BCS Update from the Advertiser

About how UH shouldn't drop any lower in the BCS after dropping to 16th this week, Jerry Palm (who runs CollegeBCS.com) said:
"All things being equal and they don't lose again, (the Warriors) should go up from now on." (HA)

HA Note: "If there was a week UH was vulnerable to get passed by a herd of BCS heavies and could do little about it, this was it. With UH (8-0) having an open date, dead in the water with its sagging strength of schedule numbers, the fear was that a handful of marquee schools might leap-frog the Warriors.

Six of the nine teams immediately behind UH won, but just two, Texas (8-2) and Florida (6-3), hopped over them. Significantly, Southern California (7-2) and Auburn (7-3) remained behind, the Tigers getting leapfrogged by three teams for the schedule hit they took for playing I-AA homecoming patsy Tennessee Tech. Had Auburn slipped past UH on that note, the Warriors' prospects would have seriously dimmed."


About the difference between UH's voter and computer rankings, Palm said that in the 10 years of the BCS:
"There has never been a team (ranked) so disparately between what the voters think of them and what the computers think of them." (HA)

HA Note: "Only one of the six computer providers (Peter Wolfe) even has UH in the top 25 underlining how much more forgiving the voters are than computers. UH's schedule is ranked worst among the 119 I-A teams and 160th overall. To date the highest-ranked UH foe in the Sagarin ratings, one of the BCS computer providers, is No. 106 Louisiana Tech. Now comes the "meat" of the schedule, Fresno State (73), Nevada (105), Boise State (28) and Washington (53), who all rank better."


HA Note: "The Fiesta and Sugar Bowls said they plan to send representatives to the Warriors' Nov. 16 game at Nevada and the Orange Bowl is scheduled to send a scout to the Nov. 23 game with Boise State, Western Athletic Conference commissioner Karl Benson said yesterday."

About how the winner of the UH-BSU game could get to a BCS game, Karl Benson said:
"We could be looking at a No. 15 or 16 Boise State playing a No. 10, 11 or 12 Hawai'i at that point. The fact that we already have two teams in the top 20 of the BCS makes a very strong statement about WAC football." (HA)

HA Note: "A visit by an Orange Bowl representative would be the longest trip taken by the Miami-based game. The Fiesta Bowl had a representative at the Warriors' Oct. 12 game at San Jose State, and the Sugar Bowl had a staffer at the Sept. 8 game at Louisiana Tech. Prior to this season none of the bowls had sent representatives to UH games."