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2003-12-29 The Team America Has Forgotten It seems like only a month ago Oklahoma was on a collision course with USC to determine the BCS Champion. What a difference a month makes. Now it is USC playing for (possibly) half a championship and Oklahoma playing for the other half. Now I am not here to dispute who should be in the BCS Championship (even Pete Carroll should know they have the right teams) but to discuss the events leading up to where we are today and the odd team out in this whole scenario, LSU. Before the conference championship games, USC was sunning themselves in California content in the knowledge that even though they had beaten precisely nobody, they would be in the BCS Championship. Oklahoma was in Norman, feeling the same way. And LSU was in Baton Rogue getting ready to have to beat Georgia for the second time in 3 months and dreaming of a BCS (non-championship) Bowl. To a man, nearly every sportswriter in America, from PTI, to ESPN, to The Sports Reporters, to Around The Horn, to The Best Damn Sports Show Period, to Regis and Kelly said unequivocally that USC and OU deserved to be in the championship REGARDLESS of whether OU lost to Kansas Stare. Most just considered an OU loss impossible. And LSU looked in, from the outside. Well the impossible happened. OU lost to KSU and the proverbial crap hit the fan, but not because OU lost, but because LSU snuck in. See the "problem" isn't that OU lost, but that LSU got in over USC. Now all of these same sportswriters have hedged and said that "no team who didn't win their conference should be in the BCS Championship." Where was all of that talk before USC was the team getting shut out? Nowhere. And you know why? Because no one is carrying the torch for LSU. No one cares if they are in. And the funny thing is, of the teams left, they are the MOST deserving, much moreso than USC. LSU came out of the toughest conference in football, beat a Top 10 team twice, and had their lone blemish versus a Top 20 team. USC lost to a grossly overmatched Cal team in a game that they should've won going away and can stake their one "quality" win to Wazzou, a team that wouldn't be over .500 in the SEC. LSU will end up beating OU and so long as USC wins, no one will care. In fact, more people will jump ship to vote for USC than for LSU. And why? Because they weren't in the Top 5 to begin the year? What is shaping up for the end of this season is not the fault of the computers nor the BCS, but lies at the feet of the voters, who will surely screw it up again. |
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