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That was an absolute travesty. The BCS 'Human Poll' portion of the voting controlled by the Coaches was undeniably influenced by the lobbying for the 3rd place SEC team to get in over a 12-1 Big 12 Conference champion who destroyed Oklahoma by 6 touchdowns in the Conference championship game. Some had this team (OSU) as #2 going into that game.

In fact the publicly available record of the BSC Coaches 'Human' poll actually states clearly and lists in black and white which coaches moved 3rd place SEC ala. into the BCSNCG over 12-1 Oklahoma State, who they actually bizarrely and mysteriously and magically DROPPED ''''BELOW''' ala in the poll.

Even though Oklahoma State was the #2 team according to some of the coaches, enough of the rest of the coaches changed their vote and moved 3rd place SEC ala. OVER 12-1 #2 Big 12 Champion Oklahoma State.

Truly and comically (yet monumentally unfairly) astonishing.

Is it really though? Did an Okie State team that had just lost to a 6-7 Iowa State squad really deserve the nod over a Bama team that had a one very close loss to the #1 team in the country?

And OSU beat Oklahoma in their regular season bedlam rivalry. There was no Big 12 title game that year. Oklahoma was decent but not great that year, having already lost twice to Tech and Baylor.