So count me in as a Sooner booster, at least for this weekend. The worse this thing plays out, the better it gets for the sort of commotion that could provoke enough anger from the entire state of Texas to join the campaign for a true Division-IA playoff. No offense to the Longhorns, who I believe deserve to be ahead of Oklahoma in any rankings, but I want the Sooners to beat them out.

I want to listen to every word coach Bob Stoops says as he keeps on lobbying for votes, running up the score against the Cowboys and then gets his wish to finish ahead of both Tech and Texas in the BCS rankings.

That would then turn all of Texas into an incensed swing state, and maybe create at least two more hostile university presidents who might be finally willing to change their minds about the relevance of a true playoff system.

So here we are with one week to go, and let’s hope by the end of next weekend, everyone is angry. Let’s hope this weekend, we have to listen to Stoops and Mack Brown and every other coach in the Top 5 who thinks they ought to be one of the lucky top two, lobbying hard for votes.

“There's nothing about that that I like," said USC’s Carroll. “The feeling that you have to campaign or do something like that doesn't sit right with me at all. I don't like it. I try to stay away from that as much as possible. I would always like the play to speak for itself. ... I don't blame anybody for doing it. I just don't like taking part of it."

But the current system leaves coaches with no choice but to politic. Early this week, Stoops and Brown were all over television presenting their cases to the public. Brown said you can’t put OU ahead of his Longhorns, because Texas beat OU. Stoops countered with this effective argument. Once-beaten Texas was ranked ahead of once-beaten Texas Tech in all the human polls, computer rankings and the BCS rankings, even though the Longhorns lost to Tech.

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“So if voters can logically determine that it’s OK for Texas to leap over Tech, then why isn’t it logical for (OU) to leap over Texas in the same polls?” Stoops said. “If you use that logic with Texas, why doesn’t the same logic apply to us?”

And now that we’ve talked about the human element, let’s pick apart the computer element and its imperfections in the BCS process. Many of the analysts who study the machinations of the rankings say Texas' win against Texas A&M won't help it with the computers.

That means by Sunday evening when the BCS standings are announced the Big 12 South winner will be determined in the worse possible way imaginable. They all say that the Sooners are going to leap right over Texas, and that’s just not right.

It’s wrong. It’s stupid, and I hope it happens.

You know what they say. Don’t mess with Texas.

Maybe that’s exactly what we need to get rid of the BCS nonsense and get a real playoff system in motion.

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