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BCS Standings 2012, Week 12: Nebraska, Michigan represent Big Ten in BCS

Nebraska stayed among the ranks of the teams in the BCS Standings while Michigan entered to give the conference two teams in the top 25. Meanwhile, Kansas State and Oregon are the country's top two teams after Alabama's loss.

By Rodger Sherman
Eric Francis

The Big Ten kept two teams in the Week 12 edition of the BCS standings, but Michigan swapped in for Northwestern after their 38-31 overtime victory over the Wildcats.

Nebraska kept their spot in the rankings, moving up from No. 16 to No. 14 after scoring 12 straight points to beat Penn State 32-23. Northwestern had entered their matchup with Michigan at No. 24, but was still considered a major underdog to beat the Wolverines in the Big House. They almost did, but a deflected Hail Mary caught by Roy Roundtree set up a last-second field goal to send the game into overtime, where they eventually won. After being unranked, Michigan is now No. 21.

The real drama in the standings this week came at the top, with Kansas State taking over the top spot and Oregon slotted in at No. 2. The two teams are more or less even and could swap over the next few weeks, but the important thing is that they'd both appear in a hypothetical national title game if it happened today. No. 3 Notre Dame will need some help from one of them in the form of a loss, while Alabama fell to No. 4 with their loss to Texas A&M, likely ending their hopes of repeating.

Here's the full standings for Week 12:

BCS Harris Poll USA Today Computer Rankings
RK TEAM AVG PVS RK PTS % RK PTS % AVG A&H RB CM KM JS PW %
1 Kansas State .9674 2 2 2774 .9649 2 1427 .9675 2 1 1 3 2 2 2 .970
2 Oregon .9497 3 1 2844 .9892 1 1460 .9898 4 4 3 5 4 5 4 .870
3 Notre Dame .9396 4 3 2634 .9162 3 1346 .9125 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 .990
4 Alabama .8534 1 4 2494 .8675 5 1243 .8427 5 5 4 4 5 9 5 .850
5 Georgia .8328 5 5 2398 .8341 4 1260 .8542 6 6 5 6 7 4 6 .810
6 Florida .7955 6 7 2113 .7350 7 1079 .7315 3 3 6 2 3 3 3 .920
7 LSU .7331 7 8 2082 .7242 8 1040 .7051 7 7 7 9 6 6 7 .770
8 Texas A&M .6621 15 10 1842 .6407 10 967 .6556 8 9 10 8 8 10 8 .690
9 South Carolina .6349 8 11 1732 .6024 11 903 .6122 8 8 9 10 9 8 9 .690
10 Florida State .6071 10 6 2175 .7565 6 1143 .7749 17 16 17 14 0 0 16 .290
11 Clemson .5921 13 9 1972 .6859 9 1033 .7003 15 15 14 13 22 0 14 .390
12 Oklahoma .5797 12 12 1631 .5673 12 799 .5417 10 13 8 15 10 7 10 .630
13 Stanford .5705 14 13 1621 .5638 13 793 .5376 11 10 11 7 11 11 11 .610
14 Nebraska .4679 16 14 1239 .4310 14 653 .4427 13 12 15 11 12 18 12 .530
15 Texas .4259 17 15 1095 .3809 15 615 .4169 14 14 12 16 14 13 15 .480
16 Oregon State .4161 11 16 1081 .3760 17 490 .3322 12 11 13 12 13 12 13 .540
17 UCLA .2925 18 19 870 .3026 16 494 .3349 20 18 24 17 20 21 21 .240
18 USC .2769 19 18 886 .3082 21 343 .2325 17 21 19 22 17 16 18 .290
19 Louisville .2159 9 17 943 .3280 18 442 .2997 27 24 0 20 0 0 0 .020
20 Louisiana Tech .1911 20 20 728 .2532 19 413 .2800 25 0 22 24 0 0 24 .040
21 Michigan .1665 NR 24 264 .0918 23 144 .0976 16 17 21 18 18 20 17 .310
22 Rutgers .1529 23 21 571 .1986 20 354 .2400 27 25 0 19 0 0 25 .020
23 Texas Tech .1416 22 22 325 .1130 25 106 .0719 20 20 16 0 21 15 23 .240
24 Oklahoma State .1088 NR NR 118 .0410 24 111 .0753 22 19 18 0 19 19 0 .210
25 Washington .0850 NR NR 1 .0003 NR 7 .0047 19 22 23 25 15 14 19 .250

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