Buster Olney has an article on the voting process, with which he apparently finds fault. Maybe Bob with his fancy "ESPN Insider" account can fill us in...
Olney says that the managers and coaches get together and settle on a candidate for each position after a brief discussion centered around what a player did against them.
hah! primarily does not = solely. good man! at least the bears have a shot at the rose bowl this year, while ucla, well... let's just skip that discussion.
the vegas bowl? you don't think oregon or WSU would probably end up there? perhaps the poinsettia vs. navy or something, but they would have to win at least 3 of their games i think. and the only team left on UCLA's schedule i give them an even or better chance of beating is ASU.
i don't really know how the bowl system works (heck, does anyone REALLY know?), but while 6-6 may be good enough for bowl eligibility, i guess the other determining factor is whether UCLA were the 6th-ranked school in the pac-10, right? doesn't it usually work out that the pac-10 winner gets to the rose bowl, the 2nd place team goes to the holiday, 3rd to the vegas bowl, and then maybe after that is the emerald bowl, sun bowl and the hawai'i bowl. this year the insight bowl is going to do a big 10/big 12 matchup.
so, ucla has to get 6th place and be 6-6. possible, i suppose, but difficult. especially the way oregon state is playing lately.
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I'm guessing that the first one will be the next one.
Then they send in the ballots.
Primarily because it's clean.
Don't forget the Emerald Bowl!
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so, ucla has to get 6th place and be 6-6. possible, i suppose, but difficult. especially the way oregon state is playing lately.
Let's say Cal beats UCLA today and USC beats Stanford (one is easier to assume than the other).
Cal 6-0, 8-1
USC 5-1, 7-1
Oregon 4-2, 7-2
OSU 4-2, 6-3
Wazzu 4-3, 6-4
ASU 2-4, 5-4
UCLA 2-4, 4-5
If UCLA won 6 games, they would likely have wins over ASU and OSU and a loss to USC. So they'd probably be the #5 team in the conference.
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