Tech and Big 12 provide BCS a bit of satisfaction

[OKNancy]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/sullivan/20041231-9999-1s31sulliv1.html

Righteous indignation took a wrong turn last night.

It ran facemask-first into a reality just as unsatisfying as the Bowl Championship Series itself. In the course of one illuminating evening, the victimization of Cal's Golden Bears ended and their vilification began.

Texas Tech's Red Raiders, a 30-point loser to Big 12 bully Ty Texas, defended their conference's impugned honor in the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl with a 45-31 stomping of the best college football team in, well, Berkeley.

It was convincing. It was complete. It was lopsided. It was, frankly, borderline laughable. It was everything Texas coach Mack Brown could have dreamed and almost everything BCS antagonists dreaded.

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more at the link.

[OKNancy]

1. ABC article about the game

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=373936


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The day the BCS pairings were released, Cal quarterback Aaron Rodgers said Brown "was a little classless" for begging for poll votes to help his Longhorns, and that the system was "faulty." Tedford said votes in the coaches' poll should be made public.

The Longhorns, by the way, beat Texas Tech 51-21 at Lubbock on Oct. 23.

Texas Tech fans mocked Cal with chants of "Overrated!" in the closing minutes.

The Golden Bears (10-2), who were 11 1/2-point favorites, simply had no answer against the Red Raiders (8-4) and their efficient spread offense, which uses four wide receivers most of the time.

Tech senior Sonny Cumbie threw for a career-high 520 yards and three touchdowns, including a 60-yarder to Joel Filani. Safety Vincent Meeks set up a score with a 48-yard interception return.

Cumbie was 39-of-60 and broke the Holiday Bowl attempts record of 59 set by BYU's Ty Detmer in 1989. He was short of Detmer's Holiday Bowl record of 576 yards, also set in 1989.

[ChicanoPwr]

5. It is up to OU

Texas did it's job. GO SOONERS.

[kwyjibo]

2. HA!

that is all.

[goodbody]

3. these are same type articles written about Oklahoma

last year, and they even had a Heisman winner.

on edit: Sooner fans just wrote it off as a couple of bad games -- everyone has them. So it looks like Cal just had a bad game.

[OKNancy]

4. Last year

The Colorado game was a bad game...the LSU game was...we got whupped by a better team. No excuses.