Alabama
and Florida State held the top two positions in the first Bowl
Championship Series standings that were released Sunday and, if they
maintain their spots, would play for the national title in Pasadena,
Calif., on Jan. 6.“We haven’t won anything. We haven’t done anything,”
FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher said Saturday after the Seminoles pounded
No. 3 Clemson, 51-14, in Death Valley. “But the next games get bigger
and bigger.”Even if the Seminoles win out, Oregon could pass them due to
a stronger strength of schedule the rest of the way. Only once in the
15-year history of the BCS have the top two teams at the start remained
there through the end of the season: in 2005 when Southern Cal and Texas
were always 1-2.The BCS is a composite ranking of teams based on votes
in the USA Today and Harris polls, as well as six computer
calculations.The Seminoles ranked No. 1 with the computers, but No. 3 in
the USA Today poll of coaches. Oregon is No.Wholesale Lingerie Sexy Lingerie 3 in the BCS poll — No. 2 in the human rankings,Isuzu Auto Partsjust
in front of FSU — due to a less favorable verdict from the
computers.The Noles aren’t the only unbeaten Florida school with
national title hopes.Miami, thanks to a brutal weekend for a handful of
top-10 teams, climbed to No. 7 in the BCS and Associated Press polls. It
is the highest the Hurricanes have been ranked since the 2005 season
when they made it as high as No. 3.Not everyone is sold on UM as an
elite team, though.“Miami,canada goose jacket women we
saw them [barely edge North Carolina on Thursday], and the Hurricanes
looked awful and somehow moved up five spots [by the coaches],” said
ESPN college football analyst Rece Davis. “Survive and advance is what
Miami did.”
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welcome choose! opening the door for UM.The Canes and Seminoles square
off Nov. 2 in Tallahassee.With the Florida Gators dropping out of the
top 25, UM is the last remaining ranked team left on the Seminoles’
schedule. FSU could also face No. 14 (BCS) Virginia Tech — Nike Air Maxif
not another showdown with Miami — in the ACC Championship Game in
December.Oregon has games remaining against three teams currently ranked
in the AP Top 25, including No. 6 Stanford.Still, Fisher and the
Seminoles were beaming after Saturday’s statement win at Clemson.“We
have a heckuva team,” Fisher said. “We’ve got a lot of ball to play, and
if we keep taking care of business, the country will see, and we’ll get
to where we got to go. I’m not scared to play anyone.”While Saturday’s
first BCS rankings were cause for joy in Tallahassee, the folks in
Tuscaloosa have grown accustomed to the Crimson Tide’s lofty status.
Alabama has won the past two national titles.After Alabama, Florida
State and Oregon, a couple of other unbeaten teams — Ohio State and
Missouri — round out the top five in the BCS.This is the final year of
the BCS, which will give way to a playoff next season.Miami Herald
sportswriter Susan Miller Degnan and Miami Herald writer Patrik Nohe
contributed to this report.
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