Why They had time to plan.In the last five bowl games, the Sooners are 1-5all those teams had time to plan.There should have been little doubt that the Cougars had a good chance to upset the Sooners. After all, the Sooners lost four starters from their offensive line while BYU came in with the best defensive line in the Mountain West, sporting senior leadership at nearly every position in the front seven.It doesn't matter that Sam Bradford went out of the game. BYU was dominating the game prior to his ousting and likely would have won regardless Why BYU had time to plan. Say what you want about this argument being shallowthe proof is in the win-loss department.Oklahoma has been living off Bob Stoops' good name and Oklahoma's proud tradition but, let's be honest, they have been anything but top 5 worthy based on their BCS showing over the last five years.Here's the preseason top 10 as determined by an overall concensus of the most popular polls:FloridaTexasOklahomaUSCAlabamaOhio StateVirginia TechOklahoma StateOle MissLSUSee a team that doesn't belong All of those teams have looked awful at some point this season. None have looked like national title contenders.A ranking should be earned, not awarded based on the expectation of greatness. It's unfair to the other 109 teams who come to play on Saturday.Scrap the rankings until teams have earned the right to be ranked at all; maybe then the performances will be more even and all the "upsets" won't be nearly as big a surprise.. 
Equitable Resources Announces 31 Increase in Total Natural Gas ReservePotentialPITTSBURGH, Jan 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Equitable Resources, Inc. (NYSE:EQT) estimates year-end 2008 total natural gas reserve potential, includingproved, probable and possible reserve categories (3P), at 9,470 Bcfe; a 31net increase over the 2007 total of 7,227 Bcfe. This increase was mainlydriven by the success of the company's Huron horizontal drilling program andprogress made on the Marcellus and Berea plays. 69, divided by the total net reserve additions,which include purchases, sales, extensions, discoveries and other additions,and revisions.Equitable Resources is an integrated energy company with emphasis onAppalachian area natural gas production, gathering, processing, transmissionand distribution.Additional information about the company can be obtainedthrough the company's web site, http://;Investor information isavailable on that site at Resources uses its website as a channel of distribution of important information about the company,and routinely posts financial and other important information regarding thecompany and its financial condition and operations on the Investors web pages.Cautionary StatementsAt this time, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") permits oiland gas companies, in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only provedreserves that a company has demonstrated by actual production or conclusiveformation tests to be economically and legally producible under existingeconomic and operating conditions. The company uses the terms "probable,""possible," "potential" and other descriptions of volumes of reserves that maybe recoverable through additional drilling or recovery techniques that theSEC's guidelines would prohibit us from including in filings with the SEC.These estimates are by their nature more speculative than estimates of provedreserves and, accordingly, are subject to substantially greater risk of beingactually realized. Investors are urged to consider closely the disclosure inthe company's 2007 Form 10-K filed with the SEC, and in the company's 2008Form 10-K to be filed with the SEC, copies of which may be obtained from thecompany at 225 North Shore Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, Attention: CorporateSecretary. You can also obtain the company's Form 10-K from the SEC by calling1-800-SEC-0330.The company's calculations of replacement ratios and replacement costs maydiffer significantly from the calculations used by other companies who reportsimilar measures.

As a result, our measures may not be comparable to similarmeasures reported by other companies. Statements that do not relate strictly to historical or current facts areforward-looking.Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,forward-looking statements contained in this press release specificallyinclude the expectations of potential reserves. These statements involve risksand uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially fromprojected results.Accordingly, investors should not place undue reliance onforward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results.The company hasbased these forward-looking statements on current expectations and assumptionsabout future events.While the company considers these expectations andassumptions to be reasonable, they are inherently subject to significantbusiness, economic, competitive, regulatory and other risks and uncertainties,most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond thecompany's control. Fuel Tech Awarded Multiple Air Pollution Control Orders Totaling $3.5 Million;Includes First NOxOUT(R) Project in CanadaWARRENVILLE, Ill., Jan 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Fuel Tech, Inc. (Nasdaq:FTEK), a world leader in advanced engineering solutions for the optimizationof combustion systems in utility and industrial applications, today announcedreceipt of multiple air pollution control contracts totaling $3.5 million.