I can never top Peter Bean's Camus-inspired homage to Kirk Bohls' latest column in the Austin American-Statesman, "Coaches showing Texas no love." But I can't resist, either, when someone who shows so much disdain for computer polls and the process so thoroughly fails to connect the dots beyond his next deadline.

Specifically, Bohls can't understand why the Coaches' Poll ranks one-loss Oklahoma ahead of one-loss Texas for the second week in a row, when Texas just beat Oklahoma by 10 points last month, and that the other final polls might actually fall that way, too:

So why exactly are many of the 61 head football coaches who vote in the USA Today top 25 poll showing Texas no love and ranking Oklahoma above it?
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The Sooners are already on the brink of overtaking the Longhorns [in the BCS], and that's dead wrong.

Since when does head-to-head not count? It's like ranking Grenada No. 1 ahead of the United States. Head-to-head results have to be the No. 1 criteria for breaking a deadlock between two teams. All the rest is speculation.

I agree with Bohls and the other AP writers who reversed course and moved UT in front of Oklahoma this week -- check their standing on my own ballot -- and if he had written, "The Sooners have already overtaken the Longhorns in the Coaches' Poll, and that's dead wrong," that would make sense. The coaches are way out of line ranking Oklahoma ahead of Texas right now, because not doing so would be speculation.

Emphasis on right now. Because if voters have no memory, Bohls has no foresight. As it's printed, he seems to be saying OU shouldn't even be on the brink of overtaking Texas after the result in the Cotton Bowl. Presumably, that taboo extends through the rest of the season, even through Oklahoma's potential wins over Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. If head-to-head is so sacrosanct, the "No. 1 criteria for breaking a deadlock," I wonder how Bohls would untangle this head-to-head reality if the Sooners beat Tech next week:

Texas > Oklahoma > Texas Tech > Texas

This isn't wild "speculation" -- the Big 12 South situation won't change before Oklahoma and Tech hook up (both teams are off this week), and Oklahoma will probably open a slight favorite as the home team. To my thinking, the above circle of death the most immediately likely scenario, and if it's not -- if the Raiders win in Norman -- the controversy ends with an undefeated Tech moving on to the conference championship and the two-loss Sooners falling by the wayside. Still, Texas is adrift. And should Texas Tech advance and lose to Missouri for its first loss -- or should Oklahoma move on and get hit with its second loss in the Big 12 title game, still leaving UT and Tech with one loss apiece -- by Bohls' reasoning, Texas is still screwed: one-loss Raiders must trump one-loss Longhorns. You know, scoreboard.

Don't worry so much about the specific hypotheticals. The point is, Bohls is raving over a status quo that is guaranteed to change within two weeks, before the subjectivity of voters or computers can lift or snub anyone in any consequential way. And it's pretty much guaranteed to change in a way Texas fans aren't going to like. If Oklahoma wins its last two games over teams currently in everyone's top-15, the Sooners will probably move ahead of Texas thanks to OU's better non-conference wins, and on to the Big 12 Championship. And with another win there, on to the so-called national championship. Either Oklahoma does it, or Texas Tech will.

Either way, it's as fair as the current system can possibly be, if you just look at the entire schedule. Texas played a non-conference slate of Florida Atlantic, UTEP, Arkansas and Rice and lost its right to complain about Texas Tech's equally soft road (should the need arise) by losing to the Raiders. Until there's a new system -- and bring it on, already -- reality is showing Texas no love. The Coaches' poll vote on Nov. 9 is completely meaningless. The actual results down the stretch are going to box the Lonhorns out all on their own.