It's the day after the conference championships, which means its the day where everyone complains about the BCS. This year, it's not feisty non-BCS school looking for a shot, it's a team that blew a 17-point lead against an unranked opponent. Boo Hoo. You want a shot at LSU? You should have won the games you were supposed to.
As far as Alabama, yes, they didn't win their conference, but their only loss was to the clear best team in the country which happens to play in the same division of the same conference. Is it Alabama's fault they have LSU in their division? Should that penalize them from another shot at a team that they could have beaten?
The fact of the matter is BCS is about who you lose to and when you lose to. Alabama lost to the best team in the country in overtime at home. Oklahoma State lost to an unranked Iowa State on the road. Which loss is worse? Anybody defending Oklahoma State is doing so because they want to see a different match-up and not the two best teams in the country. Hate to break it to you, but this is the National Championship Game. Not just a post season exhibition like all the other bowls.
Everyone wants to champion the regular season of college football for every game mattering, and they are right. Each game matters. So what if Alabama already played LSU, THAT'S THEIR ONLY LOSS! They took the clear best team to the limit while everyone else lost to teams weren't as good. People want to make this controversial, but it's really not. It's extremely clear who the best two teams are. If you don't like it, well don't watch.
I did a silly boycott of BCS games, and even now, I don't really watch them. But the system makes sense. Don't get upset. Don't lose late in the season. Pretty simple formula. Sure, it's flawed, but a playoff would be flawed. If we had a playoff and Boise State and Houston didn't get in, people would cry. If Alabama was the number 2 seed, people would cry.
Again, to all the outcry for BCS changed, shut up. That's how it works, it's how it always works. Stop whining because the team you wanted didn't get in. The USC-Auburn controversy aside, I can't think of a BCS year that got it wrong. Great teams always rise to the top. Or, they go 2001 Hurricanes on the country. Win or Shut up.
