Don't look now, but...

...it's Texas Tech 27, Oklahoma 7 with 9:18 left in the second quarter, and OU's starting quarterback, Sam Bradford, is out of the game. Shades of Oregon/Dixon?

An upset by the Red Raiders would be great news for West Virginia, Ohio State and Arizona State, as they could then root for the Big 12 South champ -- be it Oklahoma or Texas -- to beat next week's Kansas-Missouri winner in the conference championship game, thus taking the Big 12 out of the BCS title picture entirely. (Sorry, Kansas, but a one-loss Jayhawks squad would be behind all the other one-loss teams in the pecking order, and possibly also two-loss Georgia, Virginia Tech and USC.)

UPDATE: I'm glad OU is going to lose, but how was that not a touchdown?

UPDATE 2: Texas Tech wins, 34-27. They are the eleventh unranked team to knock off a Top 5 team this season!

Next week: #2 Kansas vs. #3 Missouri! In football! LOL!

P.S. For those keeping track at home, here's an update on USC's slim national-championship hopes.

The two-loss Trojans can't pass one-loss Ohio State, whose season is finished, so they need all of the following teams to lose: LSU (Arkansas next Sat., SEC title game vs. Tennessee/Georgia 12/1), Kansas/Missouri (whoever wins next Sat. must lose the Big 12 title game against Oklahoma/Texas 12/1), West Virginia (UConn next Sat., Pitt 12/1), Georgia (at Georgia Tech next Sat., possibly SEC title game 12/1), Virginia Tech (at Virginia next Sat.; if they win that one, then ACC title game 12/1), Oregon (at UCLA next Sat., Oregon State 12/1).

If all six of those teams lose, and both USC and Oklahoma win out, there would be a debate about who should be #2, the 11-2 Big 12 champion or the 10-2 Pac-10 champion. I would think Oklahoma probably gets the better of that debate, since they didn't lose at home to Stanford... so it would help USC's chances if the Sooners would lose to Oklahoma State next Saturday. Of course, that would send Texas to the Big 12 title game if the Longhorns win beat A&M next Saturday, in which case there might be a USC vs. Texas debate for the #2 spot... so it would be ideal if both Oklahoma State and A&M could pull upsets next week. Oh yeah, and a two-loss LSU team might be in the mix if they lose next week but then win the SEC title game, so it would ideal for 'SC if the Tigers could lose both games... but not to a two-loss Georgia team in the title game. So basically, Georgia needs to lose to Georgia Tech next week, and then either they or Tennessee need to win the SEC title game. Man, this gets more and more difficult the more I think about it. :)

I don't think anyone else, including 11-1 or 12-1 Kansas, 12-0 Hawaii, 11-2 ACC champions Boston College or Virginia, or 10-2 Big East champion UConn, would finish ahead of USC. (Hawaii's computer numbers are just too awful, even if they were to finish #2 in both polls.) Of course, I could be wrong. In particular, if Kansas beats Missouri but then loses a close one in the Big 12 title game, they'd have a decent case. Then again, the Big 12 South champion's stock just plummeted, so maybe not.

Comments

[Jay Johnson]

Sure looked like one to me.

[Jim Hu]

Note that if they had kicked FGs on 4th down they would have been able to tie by going for 2 on the last TD.

[Sandy Underpants]

I'm more confident that all those teams lose than I am that USC wins out. What's up with this years offense? It's like they're playing with concrete sneakers or something. With that said, I expect Booty and company to catch fire in the desert and blast ASU 50-13 creating the next great CFB BCS debate.