re: Can Alabama or LSU bump Oklahoma from the number one spot without...

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not when they were put at #1 with zero empirical evidence they deserve to be there. If LSU rips WV a new one they deserve to be #1. If LSU wins close and Bama skull fricks Arky then maybe Bama will deserve it.

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Not only is their no actual evidence that OU is the number one team, there isn't necessarily even a consensus opinion that they are the best team. Rankings at the beginning of a season reflect several things such as ease of schedule and probability of avoiding losses. If the voters had voted the team they thought was "best" this year Alabama would have started the season ranked number one ahead of OU and Arkansas would have started the season ranked ahead of A&M and South carolina. The really screwed up thing is these flawed rankings are still present at the end of the season when a team ranked number one at the beginning of the season is still number one because their schedule was easy (the reason they were ranked number one to begin with).