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College Football | Texas tops one-loss teams
Alabama and Texas Tech, with their perfect records, remained the top teams in the Bowl Championship Series standings Sunday. Texas, Florida and Oklahoma...
NEW YORK — Alabama and Texas Tech, with their perfect records, remained the top teams in the Bowl Championship Series standings Sunday. Texas, Florida and Oklahoma, each with one loss, are lurking and ready to take advantage if a front-runner falls.
Penn State's 24-23 loss at Iowa on Saturday left the Crimson Tide and Raiders as the lone unbeaten teams from BCS conferences, making it rather easy to sort out the all-important first two places in the BCS standings this week.
First-place Alabama (.9814 BCS average) was No. 1 in both the USA Today coaches and Harris Interactive polls. Second-place Texas Tech (.9715) was a solid second in both polls and first in the computer rankings. The computers rank Alabama second.
Texas (.8798) was third, followed closely by Florida (.8640) and Oklahoma (.8444).
Sixth-place USC (.7896) needs quite a bit of help to reach the BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 8 in Miami. Undefeated Utah (.7692) is seventh. Penn State (.6839) dropped from third to eighth.
Alabama and Texas Tech, each 10-0, are on course to meet in the BCS title showdown if they stay unbeaten.
The Crimson Tide clinched the Southeastern Conference West title by winning 27-21 in overtime at Louisiana State.
Alabama will play SEC East winner Florida for the conference title on Dec. 6 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. That SEC showdown could amount to a national semifinal, with the winner earning a berth in the BCS title game.
Computer rankings are helping Texas stay at the top of the one-loss pack. The Longhorns are fourth in the Harris poll, close behind Florida, and fifth in the coaches poll, not far behind both Florida and Oklahoma, a team Texas beat.
The computers prefer Texas and Utah over both Florida and Oklahoma.
On Nov. 22, Oklahoma hosts Texas Tech in the latest Big 12 Conference game with national-title implications.
If the Sooners win, there will be a three-way tie for first place in the Big 12 South (unless Texas loses to Kansas this weekend). If the Sooners, Longhorns and Raiders finish deadlocked, the tiebreaker to determine who plays in the Big 12 championship game in Kansas City, Mo., on Dec. 6 is best BCS average.
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Utah is positioned for its second BCS bid in five seasons if it can stay unbeaten. The Utes, from the Mountain West Conference, need to finish in the top 12 of the BCS standings to earn an automatic bid to one of the five major bowls. Unbeaten Boise State from the Western Athletic Conference is in ninth place. To get an automatic BCS bid, the Broncos must stay undefeated and pass Utah in the BCS standings.
AP top 25
The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:
| Record | Pts | Pvs | |
| 1. Alabama (44) | 10-0 | 1,604 | 1 |
| 2. Texas Tech (21) | 10-0 | 1,574 | 2 |
| 3. Florida | 8-1 | 1,467 | 4 |
| 4. Texas | 9-1 | 1,437 | 5 |
| 5. Oklahoma | 9-1 | 1,375 | 6 |
| 6. USC | 8-1 | 1,311 | 7 |
| 7. Penn St. | 9-1 | 1,161 | 3 |
| 8. Utah | 10-0 | 1,157 | 10 |
| 9. Boise St. | 9-0 | 1,110 | 9 |
| 10. Ohio St. | 8-2 | 1,009 | 12 |
| 11. Oklahoma St. | 8-2 | 963 | 8 |
| 12. Missouri | 8-2 | 913 | 13 |
| 13. Georgia | 8-2 | 880 | 14 |
| 14. Ball St. | 9-0 | 677 | 16 |
| 15. TCU | 9-2 | 623 | 11 |
| 16. BYU | 9-1 | 602 | 17 |
| 17. North Carolina | 7-2 | 597 | 19 |
| 18. Michigan St. | 9-2 | 584 | 18 |
| 19. LSU | 6-3 | 552 | 15 |
| 20. Florida St. | 7-2 | 380 | 24 |
| 21. Pittsburgh | 7-2 | 318 | 25 |
| 22. Cincinnati | 7-2 | 269 | — |
| 23. Oregon St. | 6-3 | 124 | — |
| 24. South Carolina | 7-3 | 117 | — |
| 25. Tulsa | 8-1 | 84 | — |
USA Today top 25
The Top 25 teams in the USA Today college football coaches poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:
| Record | Pts | Pvs | |
| 1. Alabama (44) | 10-0 | 1,508 | 1 |
| 2. Texas Tech (17) | 10-0 | 1,469 | 3 |
| 3. Florida | 8-1 | 1,348 | 5 |
| 4. Oklahoma | 9-1 | 1,314 | 4 |
| 5. Texas | 9-1 | 1,300 | 7 |
| 6. USC | 8-1 | 1,268 | 6 |
| 7. Utah | 10-0 | 1,104 | 9 |
| 8. Penn State | 9-1 | 1,074 | 2 |
| 9. Boise State | 9-0 | 1,028 | 10 |
| 10. Ohio State | 8-2 | 936 | 12 |
| 11. Missouri | 8-2 | 883 | 13 |
| 12. Georgia | 8-2 | 842 | 14 |
| 13. Oklahoma State | 8-2 | 808 | 8 |
| 14. Brigham Young | 9-1 | 679 | 16 |
| 15. Michigan State | 9-2 | 660 | 17 |
| 16. Ball State | 9-0 | 590 | 18 |
| 17. North Carolina | 7-2 | 543 | 19 |
| 18. TCU | 9-2 | 475 | 11 |
| 19. Florida State | 7-2 | 426 | 24 |
| 20. LSU | 6-3 | 409 | 15 |
| 21. Pittsburgh | 7-2 | 311 | NR |
| 22. Cincinnati | 7-2 | 183 | NR |
| 23. South Carolina | 7-3 | 155 | NR |
| 24. Tulsa | 8-1 | 144 | NR |
| 25. Oregon State | 6-3 | 71 | NR |
Harris top 25
The Top 25 teams in the Harris Interactive College Football Poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking:
| Record | Pts | Pvs | |
| 1. Alabama (75) | 10-0 | 2,808 | 1 |
| 2. Texas Tech (38) | 10-0 | 2,768 | 3 |
| 3. Florida (1) | 8-1 | 2,531 | 4 |
| 4. Texas | 9-1 | 2,471 | 6 |
| 5. Oklahoma | 9-1 | 2,427 | 5 |
| 6. USC | 8-1 | 2,329 | 7 |
| 7. Penn State | 9-1 | 2,073 | 2 |
| 8. Utah | 10-0 | 2,034 | 9 |
| 9. Boise State | 9-0 | 1,940 | 10 |
| 10. Ohio State | 8-2 | 1,765 | 11 |
| 11. Missouri | 8-2 | 1,585 | 13 |
| 12. Georgia | 8-2 | 1,581 | 14 |
| 13. Oklahoma State | 8-2 | 1,488 | 8 |
| 14. BYU | 9-1 | 1,335 | 16 |
| 15. Ball State | 9-0 | 1,231 | 17 |
| 16. Michigan State | 9-2 | 1,122 | 18 |
| 17. North Carolina | 7-2 | 995 | 19 |
| 18. TCU | 9-2 | 975 | 12 |
| 19. LSU | 6-3 | 806 | 15 |
| 20. Florida State | 7-2 | 708 | 24 |
| 21. Pittsburgh | 7-2 | 558 | NR |
| 22. Tulsa | 8-1 | 342 | 25 |
| 23. Cincinnati | 7-2 | 331 | NR |
| 24. South Carolina | 7-3 | 147 | NR |
| 25. California | 6-3 | 120 | 21 |
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