Split National Championship

I am convinced more than ever, that there should be a split national championship this year. The only thing I am not convinced of is, who the AP champion should be. For a fan of anyone of a team outside the SEC or Big 12 all we had to hear leading up to the BCS Championship game announcement was how good the conferences were so their champions should play for the title. Well anyone who read my blog would have known that one of the reasons those leagues were ranked so high was because of their out of conference competition being pathetic. As of today the Big 12 South is 0-2 in bowls (Texas and Oklahoma have yet to play) and the SEC powerhouse Alabama got throttled in SEC country by Utah. Whoever loses the BCS title game will add more fuel to the fire for those of us who didnt just follow what ESPN wanted us to believe. If Florida loses, then both of the SEC powers this year would have lost their bowl games making it clearly obvious that the SEC wasnt one of the top 2 leagues this year. If Oklahoma loses, then the Big 12 South would be 1-3 at best in the bowls. That would be pathetic seeming every week we had to watch them play at 8 pm on ABC and listen to how that particular division was the best in all of college football. Well a 1-3 record in the bowls would wipe that theory out. So, either way one of the media contenders will be found out a fraud. The only way to reward a team that should have been there instead is to give them the AP title. If Oklahoma wins, then I believe that Texas should split the title with Oklahoma. After all, they beat Oklahoma head to head. If Florida beats Oklahoma, then it would come down to Utah or USC. I would be happy with either one, but obviously I am biased towards the Trojans. It would be great to Utah win it as well because it would show that a team outside the Big 6 conferences can do it.

On a side note, if Oklahoma loses can we please stop putting them in the BCS title game! The SEC for all their talk would have won 4 of the last 6 championships. Their 4 wins were against Ohio State (twice) and Oklahoma (twice). As a fan of USC (who have been robbed of being in multiple championship games by both Ohio State and Oklahoma) I would love to never see either of those teams get the benefit of the doubt for another decade. Ohio State (assuming they lose tonight) would have lost 3 straight BCS games. The Big 10 would be 0-6 in BCS games the last 3 years and could be 1-6 this year in bowls with a Buckeye lost tonight. Oklahoma would have lost 5 straight BCS games! How you can continually get in games you dont belong in with a background of 5 straight loses is ridiculous. Fight on!