[stupac2]

No chance. It's possible to see how a one-loss Missouri or Auburn could jump a 1-loss Bama, though I highly doubt either of those teams will finish the season with one loss. It's impossible for me to see Stanford jumping ahead of a one-loss SEC team, though.

In that scenario, I'd expect the conventional wisdom on ESPN to become: "Tie goes to the conference that's won seven straight national titles."

The talking heads on ESPN have precisely 0 influence on this outcome. The coaches sure don't listen to them, neither do the computers. The Harris poll? Maybe.

If Alabama loses they'll be behind us. The computers will put us ahead of them and enough voters will drop them behind us that we'll move up. The problem is that we need Baylor and OSU to lose, oh and also we need to win our next 4 games. That combination of events just isn't very likely.

[stupac2]

No chance. It's possible to see how a one-loss Missouri or Auburn could jump a 1-loss Bama, though I highly doubt either of those teams will finish the season with one loss. It's impossible for me to see Stanford jumping ahead of a one-loss SEC team, though.

In that scenario, I'd expect the conventional wisdom on ESPN to become: "Tie goes to the conference that's won seven straight national titles."

The talking heads on ESPN have precisely 0 influence on this outcome. The coaches sure don't listen to them, neither do the computers. The Harris poll? Maybe.

If Alabama loses they'll be behind us. The computers will put us ahead of them and enough voters will drop them behind us that we'll move up. The problem is that we need Baylor and OSU to lose, oh and also we need to win our next 4 games. That combination of events just isn't very likely.