Georgia and Bama from the SEC to be a third undefeated team.

This will not happen with these two teams or any two teams from the SEC. Because of the SEC Championship game in Atlanta every year.

I think he was using Georgia and Alabama as an either/or situation, he is well aware of the fact there is an SEC title game.

On a side note, the BCS is probably pleased that there are no undefeateds left in the smaller conferences this year. I believe UTEP was the last to fall.

Update....Oct 10, 2005

I still have hopes for another screw-up.
these are the major undefeated teams left....

1. usc
2. texas
3. virginia tech
4. florida state
5. georgia
6. alabama
8. penn state
12. ucla
13. texas tech

uga and bama would play in sec championship
va tech and fsu would play in acc championship
usc and ucla play each other
texas tech and texas play each other

As you see some of these teams will bump each other off. I just need three for more controversy.

Horns have it all -- but the numbers won't add up
By Matt Hayes - SportingNews

Matt Hayes
SportingNews.com

We were waiting for it -- shoot, begging for it. Texas had done everything possible in tossing aside five years of agony. The only thing remaining in the Red River Rout was a Heisman Trophy moment for quarterback Vince Young. You know, the unforgettable, overplayed, can-you-believe-that highlight that turns a pack of voters into cheerleaders.

Wouldn't you know it? Big Rod Wright, Texas' trash-talkin', hot-doggin' defensive tackle, stole the show -- all 315 pounds of him rumbling down the field with an exclamation point 67-yard fumble return for a touchdown.

"I was just as surprised as anybody," Wright says. "I didn't know if I was going to make it."

This just in: Texas may not, either.

The Longhorns are playing better than any team in the country. They have a better win (at Ohio State) than any team in the country. They have the best player (Young) in the country. But unless Texas gets help and someone knocks off USC (see: Notre Dame), the Longhorns may not have enough juice to make it to the Rose Bowl national title game.

It's a numbers game, people -- and they're not adding up. The Big 12 probably is the fourth- or fifth-best BCS conference; it's Texas and the 11 dwarves. And the BCS is the evil queen.

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
When will Texas take a fall?

The BCS boys swear up and down that those confounding computer polls aren't biased and that strength of schedule isn't factored into their convoluted equations. Although the first BCS poll won't be released until next week, we already know the computers don't like Texas: Five of the six had Texas eighth going into last week's games. If Virginia Tech and Florida State remain unbeaten, the winner of the ACC championship game could jump Texas. And let's not even get started with Georgia, which would have a stronger argument than anyone's if it stays unbeaten in the SEC.

Yet here is Texas, a year after benefiting from the BCS numbers, potentially being hurt by them. How does 13-0 and no national championship sound? Ask Auburn. "We've learned," says Young, "that you have to take care of yourself."

There's no better example than this year's Red River Rivalry. In the last five years, Texas lost this game in every conceivable manner -- blowout, shutout, rip your heart out. You name it, the Horns experienced it.

So coach Mack Brown began game preparations last week by telling his team they were going to do everything possible to change the outcome. They would play aggressively on both sides of the ball, they would attack instead of react, they would force their will -- their tempo -- on Oklahoma.

For the first time under Brown, the first-team units went live against each other in practice. The defense ran the same blitz packages OU uses, with the same stunts used at the line of scrimmage. The staff wanted Young to see the scheme with first-team speed, not scout-team speed. This would enable him to recognize the schemes quicker and to adjust the protections and his reads on the option. "I was seeing everything," Young says. "I've never felt more comfortable at the line of scrimmage."

And Brown never looked more comfortable on the sideline. With Texas leading, 17-6, late in the second quarter, the Longhorns got a stop on defense and took over at their 30 with 55 seconds to play. In previous years, Brown would have sat on the ball. Not this time. "They didn't have to tell me they wanted another shot," Brown says.

Two plays later, Young threw a beautiful deep ball to Billy Pittman for a 64-yard touchdown. About two hours later, on the wrong end of a 45-12 score, OU coach Bob Stoops looked a whole lot like Brown of years past -- sitting at a podium with an exasperated look, talking about an interference call that took away an interception and turned the momentum. You know, one of those you-never-know-what-would've-happened-had-it-gone-the-other-way sort of excuses.

Sort of sounds like Auburn, circa 2004.

Just might be Texas, 2005.

Senior writer Matt Hayes covers college football for Sporting News. E-mail him at mhayes@sportingnews.com.

I'm not even gonna dignify this with a response. It makes me sick every year becauae i'm a HUGE college football fan. A playof = HUGE MONEY. Why they won't do it is beyond me

I thought this was pretty interesting because I figured if Texas ran the table that they would be a lock for the national championship. Although I would like to see Mack Brown get left out of the national championship in this fashion considering he basically begged to get Texas in the BCS last year over Cal.

Maybe so, but looking back, don't you think Texas deserved it far more than Cal did?

I don't think they deserved it far more - they might as well have flipped a coin.

It's not like it matters anyway. Baylor is about to run the table on the rest of the Big 12 South.