No
How the coaches voted

...how about the big 12 coaches that voted Alabama 3rd. Are they bias too?

Don't know. But they did play against OSU. Just sayin.

Gundy? No.

The Coaches Poll counts for 33% of the BCS rankings. Since it's comprised of 59 coaches, Saban's individual ballot counted for 0.5% of the final BCS ranking.

His Alabama team finished second above Oklahoma State by 0.0086 points.

Saban's poll alone didn't vault the Crimson Tide above OSU. But this whole thing is dumb for a number of reasons:

It's ridiculous that not every coach gets a vote. Why should Saban get to screw over OSU by putting them forth, yet OSU coach Mike Gundy can't do the same because he doesn't have a vote?
It's absurd that coaches of teams with a shot to go to the title game aren't asked to recuse themselves from the Coaches Poll. Look, most coaches are going to do what Saban did to give his own team a leg up. That's what they're paid to do! So why should these openly biased coaches be allowed to vote?
There's no way in hell you can objectively put Stanford above OSU. The Cowboys won what was the best conference in the country statistically. They played the eighth-toughest schedule whereas Stanford played the 64th-toughest. The only reason Saban was able to get away with it is because the two teams have the same number of losses (1) — by EVERY OTHER METRIC, OSU is better.

It's fine if you think Alabama is the most deserving No. 2 team in the country. But it's ridiculous that a biased coach can deflate an opposing team's BCS rating. And it's even more ridiculous that the system allows him to.

Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011...s#ixzz1g0hMf5XF

OSU as #4 was the minority.

So was OSU as #2.

hate all you want.bama is in the game.osu needs to celebrate their FIRST big 12 championship and be happy.big 12 toughest conference? ONLY reason they finally won..texas down this ys.OK down this yr,nebraska gone.

In the back door and laughin' all the way? Great gameplan - play a weak schedule, lose to #1, sit out and recuperate "Championship weekend" slide into the title game on biased voting and then hope for a miracle to beat LSU in the NC and "claim" a National Championship on the technicalities of a flawed system. Even if 'bama wins - LSU 13-1 against a very tough schedule, 'bama 12-1 against a weaksauce schedule = LSU National Champs! Unless you want to play two more games and win them both - LSU is the better team.

want to know how weak the big 12 really is. who's the 2nd best team? Kansas st! how bout the 3rd best team? OMG they don't even have 12 teams anymore those posers!

You inadvertently revealed your primary forecaster

just so you know. osu didn't play a conference championship game either.

Is it hemorrhoids too, or just the most severe case of raw, burning redass ever?

yea, cause he knows bamas gonna win

Go back and research the years 'bama wasn't at the big dance and you'll see alot of the same monkey butt....

My two cents:

There shouldn't even be a coach's poll. How many coaches have time to sit down and evaluate every team on a weekly basis? Answer - none of the do. If they do take the time, they are the same ones you will see on a TV set next season.

he wont address that inconvenient fact.

His argument is deeply rooted in Confirmation Bias.

did you ever think that maybe he thinks OSU is the 4th best team in the country and that Stanford is the 3rd? Guess Shaw from Stanford was out to get OSU by putting his team ahead of them on his ballot.

Interesting indeed. It must be a conspiracy involving ESPN and Saban. Starting now I will be boycotting the game AND taking my football with me.

Darn Yankee has got it bad!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!