But, like you alluded to in your opening paragraph, it’s something I’d just as soon not think about because it only brings sorrow.

I also think if we beat Oklahoma State, we don’t get hammered nearly as bad in Austin. That OSU game definitely beat us twice (not saying we’d have beaten UT, but our psyche definitely wasn’t all there for the opening kickoff).

In some ways, however, I think our two losses (again, assuming we beat kU), give us a better shot to win the Big 12 title game. Right now, it’s just a foregone conclusion that we’re going to lose to whoever we play in the title game (and we might very well do exactly that). But ALL of the pressure will be on who we play. And assuming a decided victory over the Jennison Jayhawkers, then we’ll have a nice Mizzou crowd to support us during the championship.

I’m not going to predict a win or anything, but I like being under the radar a little bit. As the great sports philosopher Lou Brown once said, “I’m not much for giving inspirational addresses, but I’d just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to lose. The local press seems to think that we’d save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves. Me, I’m for wasting sportswriters’ time. So I figured we ought to hang around for a while and see if we can give ’em all a nice big shitburger to eat!”

There would still be a good chance that both Texas and Texas Tech would have higher BCS totals than Mizzou based on their strength of schedule.

Remember that Oklahoma State’s value to the strength of schedule component drops if they don’t defeat Mizzou

I would predict that the current top-10 would be:
1. Alabama
2. Oklahoma
3. Texas
4. Missouri
5. Florida
6. Southern California
7. Utah
8. Penn State
9. Texas Tech
10. Boise State

Missouri is ahead of Florida because a loss at Texas (over a month ago) doesn’t hurt as bad as a loss at home vs. Ole Miss.
Texas Tech played a weaker OSU team, so that ding to their SOS drops them below Penn St.
Texas loses a few points in SOS from beating a weaker OSU team and is below Oklahoma. Ironically, in reality, the fact that OSU beat MU makes OU’s game against them the likely push past Texas in BCS Rankings.

Assuming all 4 teams win, OU plays Missouri in the Conference Title game, no different than what is the situation in reality.

HOWEVER: I predict that a top-5 Missouri would not be as likely to catch Oklahoma off-guard, and would have less chance of beating OU in the Conference Title game.

Missouri would likely lose to a motivated OU team, but get an invite to their 2nd straight Cotton Bowl

If Mizzou would have beaten Okie St., we would be in the national title contention. If we would go on to win the big 12 with only one loss it would have been possible. Ever since that loss Daniel hasn’t been the same quarterback. It still would be nice to kill Kansas and win the big 12. Then we would still get a BCS bowl. But there is a lot IF’s in the world.