Tigers Ranked 7th in First BCS Standings

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CLEMSON, SC -- The season's first Bowl Championship Series' standings were released tonight during the telecast of the ABC Monday Night Football game between the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets. The Tigers were ranked seventh just 0.04 points behind sixth ranked Florida.

The BCS standings is a statistical rating system that determines which teams will participate in the national championship game of the Bowl Championship Series. The current BCS standings system has been in use for each of the past two seasons.

The standings consist of four major components: subjective polls of the writers and coaches, computer rankings, schedule strength and team record. The two teams which have the lowest point total in the four categories will play in the national championship game in the FedEx Orange Bowl on January 3, 2001.

BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES STANDINGS; (Games Through October 21)

Rank	Team	        Avg.	Avg.	Rank	Losses	Total


 1.	Nebraska	1.0	1.57	1.04	0	3.61	


 2.	Oklahoma	3.0	1.71	0.72	0	5.43


 3.	Virginia Tech	2.0	4.14	0.52	0	6.66


 4.	Miami (FL)	4.5	4.14	0.12	1	9.76	


 5.	Florida State	6.0	4.14	1.00	1	12.14


 6.	Florida	        7.5	6.86	0.84	1	16.20	


 7.	Clemson	        4.5	7.86	3.88	0	16.24


 8.	Oregon	        8.5	8.00	0.60	1	18.10	


 9.	Washington	9.0	9.57	0.32	1	19.89


10.	Kansas State	9.0	8.71	3.04	1	21.75


11.	Ohio State	12.5	10.14	0.92	1	24.56


12.	Georgia	        12.5	14.00	1.96	1	29.46


13.	TCU	        11.0	16.29	4.36	0	31.65


14.	So.Mississippi	14.0	15.7	3.16	1	33.87


15.	Purdue	        16.0	15.57	1.12	2	34.69

EXPLANATION:

Poll Average - Average of USA Today/ESPN Coaches and AP Media Polls. Others

receiving votes calculated in order received.

Computer Average - Average of Richard Billingsley, Dunkel Index, Kenneth

Massey, New York Times, David Rothman, Jeff Sagarin's USA Today,

Matthews/Scripps-Howard, and the Anderson&Hester/Seattle Times rankings.

The computer component will be determined by averaging the seven highest

computer rankings. The lowest computer ranking will be disregarded.

Schedule Rank - Rank of schedule strength compared to other Division I-A

teams of actual games played divided by 25. This component is calculated by

determining the cumulative won/loss records of the team's opponent (66 2/3

percent) and the cumulative won/loss records of the teams' opponent's

opponents (33 1/3 percent).

Losses - One point for each loss during the season.

Notes: BCS Standings each week will list the top 15 teams.

Full BCS Rankings

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