Oct. 24, 2000
The BCS, chaired this season by ACC commissioner John Swofford, was created two years ago to come up with a national title game without instituting a playoff. After the top two teams are decided, the remaining BCS games -- the Rose, Sugar and Fiesta bowls -- select from the remaining pool of qualified teams.
Champions of six conferences -- the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and SEC -- qualify for a BCS game, and two at-large teams are selected to fill out the field.
In each of the first two seasons of the BCS standings, the teams that played for the title also were ranked 1-2 in the polls. Tennessee beat Florida State in the 1999 Fiesta Bowl for the '98 title, and Florida State beat Virginia Tech in the 2000 Sugar Bowl for the '99 championship.
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BCS RANKINGS
(as of 10/23/00)
|
 |
| Rank |
Team |
Poll
Avg. |
Computer
Avg. |
Schedule
Rank |
Losses |
TOTAL |
| 1. |
Nebraska |
1.0 |
1.57 |
1.04 |
0 |
3.61 |
| 2. |
Oklahoma |
3.0 |
1.71 |
0.72 |
0 |
5.43 |
| 3. |
Virginia Tech |
2.0 |
4.14 |
0.52 |
0 |
6.66 |
| 4. |
Miami (Fla.) |
4.5 |
4.14 |
0.12 |
1 |
9.76 |
| 5. |
Florida State |
6.0 |
4.14 |
1.00 |
1 |
12.14 |
| 6. |
Florida |
7.5 |
6.86 |
0.84 |
1 |
16.20 |
| 7. |
Clemson |
4.5 |
7.86 |
3.88 |
0 |
16.24 |
| 8. |
Oregon |
8.5 |
8.00 |
0.60 |
1 |
18.10 |
| 9. |
Washington |
9.0 |
9.57 |
0.32 |
1 |
19.89 |
| 10. |
Kansas State |
9.0 |
8.71 |
3.04 |
1 |
21.75 |
| 11. |
Ohio State |
12.5 |
10.14 |
0.92 |
1 |
24.56 |
| 12. |
Georgia |
12.5 |
14.00 |
1.96 |
1 |
29.46 |
| 13. |
TCU |
11.0 |
16.29 |
4.36 |
0 |
31.65 |
| 14. |
Southern Miss |
14.0 |
15.71 |
3.16 |
1 |
33.87 |
| 15. |
Purdue |
16.0 |
15.57 |
1.12 |
2 |
34.69 |
| EXPLANATION |
| Poll Average: Average of USA Today/ESPN Coaches and AP Media Polls. Others
receiving votes calculated in order received. |
| Computer Average: Average of Richard Billingsley, Dunkel Index, Kenneth
Massey, New York Times, David Rothman, Jeff Sagarin's USA Today,
Matthews/Scripps-Howard, and the Anderson & Hester/Seattle Times rankings.
The computer component will be determined by averaging the seven highest
computer rankings. The lowest computer ranking will be disregarded. |
| Schedule Rank: Rank of schedule strength compared to other Division I-A
teams of actual games played divided by 25. This component is calculated by
determining the cumulative won/loss records of the team's opponent (66 2/3
percent) and the cumulative won/loss records of the team's opponents'
opponents (33 1/3 percent). |
| Losses: One point for each loss during the season. |
| Notes: BCS Standings each week will list the top 15 teams. |
| For more: Visit www.footballfoundation.com, the official website of the National Football Foundation. |
