BCS Poll released: Rematch for BCS National Championship
September 13th, 2014. #1 Missouri defeated #17 Michigan 22-17. It was a close game, a good game, a game most said Michigan might have won had it not been at Columbia. It began Michigan's turnaround though, as since then they have won 11 straight games.
Well January 9th, 2015, Michigan gets that rematch. On a neutral site. For the BCS National Championship. Michigan becomes the second team ever to go to the national championship game with 2 losses. Their win over top 10 Rutgers gave them the sway with the voters in both the Coaches and Harris polls.
Michigan finished 1st in the coaches with 35 1st place votes, and 2nd in the Harris with no first place votes. Missouri finished first in the Harris with 47 1st place votes and 2nd in the coaches poll with 21 1st place votes.
Kansas finished 4th in the Coaches and 5th in the Harris. They recieved no first place votes. Arkansas, 5th in the Coaches and 4th in the Harris, recieved 3 first place votes each.
It is interesting that Missouri beat Arkansas soundly, and beat the only team to beat them soundly, yet some voters think Arkansas deserves the national championship over them. Those votes did not exist last week, so Kansas supporters must be bitter about Missouri beating them.
| NCAA Football Rankings - BCS Rankings - Updated: Dec 14, 2014 |
| RK | LW | TEAM (VOTES) | W | L | POINTS |
| 1 | 5 | Missouri | 11 | 1 | .997 |
| 2 | 3 | Michigan | 11 | 2 | .997 |
| 3 | 4 | TCU | 12 | 1 | .989 |
| 4 | 6 | Arkansas | 11 | 1 | .981 |
| 5 | 1 | Kansas | 12 | 1 | .981 |
| 6 | 2 | Boise State | 12 | 1 | .969 |
| 7 | 8 | Oregon | 10 | 2 | .961 |
| 8 | 10 | Michigan State | 9 | 2 | .959 |
| 9 | 9 | Ohio State | 10 | 2 | .956 |
| 10 | 11 | LSU | 11 | 2 | .944 |
| 11 | 12 | Wisconsin | 10 | 2 | .937 |
| 12 | 7 | Rutgers | 11 | 2 | .934 |
| 13 | 13 | UCLA | 10 | 2 | .916 |
| 14 | 14 | USF | 11 | 1 | .910 |
| 15 | 15 | Miami | 9 | 3 | .897 |
| 16 | 22 | Fresno State | 11 | 2 | .893 |
| 17 | 16 | Middle Tennessee State | 10 | 1 | .884 |
| 18 | 19 | Virginia Tech | 9 | 3 | |
| 19 | 20 | Stanford | 8 | 4 | |
| 20 | 21 | Navy | 11 | 1 | |
| 21 | 18 | Ohio | 11 | 2 | |
| 22 | 24 | Houston | 9 | 3 | |
| 23 | 25 | Maryland | 9 | 4 | |
| 24 | -- | Penn State | 8 | 4 | |
| 25 | -- | Utah State | 9 | 3 | |