In BCS poll, they're sitting Ducks.Byline: Bob Clark For the 19th century baseball player, see Bob Clark (baseball) Benjamin "Bob" Clark (August 5 1939[] – April 4 2007) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the The Register-Guard Oregon went to work Monday - or at least the Ducks who were able to practice did - behind closed gates at Autzen Stadium The stadium is tucked between the Willamette River and Coburg Hills. The uniquely shaped bowl blends in with the wooded Eugene landscape. The shape also allows for unique acoustics, making it one of the loudest stadiums in NCAA Football for its capacity. , saying their attention is on Oregon State and not the latest Bowl Championship Series rankings that came out earlier in the day. `We've got to take care of this game before we get too far down that road,' UO senior defensive end Devan Long said of the ratings that could determine the bowl destination for the Ducks. The Ducks are correct in saying they won't have to worry about the BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. if they don't beat Oregon State on Saturday in the 109th Civil War, and little changed in the latest BCS ranking anyway. Oregon is 10th in the BCS poll, as the Ducks were last week. To be chosen as an at-large team to play in a BCS game such as the Fiesta Bowl The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips (a Frito-Lay product), is a United States college football game played annually since 1971. Originally, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium where it remained until 2006. , Oregon will have to be ranked in the top 12 of the final BCS ratings on Dec. 4. The Ducks (9-1) already have the required nine wins. Though he said he hadn't yet seen the BCS list as of Monday afternoon, UO coach Mike Bellotti Robert Michael Bellotti (b. December 21, 1950 in Sacramento, California) has been the head coach of the University of Oregon football team since 1995. His accomplishments at Oregon include an 11-1 season and #2 national ranking in 2001. Education M.S. acknowledged that it was `surprising' to him when told of his team's placement. `I would have thought we would have moved up one' from last week, he said. There was an opening to improve because Georgia did fall out of the top 10 after a defeat, but Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame jumped over the Ducks from 11th a week ago to ninth on Monday. The margin is two-thousandths of a point. Oregon's overall total is .6803 while Notre Dame is .6805 and No. 8 Alabama is .6893, based on a score of 1.000 being the maximum. USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. again leads the BCS rankings (at .9829) with Texas second, setting them up as the likely pairing in the Jan. 4 Rose Bowl for the national championship. After the Longhorns, the BCS lists Miami, Penn State, LSU LSU Louisiana State University LSU Large Subunit LSU La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA) LSU La Sierra University LSU Link State Update (OSPF) LSU Learning Support Unit , Virginia Tech, Ohio State and then Alabama, which suffered its first defeat last weekend, before the Irish and the Ducks round out the top 10. Notre Dame's climb of two places in the overall BCS poll was largely based on the computer average of the Irish improving from 18th the previous week to 13th this week. Obviously, the computers were very impressed with that 42nd consecutive win over Navy. In the human polls, Notre Dame is sixth in the Harris voting and seventh in the USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. voting by coaches. The Ducks are 10th in both of those polls. `It's all politics,' Long said. `I'm a political science major so I know how that goes.' Oregon did gain slightly with the computers after the losses by the two SEC teams, with an average rank of seventh this week after being eighth in the computers the previous week. Oregon's best computer ranking was fifth, with another sixth, three putting the Ducks seventh and the other 10th. The BCS throws out the highest and lowest ranking and averages the other four computers. The computer average then provides one-third of the BCS point total, with the Harris and USA Today each adding another one-third. The four BCS bowls - Rose, Fiesta, Orange and Sugar - make their pairings from the champions of six leagues - Pac-10, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, ACC See adaptive cruise control. and Big East - along with two at-large selections. Based on current standings or national rankings, the six automatic BCS berths would go to USC, Texas, Miami, Penn State, LSU and West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. . The possible at-large teams, based on Monday's poll, are Virginia Tech, Ohio State, Alabama, Notre Dame, the Ducks and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , the latter 11th in the latest BCS ranking. Bellotti joked about how he `called all my friends' to lobby for his team - who might that have been a shot at? - but turned serious and said `there's not much we can do. The most important thing to do is take care of business this week and let the chips fall where they may, and as I said, put the pressure on other people to make the right decision.' Oregon would argue that it has lost only to No. 1 USC, and beaten three teams that were ranked in the top 25 at the time of the game in Fresno State, Arizona State and California. The Irish (7-2) and No. 7 Ohio State (8-2) are the only two-loss teams ranked ahead of Oregon. Both must win out to gain a ninth victory and be eligible for a BCS game, with Notre Dame finishing its season against Syracuse (1-8) on Saturday and Stanford (5-4) on Nov. 26 and the Buckeyes closing at Michigan on Saturday. Both teams are widely viewed as more likely at-large selections than Oregon by the Fiesta Bowl, with neither the Orange nor Sugar at all interested in the Ducks. Oregon would also be helped if Alabama lost to Auburn or Virginia Tech fell to Virginia on Saturday, but who can keep track of all that when there's game planning for the Beavers to be done? `I don't even know what our ranking is right now,' UO center Enoka Lucas Enoka Lucas (born April 29, 1984 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American football guard and center who is currently a free agent. He was originally signed by the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played collegiately at Oregon. said. `I'm not worried about any of that until Dec. 4. The big thing on my mind is Oregon State. `I don't even care what bowl game we go to, as long as we go to one.' B C S BCS RANKINGS Harris USA Today Computer BCS Rk Pts Pct Rk Pts Pct Rk Pct Avg Pv 1. Southern Cal ... 1 2806 .9933 1 1543 .9955 2 .960 .9829 1 2. Texas ... 2 2731 .9667 2 1495 .9645 1 1.000 .9771 2 3. Miami (Fla.) ... 3 2585 .9150 3 1421 .9168 5 .840 .8906 4 4. Penn State ... 5 2342 .8290 5 1251 .8071 3 .920 .8520 5 5. LSU ... 4 2452 .8680 4 1363 .8794 8 .720 .8224 7 6. Virginia Tech ... 7 2076 .7349 6 1168 .7535 4 .880 .7895 6 7. Ohio St. ... 9 2004 .7094 9 1068 .6890 6 .790 .7295 8 8. Alabama ... 8 2051 .7260 8 1088 .7019 9 .640 .6893 3 9. Notre Dame ... 6 2175 .7699 7 1165 .7516 13 .520 .6805 11 10. OREGON ... 10 1766 .6251 10 1001 .6458 7 .770 .6803 10 11. UCLA ... 12 1549 .5483 11 890 .5742 12 .530 .5508 15 12. West Virginia ... 14 1392 .4927 13 842 .5432 10 .610 .5487 14 13. Auburn ... 11 1695 .6000 12 872 .5626 t17 .300 .4875 20 14. TCU (Transmission Control Unit) A communications control unit controlled by the computer that does not execute internally stored programs. Contrast with front end processor, which executes its own instructions. ... 15 1250 .4425 15 672 .4335 14 .480 .4520 17 15. Michigan ... 17 968 .3427 17 495 .3194 11 .550 .4040 21 16. Georgia ... 13 1431 .5065 14 763 .4923 20 .210 .4029 9 17. Fresno State ... 16 988 .3497 16 557 .3594 NR .080 .2630 22 18. Louisville ... 18 778 .2754 18 445 .2871 24 .120 .2275 25 19. Texas Tech ... 19 754 .2669 19 382 .2465 21 .150 .2211 12 20. Wisconsin ... 24 288 .1019 24 147 .0948 16 .420 .2056 16 21. Minnesota ... 25 214 .0758 27 87 .0561 15 .460 .1973 24 22. Florida ... 20 581 .2057 20 322 .2077 NR .080 .1645 13 23. South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. ... 22 449 .1589 21 252 .1626 25 .090 .1372 NR 24. Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing ... 23 301 .1065 23 216 .1394 t22 .140 .1286 NR 25. Oklahoma ... 28 111 .0393 28 50 .0323 19 .290 .1205 NR EXPLANATION KEY Team percentages are derived by dividing a team's actual voting points by a maximum 2825 possible points in the Harris Interactive Harris Interactive (NASDAQ: HPOL) is an American market research company that specializes in public opinion research using both telephone and surveys on online panels. The company is the product of a 1996 merger between the Gordon S. Black Company and Louis Harris & Associates. Poll and 1525 possible points in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Six computer rankings calculated in inverse points (Geom.) two points lying on a line drawn from the center of a fixed circle or sphere, and so related that the product of their distances from the center of the circle or sphere is equal to the square of the radius. See also: Inverse order (25 for No. 1, 24 for No. 2, etc.) are used to determine the overall computer component. The highest and lowest ranking for each team is dropped, and the remaining four are added and divided by 100 (the maximum possible points) to produce a Computer Rankings Percentage. The six computer ranking providers are Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey Kenneth Massey is an American sports statistician well-known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports. His ratings have been a part of the Bowl Championship Series since its inception. , Jeff Sagarin, and Peter Wolfe. Each computer ranking accounts for schedule strength in its formula. The BCS Average is calculated by averaging the percent totals of the Harris Interactive, USA Today Coaches and Computer polls. |
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