All this crap that is going on, from complaining to politicking to flying banners to getting style points, would be gone for the most part if College Football would have a playoff. As long as you’re in the top 8 of the BCS rankings, you’re in. There will be discussion of those lower rankings to get into the playoff, but the National Championship would be settled on the field. Yes there would be upsets and people pissed about losing to a lower seed, but it would be settled on the field with no complaints. If you don’t come to play, you will get beat. No biased media or computers deciding the National Championship game.

Besides, the people who vote in the polls are supposed to rank the best teams in the nation, but it’s turning out to be listening to people (cough…Mack Brown and ESPN) politic for certain teams. And then proceed to vote other teams down to help other teams and they can do it, because their votes aren’t public. As much as I hate to say it, but Stoops is right when he said this about the computers, “They don’t have agendas, they don’t have loyalties, they don’t have opinions, they don’t have all the bias that everyone else does. Like it or not, they don’t have all those things and if you say that no one else does, then you’re not really being truthful.” But for once in the time of the BCS, the computers like OU.

The head to head element with OU losing to Texas is irrelevant. USC and Florida both lost early in the season and look at where they are now, #4 and #5 in the nation. OU lost early and they should be ahead of Texas, because they lost late in the season to Texas Tech. The voters have always, and I mean always, punished teams that lost late in the season. I’m not sure why, probably because it is fresher on their minds and they have probably forgotten about the earlier losses. I never said I agree with this, but that has been the system probably before I was even born.

OU doesn’t need to apologize for what happened. The flaw is in the system. All Oklahoma did was win their games and let the pollsters and computers do the rest. OU has one of the best, if not the best, resumes in College Football this year. The media should be apologizing to OU for all the ridiculous politicking they did for Texas. Kirk Herbstreit, Mark Schlabach, ESPN/ABC (TSPN – Texas Sports Programming Network), and it’s announcers were constantly plugging Texas. Everytime I watched a Big 12 game, all I heard was that Texas beat OU on a neutral field, 45-35 signs, interviews with Mack Brown, interviews with columnists on ESPN constantly talking about Texas, etc. Stoops took the high road in declining to do these interviews. Listen, Mack didn’t have to come on the phone or do interviews about this, because all those aforementioned people did it for them. All I’ve heard is that Texas should be in no matter what. They beat OU. Now Herbstreit says Alabama and Florida are the best two teams in the nation. Hello, what in the world have you been doing for the past two weeks? Watching OU kick the crap out of ranked opponents and your going to sit there and tell me that Alabama is better than OU. Bull Crap! Florida is a way better team. They are going to beat Bama by 35 pts. It won’t be a game. Oklahoma and Florida are the two best teams in the nation. I would love for Bama to win so OU can beat them, cause once Bama gets behind, they are not going to catch OU. They have no offense and their defense may slow OU down like OSU did, but OU still scored 61 pts on them.

Here’s an idea to fix the tie breaker in the Big 12 (which they will probably do next year). Get rid of the North and South divisions. Keep the rotation of the 3 teams every two years along with the same 5 teams you always play. This would put the two best teams in the Big 12 Championship game. This year, OU would play Texas and it would be settled on the field. Many times the North or South opponent doesn’t deserve to be in the Championship game, like Missouri this year. They are the 5th best team in the Big 12.  Just a thought.  Here are some other thoughts that I have been reading.  Click on the links for the full articles.  

Eleven Lessons Learned: BCS process just stinks; Karma haunts Texas
Nov. 30, 2008
By Eric Sorenson – CBSSports.com 

Lesson 2
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. 

 
BCS antics leading to disturbing poll trend
By Brad Edwards – ESPN.com

When the BCS was created many years ago, the polls were supposed to provide a passive element of the overall formula. But as the polls have been given more power, there’s been a trend toward voters attempting to serve a very active role as a virtual selection committee.  Ballots have ceased to be one man’s opinion. Some of them are trying to manipulate the outcome of the race, and that’s not what the polls were intended to do.
Thanks to the Big 12 for exposing yet another flaw in this system!