3 Boise State did everything it could to back up its ranking. The preseason top two teams (Alabama and Ohio State) ended up first and second in S&P+ despite a handful of losses, and preseason No. I mean, it never is when Auburn is involved, but beyond that, a lot of the teams we assumed would be good this year, simply weren’t. That maybe makes this year feel somewhat orderly. If either Auburn or Oregon would have slipped, unbeaten TCU, winner of 25 consecutive regular season games, would have likely gotten a BCS title game bid despite its mid-major status. Oregon, meanwhile, whomped Stanford and survived a late-year Stuff Happens game at Cal.
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Auburn pulled off a series of magic acts that only Auburn could pull off - S&P+ sees this Auburn team as basically an 11-win team and ranked them sixth in the updated rankings, only the Tigers won SEVEN games by a touchdown or less and won the national title. Margin for error was nil because the teams that ended up emerging refused to lose.
LSU lost only at Auburn, and by only a touchdown, but couldn’t top fifth in the BCS rankings.Wisconsin slipped up only once as well, hit a late-year offensive hot streak the likes of which we’ve rarely seen, and still fell short.Ohio State slipped up once, at a good Wisconsin, and failed to make the BCS title game.half of FBS) these days? That line is usually delivered with tons of caveats, but in 2010, it was true. You know how we always say, “Every game matters,” in college football, even though some teams get mulligans for losses (while others don’t), and even though no game matters for mid-majors (i.e.
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