You make several good points. One is that Tech got screwed worse than we did. At least we got a BCS bowl game. The “share the wealth sort-of” philosophy that prevents more from 2 teams in a conference from playing in BCS games is patently unfair, as is the obverse, guaranteed conference slots no matter how weak the conference that year. Does anyone think Cincinnati, Utah, or Va would have a chance against Tech? And if you are talking about TV audience and money, which would attract more viewers Tech or Cinicinatti?

I agree with it all. Especially the love fest with Florida. How to these people sleep at night?

Florida plays in an inferior conference this year, and lost AT HOME. We lose on a last second play on the road after one of the toughest stretches in NCAAF history. It’s ridiculous.

I can deal with OU being a top 2 team. It makes me sick, but I get it. What don’t get is that people aren’t even taking a second to consider that Texas DOES have a better case than Florida.

People have been so busy jerking off about the SEC for the past few years that everyone seems to agree that the SEC champ is entitled to a MNC spot. It’s bullshit.

Texas just learned what karma is all about.

The Longhorns are up in arms about Oklahoma getting voted into the Big 12 title game. They should be. But look beyond the anger. This is payback My Name Is Earl-style.

Rewind to December 4, 2004 when Cal had just won at Southern Miss by 10 points (which included taking a knee with a minute left inside the USM 10) and was ranked No. 4 and in line to get picked up by the Rose Bowl since No. 1 USC was going to the Orange Bowl to win the national title. But then Mack Brown publicly politicked and allegedly made a number of glad-handing phone calls to his poll-voting cronies, begging them to rank his Longhorns ahead of the Bears in the final regular-season poll. This tactic worked. Cal’s lead over Texas in the coaches poll went from 48 points to five allowing the ’Horns to jump the Bears in the final BCS poll and get the Rose Bowl bid.

Guess what Longhorns, 2008 is your karma for 2004. OU gets to go to the Big 12 title game because you only beat the Sooners by 10. Only this time it looks like it cost you a shot at the national title. Grin and bear it.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer team! Go Bears! http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/sportsline

Because of this OU will benefit on the mistake by the big 12 not once but twice

With Congress these days having hearings on steriods and the MLB. This should, I hope, prompt congress to act and have hearings on the BCS and how voters vote.

http://www.themonkeycage.org/2008/12/bcs_declares_germany_winner_of.html

It amazes me that for a week all we heard was head to head and 45-35. Now that ou is going to the national championship game lets talk head to head and 39-33 to determine the other bcs representative. I didn’t think so. It amazes me how ut dismisses the ut/TECH game. The game should have not been that close, Tech had 200 more yards and if not for that one long pass play, TECH would have DOUBLE ut’s yardage.

Brian Orakpo as the defensive player of the year. what a joke. Give it to someone who produced all year. He got OWNED in the Tech game before he got hurt. ut played better without him.

All the whining about how Leach voted makes me laugh. Maybe if ut and that whimpering mack brown thought about before they discredited Tech and the ut/Tech game, you might not got dissed. what goes around comes around. 39-33

So, it looks like two Texas congressmen are sponsoring legislation that would prohibit the BCS from declaring a team “national champions” without having a playoff system in place. I doubt that it will pass, but I never even considered that the FTC could do something about replacing the BCS with a playoff. Thoughts?

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