They say the highest ranking team in the BCS wins, unless two teams are within 5 spots of each other in the BCS, then the winner of the head to head between the two goes. I imagine the Big XII will change their tie-breaker to be like all of the other major conferences. No one really thought Tech should go to the championship game. In the end it came down to UT-OU. OU got the benefit of playing Tech at home, and they took full advantage.

Even though I was never on the Tech bandwagon I think the real problem with a lot of the arguments screaming 45-35 is that what good reason do you have to suggest that Tech did not also tie for the division title? BCS standings are the only reason everyone is talking only UT and OU and what exactly does that have to do with the Big 12 conference race anyway. Sure if it were a 2 way tie then Texas goes because they beat OU, but it is not a 2 way tie, it is a 3 way tie, and it is dumb that Tech is left completely out of the discussion due to ranking alone. Between all 3 of them their record against each other is all 1-1. 45-35 counts the same as 39-33 or 65-21 or whatever. Conference championships seemed to be the one thing left untainted by the BCS and now even those are. I think any of the teams has a right to complain honestly but I am not too sad that UT didn’t get in because they always complain the most, Mack Brown was plastered all over ESPN all weekend, even called in during the OU game, and Musberger was in full Bevo mode openly campaiging for UT during the game. I expect a lot more of that this week with more UT campaigning on ESPN for them to get into the BCS championship game.