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Yeah, LSU is #1 because the REAL #1 team in the nation got hosed and couldn't even show their stuff in the big game. Nothing like the home field advantage in the national championship game!
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Amen! Well said.
I'm an SEC fan and even I believe that LSU doesn't deserve the "National Championship" title all to themselves.
They looked amazing last night, but I'm not sure if it was because they ARE amazing or that OSU looked horrible.
At any rate... Congrats to LSU AND USC on their National Titles.
An intersting aside: This morning's paper featured an article by the BCS Commissioner admitting that the current system is a mistake.
YA THINK?????
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BCS Coordinator's Wish List: Revise System, Chuck Computers
By JOEY JOHNSTON
jjohnston@tampatrib.com
Published: Jan 5, 2004
NEW ORLEANS - Big East Conference commissioner Mike Tranghese, in his last days as coordinator of the Bowl Championship Series, shared his personal wish list on Sunday morning:
Revising the current format, perhaps keeping factors such as strength of schedule, losses and quality wins.
Getting rid of the computers.
Relying on the human element, perhaps establishing an NCAA Basketball Tournament-style oversight committee that has the final say on a championship matchup.
It was several hours before the Oklahoma Sooners and LSU Tigers met in the Sugar Bowl, designated as the BCS Championship Game. It was three days after the USC Trojans, ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press and USA Today/ ESPN polls (but No. 3 in the final BCS standings), had soundly beaten Michigan 28-14 in the Rose Bowl.
But the results already seemed inevitable - a split national championship, the very thing the BCS was created to prevent.
Tranghese said he was speaking for himself, not the consensus of BCS-ruling commissioners from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and SEC. <font color="red">But the top-ranked team in the polls being bypassed for the agreed-upon national championship game?
Unacceptable, he said, calling it an ``unintended consequence.'' </font>
``We talked about the possibility of a team being ranked No. 1 in the polls (and not making the BCS top two), but we never, ever thought or considered that it would happen,'' said Tranghese, who will give way to Big 12 commissioner Kevin Wieberg, the new BCS coordinator, next season. ``We should have thought of it.
<font color="red">``We all know it's an imperfect system. But I think we made a mistake. And I think we should be criticized for it.'' </font>
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And they are.
There's more and you can go to tbo.com to read it.