EBS Tournament - 2000
Season recap
In Bob Stoops's second season, the Oklahoma Sooners were the undefeated Big 12 champions. QB Josh Heupel led a
strong team whose victories included beating Texas, then-#2 Kansas St, and then-#1 Nebraska in consecutive
games.
Seven teams finished with one loss on the season, and the claim for the country's #2 team was of serious debate.
Florida St finished #2 (under the ranking system of the time) despite losing to #3 Miami (FL).
Miami's lone loss was to Washington, who handed Oregon St its only defeat. Virginia Tech was runner-up
in the Big East because it lost once - to Miami. TCU and Toledo were the other 1-loss teams.
EBS Tournament
National Title Game
Jan 15
First in:
| 6 BCS Champs | Conf. |
|---|
| Oklahoma | Big 12 |
| Miami (FL) | Big East |
| Florida St. | ACC |
| Washington | Pac-10 |
| Florida | SEC |
| Purde | Big Ten |
|
Next:
Highest non-BCS
Champ | Conf. |
|---|
| TCU | WAC |
|
Next:
Non-BCS Champs or
Indep. in Top 12 | Conf. |
|---|
| Notre Dame | Indep. |
|
Fill Remaining:
| At-large Teams | Conf. |
|---|
| Viginia Tech | Big East |
| Oregon St. | Pac-10 |
| Nebraska | Big 12 |
| Kansas St. | Big 12 |
|
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End of regular season rankings
| Oklahoma | 1 | C | *Big 12 | 1 | .989 | .996 | .997 | .973 | 1768 | 1471 | 25 | 25 | | 24 | 23 | |
| Miami (FL) | 2 | C | *Big East | 2 | .943 | .954 | .949 | .927 | 1693 | 1400 | 23 | 23 | | 23 | 24 | |
| Florida St. | 3 | C | *ACC | 3 | .939 | .924 | .926 | .967 | 1640 | 1366 | 22 | 24 | | 25 | 25 | |
| Washington | 4 | C | *Pac-10 | 4 | .847 | .885 | .871 | .787 | 1571 | 1284 | 24 | 16 | | 21 | 18 | |
| Virginia Tech | 5 | L | Big East | 5 | .813 | .786 | .814 | .840 | 1396 | 1200 | 20 | 21 | | 22 | 21 | |
| Oregon St. | 6 | L | Pac-10 | 6 | .802 | .830 | .808 | .767 | 1473 | 1192 | 21 | 19 | | 18 | 19 | |
| Florida | 7 | C | *SEC | 7 | .771 | .760 | .759 | .793 | 1349 | 1119 | 19 | 22 | | 19 | 20 | |
| Nebraska | 8 | L | Big 12 | 8 | .709 | .654 | .681 | .793 | 1160 | 1005 | 17 | 20 | | 20 | 22 | |
| Kansas St. | 9 | L | Big 12 | 9 | .629 | .611 | .636 | .640 | 1084 | 938 | 14 | 18 | | 15 | 17 | |
| Oregon | | | Pac-10 | 10 | .610 | .680 | .602 | .547 | 1207 | 888 | 18 | 14 | | 12 | 12 | |
| Texas | | | Big 12 | 11 | .576 | .530 | .557 | .640 | 941 | 822 | 16 | 15 | | 17 | 16 | |
| Notre Dame | 10 | A | Independent | 12 | .553 | .612 | .606 | .440 | 1086 | 894 | 11 | 12 | | 11 | 10 | |
| Georgia Tech | | | ACC | 13 | .482 | .452 | .366 | .627 | 803 | 540 | 15 | 17 | | 16 | 15 | |
| TCU | 11 | M | *WAC | 14 | .478 | .488 | .426 | .520 | 867 | 628 | 13 | 10 | | 14 | 14 | |
| Clemson | | | ACC | 15 | .455 | .437 | .480 | .447 | 776 | 708 | 6 | 13 | | 13 | 11 | |
| Michigan | | | Big Ten | 16 | .427 | .425 | .428 | .427 | 754 | 632 | 9 | 11 | | 10 | 13 | |
| Purdue | 12 | C | *Big Ten | 17 | .307 | .456 | .465 | 0 | 810 | 686 | | | | | | |
| Northwestern | | | Big Ten | 18 | .197 | .312 | .279 | 0 | 553 | 411 | | | | | | |
| Ohio St. | | | Big Ten | 19 | .187 | .271 | .289 | 0 | 481 | 427 | | | | | | |
| Auburn | | | SEC | 20 | .162 | .254 | .234 | 0 | 450 | 345 | | | | | | |
| Tennessee | | | SEC | 21 | .137 | .206 | .206 | 0 | 366 | 304 | | | | | | |
| Colorado St. | | | *MWC | 22 | .098 | .112 | .181 | 0 | 198 | 267 | | | | | | |
| Louisville | | | *C-USA | 23 | .080 | .131 | .108 | 0 | 232 | 159 | | | | | | |
| Georgia | | | SEC | 24 | .041 | .062 | .061 | 0 | 110 | 90 | | | | | | |
| Toledo | | | MAC | 25 | .033 | .047 | .052 | 0 | 84 | 76 | | | | | | |
* - conference champion
Notes:
- Rankings determined using the current (enacted 2005) BCS formula with the following exceptions:
- The AP Poll was substituted for the Harris Poll.
- Under BCS rules at the time, computer rankings were allowed to consider margin-of-victory in their calculations. They are included as is.
- With data available from only four computer rankings, the highest and lowest ranking for each team are given half weight rather than
being completely ignored.
- Teams for which computer rankings were unavailable were given a computer average of zero and are shown only to attempt to qualify
the ranking of automatic qualifiers outside the top 16.
- Data from:
- Final 2000 Bowl Championship Series Standings (2000, December 3). Retrieved 11 November 2006, from Fox Sports - BCSFootball -
BCS Standings Archive. Web site: http://msn.foxsports.com/id/7894691_37_1.pdf
- USA Today/ESPN Poll. (2000, December 4). New York Times, p. D3.
Computer rankings
AH - Anderson & Hester | RB - Richard Billingsley | CM - Colley Matrix
KM - Kenneth Massey | JS - Jeff Sagarin | PW - Dr. Peter Wolfe
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