post-season BCS Analysis

#2 Alabama won the BCS title game  against #1 LSU in the first BCS bowl featuring two teams from the same conference.  An interesting result is that the SEC has a six-game winning streak in the BCS NCG, while it just started a losing streak.  The lower-ranked team has now won 7 of 13 title games. LSU is now the only team to be shut out in any BCS bowl. Nick Saban is the only coach to lead 3 teams to BCS titles. With LSU losing a BCS bowl for the first time, Orange Bowl champion West Virginia now has the most victories without a loss.   West Virginia's high-scoring win over Clemson set several other BCS records. #3 Oklahoma State, in its first BCS bowl appearance,  defeated #4 Stanford in the Fiesta Bowl. In the Sugar Bowl, #13 Michigan beat  #11 Virginia Tech . #5 Oregon was victorious over #10 Wisconsin  in the Rose Bowl. The lower-ranked team won 3 of the 5 BCS bowls. #7 Boise State, #8 Kansas State, #14 Oklahoma, and #12 Baylor were eligible for at-large BCS bowl bids, but were not invited.  Kansas State was the only team of the four that did not win its bowl game. Because two SEC teams played in the BCS NCG, #6 Arkansas and #9 South Carolina were not eligible.  Both teams ended the season with a bowl win. Penn State was the only team in the final BCS rankings that did not place in the post-season pseudo-BCS rankings - its place was taken by Florida State. In the post-season rankings, Oklahoma was ranked much higher by the BCS computers than by the poll voters, while the opposite was especially true for Oregon. It is hardly a surprise that Billingsley had several computer rankings that were out of the mainstream, including Stanford at #5, Baylor at #14, and Texas at #31.