The computers have spoken, uttering forth this week’s BCS top 25 rankings. The Oregon Ducks and Auburn Tigers are still in line to play in the BCS National Championship, with the Tigers only .06 of a point behind Oregon. But a slip by either could permit the Boise St. Broncos to crash the biggest party. Though the Broncos remain in fourth behind the TCU Horned Frogs, Boise has gained the inside track, sneaking into third place in both human polls.
With only one game left — and that game against the New Mexico Lobos, one of the nation’s worst teams — TCU has to hope for a Boise loss. The Broncos will pass TCU if the Broncos dominate what’s now a very big game against the Nevada Wolf Pack, suddenly the nation’s No. 18 team. That would give Boise three wins over teams ranked at game time. Couple that with the fact that they’ve obliterated every inferior opponent they’ve played, and the undefeated Broncos would at least be a strong consideration against a one-loss SEC champion.
TCU’s five-point win over the San Diego St. Aztecs, which dropped them in the eyes of both the AP Poll and USA Today Coaches’ Poll, may have killed their national title chances.
- Oregon Ducks
- Auburn Tigers
- Boise St. Broncos
- TCU Horned Frogs
- LSU Tigers
- Stanford Cardinal
- Wisconsin Badgers
- Nebraska Cornhuskers
- Ohio St. Buckeyes
- Oklahoma St. Cowboys
- Alabama Crimson Tide
- Michigan St. Spartans
- Arkansas Razorbacks
- Oklahoma Sooners
- Missouri Tigers
- Virginia Tech Hokies
- South Carolina Gamecocks
- Nevada Wolf Pack
- Texas A&M Aggies
- Iowa Hawkeyes
- Mississippi St. Bulldogs
- Arizona Wildcats
- Utah Utes
- Miami Hurricanes
- Florida St. Seminoles