EBS Tournament - 2003

Season recap

Three BCS schools finished the regular season with one loss. LSU lost to Florida, S. California was bested by California in three overtimes, and Oklahoma, who had been #1 since the preseason, dropped its first game in the Big 12 championship to Kansas State. Ben Roethlisberger quarterbacked Miami (OH), who was one of three non-BCS schools to finish with one loss.

Michigan capitalized on the running of Heisman finalist Chris Perry, while Florida St reached #3 in the polls before losing to Clemson. Texas appeared to be the be the second best team in the Big 12, but Kansas State's upset elevated the Wildcats to Big 12 champions, pushing Oklahoma and Texas down a few rungs.

EBS Tournament

Music City, Dec 20

Sun, Dec 20

Meineke Car Care, Dec 23

Insight, Dec 20

Sugar
Jan 2

Cotton
Jan 1

Rose
Jan 1

Capiral One
Jan 1

Orange
Jan 9

Fiesta
Jan 8

National Title Game
Jan 15

LSU

S. California

Michigan

Florida St.

Oklahoma

Texas

Ohio St.

Tennessee

Kansas St.

Miami (FL)

Georgia

Miami (OH)

Note: Miami's (FL) & Kansas State's first-round matchups were switched. See "EBS Seedings and Matchups" for details.

First in:

6 BCS Champs	Conf.
LSU	SEC
S. California	Pac-10
Michigan	Big Ten
Florida St.	ACC
Miami (FL)	Big East
Kansas St.	Big 12

Highest non-BCS Champ	Conf.
Miami (OH)	MAC

Non-BCS Champs or Indep. in Top 12	Conf.
No addl automatic qualifiers

Fill Remaining:

At-large Teams	Conf.
Oklahoma	Big 12
Texas	Big 12
Ohio St.	Big Ten
Tennessee	SEC
Georgia	SEC

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
LSU	1	C	*SEC	1	.965	.972	.963	.960	1580	1516	24	24	24	25	24	24
S. California	2	C	*Pac-10	2	.960	.982	.979	.920	1595	1542	23	23	23	23	22	23
Oklahoma	5	L	Big 12	3	.946	.918	.920	1	1491	1449	25	25	25	24	25	25
Michigan	3	C	*Big Ten	4	.866	.884	.884	.830	1437	1393	19	22	20	21	21	21
Texas	6	L	Big 12	5	.780	.814	.808	.720	1322	1272	21	17	18	19	18	16
Ohio St.	7	L	Big Ten	6	.768	.743	.742	.820	1208	1168	20	20	22	22	20	19
Florida St.	4	C	*ACC	7	.719	.694	.714	.750	1128	1124	18	18	21	18	19	20
Tennessee	8	L	SEC	8	.704	.756	.727	.630	1228	1145	16	19	16	15	16	15
Miami (FL)	9	C	*Big East	9	.675	.662	.663	.700	1075	1044	17	21	19	17	15	17
Kansas St.	10	C	*Big 12	10	.636	.708	.660	.540	1151	1039	10	14	14	14	13	13
Georgia	11	L	SEC	11	.630	.626	.634	.630	1018	999	14	15	15	16	17	18
Miami (OH)	12	M	*MAC	12	.566	.465	.422	.810	756	664	22	16	17	20	23	22
Iowa			Big Ten	13	.502	.474	.533	.500	771	839	12	10	11	13	14	14
Purdue			Big Ten	14	.469	.522	.484	.400	849	762	11	9	9	12	11	9
Washington St.			Pac-10	15	.359	.393	.444	.240	638	699	8	7	7	4	5	5
Florida			SEC	16	.350	.381	.349	.320	619	550	2	12	3	11	10	8
Boise St.			*WAC	17	.342	.332	.354	.340	540	557	5	13	10	5	9	10
TCU			C-USA	18	.301	.241	.272	.390	392	429	15	11	13	2	4	11
Mississippi			SEC	19	.285	.392	.333	.130	637	524	3	6	2	6	2	2
Nebraska			Big 12	20	.228	.171	.214	.300	278	337	9	0	8	8	8	6
Oklahoma St.			Big 12	21	.190	.184	.167	.220	299	263	7	1	5	10	6	4
Utah			*MWC	22	.155	.065	.051	.350	106	80	13	5	12	9	7	7
Minnesota			Big Ten	23	.108	.082	.241	0	134	379	0	2	0	0	0	0
Maryland			ACC	24	.107	.136	.085	.100	221	134	1	0	6	3	3	3
Bowling Green			MAC	25	.103	.058	.020	.230	95	32	0	0	4	7	12	12

* - 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.
- Data from: 2003 Final Bowl Championship Series Standings (2003, December 7). Retrieved 11 November 2006, from Fox Sports - BCSFootball - BCS Standings Archive. Web site: http://msn.foxsports.com/id/7894697_37_1.pdf
Computer rankings
AH - Anderson & Hester | RB - Richard Billingsley | CM - Colley Matrix
KM - Kenneth Massey | JS - Jeff Sagarin | PW - Dr. Peter Wolfe