The BCS is flawed, but that's no secret to many college football fans. 

Houston's epic fall from the BCS Top 10 after Saturday's loss to Southern Mississippi proves it. 

The Cougars were 12-0 and ranked No. 6 in the BCS standings heading into their matchup with the Golden Eagles in the Conference USA Championship Game.

One day after suffering a 49-28 loss at home to No. 24 Southern Miss, the Cougars find themselves all the way down at No. 20 in the BCS rankings.

Southern Miss only jumped two spots to No. 22.

What the hell?

One bad outing against a Top-25 rival and the nation's No. 1-ranked passing attack and scoring offense drops 14 spots in the rankings, how?

It makes such little sense. 

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Southern Miss is a good football team, they finished 11-2 this season and lost those two games by a combined nine points. That's only six more points than No. 2 Alabama lost by this season.

Meanwhile, Houston's 12-0 regular season schedule won't count for anything because it failed to win the conference title game. 

Oregon lost two games, one early and one late, and looked horrible in doing so, yet the Ducks never experienced life outside of the top 10. 

Their Pac-12 schedule was as soft as any and the only decent win they put together was a road win at Stanford a few weeks back.

The BCS is flawed my friends, an LSU-Alabama title game rematch proves that just as much as Houston's ridiculous fall from the top.

Alabama lost at home, just like Houston, and has one win less than the Cougars at season's end.

Just let that sink in. 

 

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