Hawaii-Georgia: The Real BCS Championship Game

So we finally crowned the lucky winners of the BCS lottery:

Ohio State—a team that was in the right BCS position at the right BCS time.

And LSU—a team with two overtime losses and a number of nail-biter wins.

If you ask me, though, Hawaii and Georgia deserve to be playing for all the marbles. 

Hawaii is the only undefeated team in the nation—and still hasn't received an ounce of respect after scoring 28 unanswered points against the University of Washington.

As I see it, beating a Pac-10 team—a BCS conference team—should be enough to get the Warriors to the Big Dance.

For those who don't think this is enough of a ticket, Washington is the only BCS conference opponent with enough guts to schedule a game against the Warriors. How many BCS teams were supposed to play Hawaii and backed out?

Michigan, Michigan State and Texas.

All were asked to play Hawaii and all backed out. If that isn't respect, then I don't know what is.

And don't forget about the Bulldogs, Hawaii's Sugar Bowl opponents. Georgia is one of the hottest teams in the country, and had a higher BCS ranking than both LSU and Tennessee before the SEC Championship Game.

But when the final polls came out, idle Georgia fell one position while idle Ohio State moved up two spots.

How does that happen?

Well, as Lee Corso said during the BCS Selection Show, big names mean big public relations.

In a close race, the team with the bigger name will win out—and that's why the Buckeyes find themselves playing for the national title.

Who did OSU play that was really all that good—Wisconsin? Michigan? Illinois?

Give me a break.

I think Lou Holtz put it best when he noted that Oklahoma went out and scheduled a big-time nonconference FBS team in Miami, while Ohio State and others bought out the cupcake bakery.

It's important not to underestimate the impact of slanted media coverage in influencing human voters.

When Kirk Herbstreit said that LSU was still the best team in the nation after losing to Kentucky, my stomach turned.

When he said that LSU was the true No. 2 during the BCS Show, I almost lost my dinner.

Sure, LSU plays in the toughest conference in the nation—but that doesn't mean the Tigers deserve to play for the BCS Championship just because they beat a Tennessee team that was lucky to beat Kentucky in four OTs.

As far as I'm concerned, the BCS got things backwards with the Sugar Bowl and the title game.

LSU vs. Ohio State?

Pardon me while I yawn and flip the channel.

Here's to the true No. 1 and No. 2—Hawaii and Georgia.

The winner of that matchup will be my national champion.