EBS Tournament - 2002

Season recap

Miami (FL) returned a dominant team who ended the regular season on a 34 game winning streak. The lone other undefeated team was Ohio State, who found success thanks in part to freshman RB Maurice Clarett. The Buckeyes beat Washington State (with defensive standouts DB Marcus Trufant and DT Rien Long) in September and shared the Big Ten title with QB Brad Banks's Iowa Hawkeyes (the teams did not meet during the regular season). Georgia won the SEC, suffering its only loss to rival Florida. Heisman winner Carson Palmer led S. California to a Pac-10 championship in Pete Carroll's second year as head coach.

EBS Tournament

GMAC, Dec 21

Alamo, Dec 20

Gator, Dec 21

Las Vegas, Dec 21

Orange
Jan 1

Fiesta
Jan 2

Capital One
Jan 1

Cotton
Jan 1

Sugar
Jan 8

Rose
Jan 9

National Title Game
Jan 15

Miami (FL)

Ohio St.

Georgia

Washington St.

Iowa

S. California

Oklahoma

Kansas St.

Texas

Notre Dame

Florida St.

Boise St.

First in:

6 BCS Champs	Conf.
Miami (FL)	Big East
Ohio St.	Big Ten
Georgia	SEC
Washington St.	Pac-10
Oklahoma	Big 12
Florida St.	ACC

Highest non-BCS Champ	Conf.
Boise St.	WAC

Non-BCS Champs or Indep. in Top 12	Conf.
Notre Dame	Indep.

Fill Remaining:

At-large Teams	Conf.
Iowa	Big Ten
S. California	Pac-10
Kansas St.	Big 12
Texas	Big 12

End of regular season rankings

Team	Seed	Bid	Conf	BCS Rank	BCS Avg	AP Percent	Coaches Percent	CPU Percent	AP Pts	CPU Pts	AH	RB	CM	KM	JS	PW
Miami (FL)	1	C	*Big East	1	.997	1	1	.990	1850	1525	24	25	25	25	25	24
Ohio St.	2	C	*Big Ten	2	.963	.958	.959	.970	1773	1463	25	24	24	24	24	25
Georgia	3	C	*SEC	3	.892	.879	.877	.920	1627	1337	23	23	23	22	23	23
Iowa	5	L	Big Ten	4	.884	.907	.906	.840	1678	1381	22	21	21	18	21	21
S. California	6	L	Pac-10	5	.851	.843	.841	.870	1559	1283	21	20	22	23	22	22
Washington St.	4	C	*Pac-10	6	.753	.750	.748	.760	1388	1141	18	17	18	21	20	20
Oklahoma	7	C	*Big 12	7	.738	.741	.713	.760	1371	1088	19	22	19	19	18	19
Kansas St.	8	L	Big 12	8	.704	.755	.778	.580	1397	1187	11	15	13	16	14	16
Texas	9	L	Big 12	9	.685	.701	.704	.650	1297	1074	16	19	17	15	17	15
Notre Dame	10	A	Independent	10	.640	.597	.553	.770	1104	844	20	18	20	20	19	18
Michigan			Big Ten	11	.612	.574	.601	.660	1061	917	17	10	16	17	16	17
Penn St.			Big Ten	12	.557	.598	.604	.470	1107	921	14	12	12	11	10	12
Colorado			Big 12	13	.423	.410	.420	.440	758	641	12	3	10	12	12	10
Florida St.	11	C	*ACC	14	.415	.357	.369	.520	661	562	13	2	14	13	13	13
West Virginia			Big East	15	.373	.382	.427	.310	706	651	7	11	9	7	7	8
NC State			ACC	16	.224	.308	.364	0	570	555
Boise St.	12	M	*WAC	17	.220	.273	.386	0	505	588
Maryland			ACC	18	.183	.241	.308	0	446	470
Alabama (prob.)			SEC	19	.177	.532	0	0	984	0
Virginia Tech			Big East	20	.174	.221	.300	0	409	457
Auburn			SEC	21	.145	.261	.172	0	483	263
Florida			SEC	22	.135	.167	.239	0	309	364
Colorado St.			*MWC	23	.124	.150	.221	0	277	337
Pittsburgh			Big East	24	.091	.138	.134	0	255	204
Arkansas			SEC	25	.047	.086	.054	0	160	82

* - 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.
- 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 15.
- Data from:
- 2002 Final Bowl Championship Series Standings (2002, December 8). Retrieved 11 November 2006, from Fox Sports - BCSFootball - BCS Standings Archive. Web site: http://msn.foxsports.com/id/7894695_37_1.pdf
- USA Today/ESPN Poll. (2002, December 9). New York Times, p. D10.

Computer rankings
AH - Anderson & Hester | RB - Richard Billingsley | CM - Colley Matrix
KM - Kenneth Massey | JS - Jeff Sagarin | PW - Dr. Peter Wolfe