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Tuesday, November 5, 2002
Ohio State leapfrogs Miami
at No. 2 spot in new BCS poll
(AP) Look who’s No. 2 in
the new Bowl Championship
Series standings.
Ohio State, helped by a big
quality win over Washington
State earlier this year and
Miami's drop in The
Associated Press poll, has
overtaken the Hurricanes in the
standings released Monday.
The Buckeyes jumped three
spots and nudged past defend
ing champion Miami, which
stayed unbeaten while posting
its school-record 30th straight
win Saturday, 42-17 over
Rutgers.
But the Hurricanes had to
rally in the fourth quarter, and
that cost them. Oklahoma
remained No. 1 with 2.04
points, while Ohio State moved
into second with 5.57 points,
and Miami was third with
6.01 points.
The top two teams in the
final BCS standings released
Dec. 8 will play in the national
title game at the Fiesta Bowl in
Tempe, Ariz., on Jan. 3.
“We are proud of what our
young men have done to date,”
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel
said. “But we know if we don’t
play our best road game of the
year at Purdue, we won’t be
No. 2 next week.”
Ohio State has a 6.17 com
posite total, compared with
Miami's 6.01. But the
Buckeyes got a 0.6 deduction
for a 25-7 victory over
Washington State on Sept. 14.
Miami has no bonus-point
deductions.
The quality win deductions
were added last year after
Miami failed to make the
national championship game
over Florida State following
the 2000 season despite beat
ing the Seminoles earlier in
the year.
The Hurricanes’ struggles
against lowly Rutgers dropped
them to No. 2 in the AP media
poll. A component of the BCS
standings includes the average
of the AP media and coaches
polls. Miami is No. 1 in the
coaches poll, giving it a 1.5
poll average.
If Miami had stayed No. 1
in both polls, its poll average
would have been 1 — putting
the Hurricanes 0.06 points
ahead of the Buckeyes.
”1 can't be overly concerned
about what the pollsters do,”
Miami coach Larry Coker said
Monday about the AP media
poll. “First of all it will be easy
to rate us if we don’t play bet
ter. The thing we have to do is
make sure we get it corrected
and win the games. If we do
that, the polls will take care
of themselves.
“I know that sounds like a
broken record, but I really
believe it’s true.”
Miami (8-0) trailed 17-14
entering the fourth quarter at
Rutgers. Oklahoma (8-0),
meanwhile, dominated then-
No. 13 Colorado 27-11, and
that was enough to change
the poll.
The Hurricanes lost 27 first-
place votes to Oklahoma and
had their record run of 21 con
secutive polls at No. 1 snapped.
“Nobody wants us in the
national championship game,”
Miami tailback Willis
McGahee said. “The minute we
lose we’ll probably fall down
to No. 10. 1 don’t know why
there are so many haters.”
The BCS formula uses the
AP media and coaches’ polls,
computer polls, strength of
schedule, won-loss record and
a bonus-point system.
Oklahoma has 2.04 points
— 1.5 for poll average, 1 for
computer-rank average, 0.24
for strength of schedule, zero
for losses and a 0.7 deduction
for a victory over Texas.
Ohio State has 5.57 points
— 3 for poll average, 2.33 for
computer-rank average, 0.84
for strength of schedule and a
0.6 deduction for the victory
over Washington State.
Miami has 6.01 points —
1.5 for poll average, 2.67 for
computer-rank average, 1.84
for schedule rank and no
bonus-point deduction.
Texas is fourth at 10.03 fol
lowed by Washington State
(13.05) and Georgia (15.03).
Notre Dame dropped four spots
to No. 7 with 15.33 points after
losing to Boston College.
In the next few weeks, the
Hurricanes have a chance of
passing the Buckeyes. Their
strength of schedule will go up
with games at Tennessee (5-3)
this week, then No. 22
Pittsburgh (7-2), Syracuse (3-6)
and No. 8 Virginia Tech (8-1).
Big wins in any of those
games could put them back at
No. 1 in the AP poll as well.
Ohio State, meanwhile, has
games remaining at Illinois (3-
6) and against No. 13 Michigan
(7-2).
Oklahoma looks like it is in
the driver’s seat, with games
remaining against Texas A&M
(5-4), Baylor (3-6), Texas Tech
(6-4) and Oklahoma State (4-
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