BCS and the sweet, sweet sooners

in order to "answer" the facebook messages, dirty looks, and many emails...yes, i too think the bcs is crazy. in the scenario that has played out for the big 12 south, there was no way that anyone was going to be happy. a three-way tie sucks no matter how you get around it. i think i mentioned a while back how much i love the book, bowls, polls, and tattered souls, a book by one of my favorite writers, stewart mandel. if you feel confused at this point, i highly recommend it. i think if anything, it helped calm me down the years that i felt OU was the one getting screwed.

of course i am happy. and of course i can argue my case for why we deserve it. and of course if the shoe was on the other foot, i'd be ticked off, too. there is just no good way to solve it. and now the pressure is ON the sooners. do i think they can do this? yes. does that matter? no. it's college football. the reasons we love it are some of the same reasons we hate it.

so if any of you care to hear it, i will share my two cents for the best way to solve this whole mess. first, the ncaa needs to either eliminate or require conference championships for all conferences (and if notre dame ever gets good again, they would have to play an extra game if others did - someone, anyone...). and in the event of conference championships, i believe that the top two rated teams should play for the championship, regardless of "north" or "south" divisions (ie, in this case, OU would play the longhorns again for the big 12 title, not mizzou).

second, i think a full-out playoff would just end badly, lots of kids getting hurt, etc.  what would work best after the conference champions were decided would be a plus one scenario, with two games between the teams ranked 1-4, then a final national championship game.  

thoughts?  

there is no way to sort this out and make it 100 percent fair.  but i will say, of the three-way tie, OU did have a very strong case for coming out on top, regardless of how it was decided.  we had the only big-game win on the road.  we beat more ranked teams than any other (#11 tcu, #13 cincinatti, #7 texas tech, #14 oklahoma state) and beat them all soundly.  it's a biased argument, but it's all i have - i am not a computer nor am i a voter, so it's more of a "i'm just sayin" kinda thing.  at this point, i think the most qualified team is going to the big 12 championship. whatever happens up in kc, one of the two best teams in the big 12 will go to the national championship.

we will see how it all shakes out.  friends that are longhorn fans, i agree.  you got the short end of the stick on this one.  but no matter how you slice it, tech fans have an argument, too. they now have to sit and watch after beating a texas team that is now ranked above them and poised to go to a bcs bowl (strangely familiar, huh?). what do they have to look forward to after their excellent season? not much. however, as my ut friend said this morning, "all we had to do was win out and we lost..."  obviously this argument could be made for any of the teams, so in the end, it came down to who had the best entire season.  we all lost one game, and we all should have won out - so really, none of us can say that we deserve it over another.  now i just hope and pray we can go out there, despite our injured players and all the chaos surrounding this week - and take care of business this weekend. let's go OU - represent the big 12 as it should be - the powerhouse conference of the year!!

hopefully at some point the coaches and players will have a voice and all this can be put together a little more fairly - but hey, at least it's better than it used to be...when there was no national title game at all!!   

BOOMER SOONER!!!