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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krieg" data-source="post: 1939512" data-attributes="member: 5282">2003 Rose Bowl Okies vs Washington State. The BCS has been around for more than this year. Six voters dropped Cal from to 7th or lower on the coaches poll the last week of the season, the week before one of those voters had them 6th and everyone else had them higher. Texas was also moved up by several voters, including one who voted them #1 overall but who had previously voted them 5th. That point difference was directly responsible for dropping Cal in the BCS standing.Your claim that Texas lost ground in the polls is inaccurate.Yes it is very likely that Big12 coaches put the fiix in under the cover of anonymity to ensure their conference sibling a BCS bid & themselves their share of a larger bowl payoff. Even if the poll movement was entirely innocent, you still have a situation where there is a considerable conflict of interest for voters in the coaching poll The fact is that the system as currently set up is no better than those preceding it. It allows media darlings & teams that can run the table in weak conferences  an inside track to playing for a mythical national champion.Well at least Pitt proved that the Big East deserves to keep their automatic bid. lol</blockquote>