OohPooPahDoo
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Except that WHO was considered #2 was debateable.
Oh? And who would you have put above Alabama?
"The only team with a remote chance of passing Alabama at the 11th-hour is Oklahoma State should it beat 9-2 Oklahoma impressively this weekend, though it will take a near-universal about-face from the voters, who currently have the Cowboys fifth. (They're third in the overall standings thanks to the computers.) Bring up this possibility to an Alabama fan, and he or she will of course laugh in your face, pointing out first and foremost that Mike Gundy's team lost to Iowa State.
However, if this were the NCAA basketball tournament,
Buts its NOT. Why does everyone want to turn College football into college basketball? We already have college basketball, assholes.
where the committee members speak of teams' "bodies of work," they'd be comparing the following two résumés (assuming an Oklahoma State victory this weekend):
• Wins over current BCS Top 25 teams: Oklahoma State: 5, Alabama: 2.
• Wins over current BCS Top 50 teams: Oklahoma State: 7, Alabama: 5.
• Wins over FBS teams with winning records: Oklahoma State: 6, Alabama: 3.
• Conference titles: Oklahoma State: 1, Alabama: 0.
• Losses to Iowa State: Oklahoma State: 1, Alabama: 0.
On paper, the Cowboys will have achieved more than the Tide. In real life, however, this is not a debate that's even being given serious consideration (at least yet) for one simple reason: Alabama has a track record; Oklahoma State does not. SEC teams win national championships. Big 12 teams, at least lately, do not. But let's see what happens Saturday night in Stillwater. Voters can be heavily swayed by last impressions. In fact, that's how this whole SEC domination cycle began, back when Florida jumped ahead of Michigan in 2006, warding off a potential Ohio State rematch.
Ultimately, an LSU-Alabama rematch will neither help nor hurt college football. People will watch. They'll accept the result, even if it's a Tide victory that overrides the first meeting. It's happened before (see Florida-Florida State in 1997) and it may happen again.
But the BCS will need to come up with a new slogan, because its current one will soon ring hollow. Here's a simple alteration: "Every game counts ... except when it doesn't.""
Read more: LSU-Alabama rematch makes mockery of BCS system - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
But I think you already knew that. You're lucky, your team won out on getting to play the championship. If they hadn't, you'd be the one complaining. There is a bias for the SEC, pure and simple and it helped Alabama get the game.
If Alabama had played OSU for the NC game OSU would have fired its entire coaching staff by now. It would have been a blow-out of unparalleled proportions. In fact - did you happen to notice that Alabama blew EVERY TEAM IT PLAYED out of the water, EXCEPT LSU in November - who itself blew EVERY TEAM IT PLAYED out of the water - except Bama in the NC?
Getting the drift here? The ONLY teams that could even come close to beating LSU and Alabama were LSU and Alabama - NOT OSU AND NOT IOWA FUCKING STATE for crissakes.
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