EBS Tournament - 2005

Season recap

Pre-season #1 S. California and #2 Texas finished in those positions during their undefeated regular seasons. Both teams were filled with star players, such as S. California's Matt Leinart & Reggie Bush and Texas's Vince Young. During the season, S. California won a last-second victory at Notre Dame and beat Pac-10 runner-up Oregon; Texas topped Ohio St. in an early season contest and recorded the largest-ever margin of victory in a Big 12 championship game (a 70-3 win over Colorado).

Penn St., with QB Michael Robinson and LB Paul Posluszny, finished their season with only one loss (to Ohio St.) Florida St., after beating Miami 10-7 in the opening week of the season, held off Virginia Tech in the ACC title game.

EBS Tournament

Gator, Dec 22

Alamo, Dec 20

GMAC, Dec 21

Las Vegas, Dec 22

Rose
Jan 2

Sugar
Jan 3

Cotton
Jan 2

Capital One
Jan 2

Fiesta
Jan 9

Orange
Jan 10

National Title Game
Jan 16

S. California

Texas

Penn St.

Notre Dame

Ohio St.

Oregon

Georgia

Miami (FL)

Auburn

West Virginia

TCU

Florida St.

First in:

6 BCS Champs	Conf.
S. California	Pac-10
Texas	Big 12
Penn St.	Big Ten
Georgia	SEC
West Virginia	Big East
Florida St.	ACC

Highest non-BCS Champ	Conf.
TCU	MWC

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

Fill Remaining:

At-large Teams	Conf.
Ohio St.	Big Ten
Oregon	Pac-10
Miami (FL)	ACC
Auburn	SEC

End of regular season rankings

Team	Seed	Bid	Conf	BCS Rank	BCS Avg	Harris Percent	Coaches Percent	CPU Percent	Harris Pts	CPU Pts	AH	RB	CM	KM	JS	PW
S. California	1	C	*Pac-10	1	.987	.995	.995	.970	2811	1543	25	25	24	24	24	24
Texas	2	C	*Big 12	2	.973	.965	.965	.990	2726	1495	24	24	25	25	25	25
Penn St.	3	C	*Big Ten	3	.919	.918	.919	.920	2592	1424	23	23	23	23	23	23
Ohio St.	5	L	Big Ten	4	.856	.849	.839	.880	2398	1300	22	17	22	22	22	22
Oregon	6	L	Pac-10	5	.799	.781	.796	.820	2205	1234	21	15	21	19	21	21
Notre Dame	4	A	Independent	6	.733	.812	.786	.600	2295	1219	17	12	16	12	18	15
Georgia	7	C	*SEC	7	.718	.727	.708	.720	2053	1097	20	22	18	16	14	18
Miami (FL)	8	L	ACC	8	.704	.687	.694	.730	1942	1075	18	19	17	20	19	17
Auburn	9	L	SEC	9	.675	.738	.736	.550	2085	1141	12	21	14	15	11	14
Virginia Tech			ACC	10	.672	.608	.616	.790	1719	955	19	16	20	21	20	20
West Virginia	10	C	*Big East	11	.640	.592	.619	.710	1673	959	14	18	19	18	16	19
LSU			SEC	12	.629	.641	.646	.600	1812	1002	16	20	15	11	13	16
Alabama			SEC	13	.454	.514	.508	.340	1451	787	8	13	10	7	6	9
TCU	11	M	*MWC	14	.445	.470	.474	.390	1328	734	13	14	13	0	1	12
Texas Tech			Big 12	15	.429	.406	.410	.470	1147	636	10	9	12	14	12	13
UCLA			Pac-10	16	.369	.355	.343	.410	1004	531	15	11	11	2	8	11
Florida			SEC	17	.306	.355	.342	.220	1004	530	6	6	7	3	2	7
Wisconsin			Big Ten	18	.302	.239	.257	.410	675	399	9	3	9	13	15	10
Louisville			Big East	19	.262	.360	.377	.050	1016	585	1	10	3	0	0	1
Michigan			Big Ten	20	.258	.197	.177	.400	556	274	7	4	8	17	17	8
Boston College			ACC	21	.245	.270	.275	.190	763	427	4	8	6	5	4	3
Florida St.	12	C	*ACC	22	.111	.168	.165	0	474	256	0	0	0	1	0	0
Oklahoma			Big 12	23	.100	.031	.029	.240	87	45	11	0	5	8	5	6
Georgia Tech			ACC	24	.094	.100	.074	.110	282	114	2	5	1	4	3	2
Northwestern			Big Ten	25	.089	.011	.015	.240	30	24	5	1	4	10	10	5

* - conference champion

Notes:
- Rankings determined using the current (enacted 2005) BCS formula.
- Data from: Final 2005 Bowl Championship Series Standings (2005, December 4). Retrieved 11 November 2006, from Fox Sports - BCSFootball - BCS Standings Archive. Web site: http://msn.foxsports.com/id/7894701_37_1.pdf
Computer rankings
AH - Anderson & Hester | RB - Richard Billingsley | CM - Colley Matrix
KM - Kenneth Massey | JS - Jeff Sagarin | PW - Dr. Peter Wolfe