Ohio State fans don’t need to be told again that the Rose Bowl (or any other bowl) is not happening this year. They’re exquisitely aware that the one-year postseason ban imposed by the NCAA is capping the OSU season at 12 games and leaving it out of Big Ten championship contention.
As a result, the official BCS rankings don’t include Ohio State, and that makes sense—the rankings are for postseason BCS bowl eligibility, after all, and OSU’s not going anywhere. Same with Penn State. So as a result, we get BCS rankings where Nebraska sits at No. 20 and the rest of the conference sits on its hands at home.
That’s fine, and for the BCS’s purposes, that’s the way it ought to be. But let’s not forget that these BCS rankings are also what ESPN uses for its chyrons in score updates and during games, so it looks as if the Big Ten’s best team is barely in the Top 20, and we know that’s not true.
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