schedule…look back at ga’s season and tell me they deserve a title shot….hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Jomps
November 12th, 2012
6:57 am
I’m guessing Daddo is a bone smuggler!
derekross
November 12th, 2012
7:02 am
UGA can’t help that Tech is crap year in and out. Otherwise they may have had a decent schedule. Bama hasn’t played anyone either. Right now, Georgia is looking better than Bama.
Bama doesn’t have an offense and the defense can be exposed by a good QB. All UGA has to do is stop the Bama run and run a smooth balanced offense to keep Bama off guard.
Jomps
November 12th, 2012
7:06 am
@we run the east,
You must be a die hard Cock. The dawgs beat Florida who in turn kicked your sorry butts. When was the last time your team was in Atlanta..Oh yeah, your storied program has been to the title game 1 time and got the living crap beat out of you by Auburn. Win a game of significance before you come to this site and ramble on about the lamecocks. Clemson is going to whip you and send you to the music city bowl.
Doug
November 12th, 2012
7:14 am
Yet to figure out why you guys always write a long narrative without a list of the BCS standings.
WOOF
November 12th, 2012
7:21 am
Daddo,
You are living in a RED NECK FANTACY WORLD if you think that everybody looks to alabama in regard to respect. Alabama spends more time in Georgia when recruiting than any other state (other than their own) and there is a very respectable reason why they do. Struggling greatly against LSU and loosing against Texas A&M and you want respect? Pssshhh
Wutehvah
November 12th, 2012
7:32 am
An angry Bama team is gonna pummel the flea-bitten Dawgs. OUCH
chilidawg
November 12th, 2012
7:42 am
Poo poo the top three all you want, but the fact is we had a weak schedule. We took a Rodney King type beatdown in the game that would have made our best case for going to the MNC.
DIT
November 12th, 2012
7:43 am
Wow, my tech friends on here pumping their chests pretty proudly this morning. The schedule is what it is. It’s set up years in advance. As for the OOC, if UGA’s OOC is to be stronger tech needs to field a much better team or drop them all together. A weak schedule will not be spoken of next year.
Where’s all the Bama people this morning. Roll Tide, Ain’t nothing stopping the tide(or something like that) etc……. I still think the Dawgs will lose the SEC CG, but maybe by not as much as I first anticipated. It’s tough to stay undefeated in the SEC. Though I do believe that Bama thought A&M was going to roll over and bow to them in the 1st quarter. That 20-0 score had everyone surprised but A&M. I congratulate A&M on a well played game and hanging tough on the road.
I don’t agree with Bama staying in the top 5. They should have been somewhere between 9-12. Just my opinion of course.
ptarmagintrav
November 12th, 2012
7:48 am
It amazes me that most UGA grads can’t make change for a dollar, but this time, every year, they are somehow capable of concocting some theoretical mathematics equation that puts the Dawgs in the BCS game.
Techfan
November 12th, 2012
7:53 am
Saying our team stinks this year (mainly our defense) is “pumping our chests”? I’m evidently out of the loop for modern idioms on the “chest pumping” thing. As a critical care RN, I have pumped a few chests in my life. It’s usually not a good sign.
BobDawg
November 12th, 2012
7:55 am
@WE RUN… Sorry Dude, but you have to play all the teams on your schedule and win out which you did not… You were feeling warm and cozy after beating us and then saw that you wet your pants… LOL…
Joe 12Pack
November 12th, 2012
8:00 am
This thread represents everything that is wrong with college football. Everybody SPECULATING on who is better than who, looking at stats and schedules, comparing apples to oranges. It’s a popularity contest and it is full of BIAS, Bottom line is this: they ought to settle it on the field. Nobody should have a say in “who would beat who” except those two particular teams, on the field. Take the top 8 teams and settle it on the field. Win or go home. Easy.
DIT
November 12th, 2012
8:02 am
Lighten up Frances. You sit there behind your PC and knock UGA saying they stink. Bad schedule etc…. Your schedule is eaually as soft and yet you lose half the games. Your jeolous of UGA so you want to sit there and bad mouth them. Metaphorically speaking on the pumping chest comment, but maybe that was over your head. Your pumping your chest on here about your claim that UGA is so bad, the SEC is over rated. It’s garbage and you know it.
BobDawg
November 12th, 2012
8:03 am
@JOE 4 SHORT OF A 12 PACK… Dude, the playoff is coming with +4 in a year or two…. Where have you been???
DIT
November 12th, 2012
8:04 am
@Joe 12Pack – If I had a vote I would say an 8 team playoff over a 4 team playoff as well. Let the teams play it out on the field. There will be no room for argueing and who backed in etc.
papadawg
November 12th, 2012
8:11 am
The biggest hurdle for the DAWGS or Bama is the sports world will do whatever they can to get their precious Notre Dame in the title game.
Hate GT
November 12th, 2012
8:16 am
Srappy – You are the MAN!
ONE GAME AT A TIME!
Techfan
November 12th, 2012
8:16 am
I’d go with a 32 team playoff. It could be done in 5 weeks. That way a 12-0 or 11-1 team that’s not ranked in the top 8, like say a 10-2 (or possibly a 9-3) SEC team might be would get a shot.
Techfan
November 12th, 2012
8:22 am
Plus, unless my math is off, (and at this hour for a night shift nurse who needs to get to sleep it may be) a 32 team playoff would support 31 bowl games.
Techfan
November 12th, 2012
8:24 am
Dang, and forgot: That way all of the bowls would count towards something so it should pump attendance for the lower tier bowls.
Chuck Allison
November 12th, 2012
8:25 am
UGAg lost to SC 35-7. Why should UGAg think they are competitive with teams like Bama?
mt
November 12th, 2012
8:31 am
To DADDO
Don’t think too many people expected the Dawgs to be ranked ahead of the Gumps in the BCS poll,even us die hard Georgia fans.
If the Dawgs win in the Dome then that problem will take care of itself.I’ve been saying ever since Bama
played Michigan that they could be beat.
mt
November 12th, 2012
8:33 am
@Chuck Allison
UGAg lost to SC 35-7
Notice what they done to the team that did beat SC. You ought to get out more often.
mt
November 12th, 2012
8:36 am
Alabama will smash into the dwags like a freight train going a hundred miles an hour. They’ll never know what hit them.
This message brought to you by another troll who thought the Dawgs had no chance against Florida.
Bobby B
November 12th, 2012
8:37 am
Thanks daddo for the a.m. laugh. Tradition and eye test I can buy….class was just funny as hayull!
dawg
November 12th, 2012
8:37 am
Guys, If Oregon and Notre Dame (who isnt that good) play in the SEC they lose at least 2-3 games a year, just my opinion. I do not think UGA should play for an NC this year…they simply do not deserve it. And lets be honest, Oregon would beat the poo out of us. If the South Carolina game was respectable (and it wasnt) maybe my opinion changes, but NC caliber teams do not show up and look like that. I do think we will be competitive with Bama, I guess we will all find out wont we. We better watch our a*ses against GT. They are scoring lots of points.
mt
November 12th, 2012
8:41 am
Wutehvah
An angry Bama team is gonna pummel the flea-bitten Dawgs. OUCH
Yep anyone’s guess. Could be a Tech ,Gator or even a troll from the Gumps.
CDAWG
November 12th, 2012
8:47 am
I think A&M is one maybe the best team in the Country. I was highly impressed when they played Florida. I would rather play anyone other than A&M. Alabama just came off the game against LSU to face A&M; that is tough to do. Our biggest problem is getting up mentally each week, we have the talent although I sure do miss Bennett!
Neutral
November 12th, 2012
8:50 am
Tech fan,
ALL of your posts are soooooo stupid!!! GT may be playing in the ACC championship game with a 6-6 record and could finish the year at 6-8 if they lose the championship game and bowl which seems to happen frequently. Says a lot about the ACC doesn’t it???
The Commissioner
November 12th, 2012
8:51 am
How is it that Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia Tech fans are on here talking smack? Alabama lost to Texas A&M…Texas A&M was not ranked as high as South Carolina when South Carolina handed Georgia their behinds. Carolina then actually showed that they were the most over-rated team in the East by losing 2 games straight during a time when all the media was saying that “they are the team to beat in the NCAA this year and could take it all the way”. And then these Tech nerds get on here and try to make an SEC argument when they play in the ACC (Athletically Challenged Conference)…If you’re not a Georgia fan, you probably shouldn’t blog on here today…and give Florida fans credit – they’re not talking garbage like the rest of you…I will say, also, it’s nice to see the Bama fans are still keeping their mouths shut. Exposed with no national championship to play for. Will they beat Georgia? Probably. They’re expected to. But it appears that their secondary is not what it was initially defined as. The last 2 weeks have shown kinks in the armor. They are coming down off of a high…and Georgia, at this point, appears to be looking better. Guess we’ll have to wait and see…
dawg
November 12th, 2012
8:53 am
CDawg, you are exactly right..NOBODY is talking about Bennett. I think that is one of the reasons (Clowney was another) we laid an offensive egg against SC. Offense was trying to gel without him and couldnt. The guy is by no means the best athlete on the field, but he hustles every play, blocks well and catches everything they throw him.
dawgfacedboy
November 12th, 2012
8:58 am
Wait, UGa loses on the road to the #7 team and Bama loses at home to the #15 team yet they are ranked ahead of us? Interesting.
mt
November 12th, 2012
9:04 am
the pups ain’t going no where until they start playing an SEC schedule
Lets see,
Missouri-SEC
South Carolina-SEC
Vanderbilt-SEC
Kentucky-SEC
Ole Miss-SEC
Florida-SEC
Auburn-SEC
Tennessee-SEC
Where were all these UGA schedule critcs in 2008 when we were rated having the roughest schedule in the nation. FL, SC, Bama, LSU, Ariz.St.
It’s bad when these so called SEC fans don’t know that its because of schedule rotation that teams in opposite divisons don’t play ever year. Anyone notice that Florida didn’t play Alabama or Auburn this year? SC didn’t play Bama or Mississippi St. Mark Richt doesn’t make the schdeules.
PR
November 12th, 2012
9:07 am
Don’t you worry Tech Fan… GT will get their shot to prove how “weak” the SEC is in two weeks.
Danny Ford
November 12th, 2012
9:08 am
Sports media is pushing Notre Dame just like the news (?) media pushed the Liberal agenda for Barry H.
AJ
November 12th, 2012
9:11 am
So, in 2006, voters went for 13-1 Florida over 13-0 Boise St?
In 2008, voters went for 13-1 Florida over 13-0 Utah?
But in 2012, with the SEC having 6 teams ranked in the top 10 right now, the best conference by a mile, no 1 loss SEC team is ahead of Kansas State, Oregon, or Notre Dame?
What changed since 2006 & 2008? Why doesn’t UGA get the same standard applied as Urban Meyer got in 2006 & 2008 with his 1 loss teams in the midst of 2 undefeated teams Boise St n 2006, and Utah in 2008?
Alabama Dog
November 12th, 2012
9:14 am
I agree with Lamar’s previous comments. What, if anything, can Georgia do to move ahead of Alabama in the polls? Looks like even IF they beat Alabama in the SECCG, Alabama would STILL be ranked above them! Alabama loses AT HOME to a lower ranked opponent, and only falls three spots. Georgia, on the other hand, SHUTS OUT an opponent ON THE ROAD, and doesn’t move at all! Let’s face it Dawg fans, this is a beauty contest, and we are the UGLY girl in it!
Lee Douglas
November 12th, 2012
9:14 am
Are you bunch of morons on here really complaining about having Tech on the schedule and pulling your non conference strength of schedule down???? Buffalo, FAU, and Ga Southern aren’t exactly powerhouses. The SEC sure is playing some good matchups in November
Florida vs ULL
UGA vs Ga Southern
Florida vs Jax St.
SC vs Wofford
Ut vs Troy
Bama vs Western Carolina
AM vs Sam Houston State
I know I know the rigors of that SEC schedule you guys are lucky to have a team in November.
Bama better hope they don’t backdoor in the BCS game against Oregon you already saw what that Oregon cast off Johnny football did to them.
Bazooka Joe
November 12th, 2012
9:17 am
AJ, put the pipe down and slowly back away…. I am as big a Dawg fan as anyone but first we have 3 games left, lets worry about those.
IF we win out, the only way we go to NCG is if 2 of the 3 unbeatens lose. You do not put a team that has lost (and lost 35-7 at that) ahead of an unbeaten from a major conference (big east and possibly acc dont count). Now, you want to talk about how ND barely won some games… well we barely beat UK (winless in conference), beat UT by 7 (arent they winless in conference as well ?), let Buffalo and Fla Atlantic put up huge offensive numbers and some points. Lets face it – we did it to ourselves and we might have to pay the price for that. Of course if we lose to Bama its a moot point, and trust me that will be a very hard game to win.