WE ARE...PENN STATE!!!

 Is it time to proclaim the Big 12 the greatest football conference EVER???

After reading about and hearing all the bashing of the Big 10 going on, right along with many folks calling the Big 12 the best thing since sliced bread, I think it’s time we go ahead and name the BCS champion now. 

Good idea?  So, here they are ladies and gentlemen, your BCS champions for the 2008-2009 college football season:  the OKLAHOMA SOONERS!  Forget actually playing the game, who needs that?  According to a bunch of you “experts”, we might as well go ahead and crown the Sooners champs. 

After all, there’s no conference in football as good as the Big 12, is there?  They’ve got all those Heisman candidates: Harrell, Daniel, McCoy, Crabtree, Bradford.  They’ve got some of the best coaches in the game; Stoops, Brown, Pinkel, Leach.  We can just go ahead and name a champ, can’t we?  Well, NO, we CAN’T.

I was born and raised in eastern Pennsylvania.  I’ll say it proudly; I follow Penn State football with a passion.  I’ll be the first to admit if Alabama, Texas Tech, and Penn State all win out, the Tide and Red Raiders should play in the title game. 

If Penn State wins out, and either Alabama or Texas Tech or both lose a game, the Nittany Lions are going to the BCS title game.  If, by some chance, a one-loss team would be selected to go to the title game over an undefeated Nittany Lions team, I pray that JoePa doesn’t find the idiot that came up with the idea of the BCS.

For all you singing the praises of the Big 12, check out these stats.  Since the start of BCS games back in 1999, these are the conference records in all BCS bowl games:  ACC (1-9), Big 12 (6-8), Big East (6-4), Big 10 (8-9), MWC (1-0), Pac 10 (8-4), SEC (11-4), WAC (1-1), Ind (ND) (0-3).

Hats off to the SEC at 11-4; LSU is 4-0, Florida is 3-1.  Hats off to the Pac 10; USC is 5-1.  The 6-4 Big East is led by 3-1 Miami (FL).  Shame on you ACC at 1-9. 

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