Undefeated Florida Or Texas Shouldn't Be National Champions

Hooray for brilliant pundits who picked Florida and Texas as the best two teams in the country at the beginning of the season!  They finally got it right!  Everyone should rejoice that the system finally works, that Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy's prayer rituals finally paid off, and that the football Gods are just and righteous.

Or, there is a different perspective.  Perhaps there is the perspective that everyone else in the country who actually scheduled some challengers is getting robbed at pen-point.  Let me go ahead and shine some light on what I am suggesting.

Florida and Texas managed to put together utter cake-walk schedules this year.  The only real game that Florida has to play in before a conference championship is against LSU, who I'm just going to go ahead and point out, should have lost last week to an less-than-stellar Georgia squad.  That is the same Georgia team that got man-handled by Oklahoma State University.  And that OK St. team is the same squad that got a lesson in humility from Houston.

Texas' schedule is an even bigger embarrassment.  The way the season is shaping up, they won't play a single top-ten team on their way to the National Title game.  Their biggest competition, Oklahoma, hasn't looked like its former self without superstars Jermaine Gresham and Sam Bradford and with a newly structured offensive line.  The shell of the Sooners that is left to challenge the Longhorns lost to Miami and BYU.  If the Red River Rivalry is even close this year, Texas should be dropped in the rankings.

But the preseason accuracy of the big-time journalists in ranking the teams has been astoundingly remarkable when mentioning two teams: the top two teams.  That would be Florida and Texas, and believe it or not, they don't play anyone.

So how has the rest of the preseason poll shaken up?  It has been shaken up drastically by surprising losses, big game moments, and everything in between.  That's because everyone else in the country is actually playing games against real opponents.

Meanwhile, T&F, the dynamic duo of premier athleticism who have been able to beat Rice and The Southern Wank State Nobodies continue marching on down the path towards a showdown that I really have no interest in watching.  Teams like Oklahoma and USC, powerhouse programs who have losses but also DIFFICULT schedules, have been written off from the discussion.  Both teams had losses when missing two superstar players (for OU, Gresham and Bradford, for USC, Mays and Barkley).

Do I honestly think that Florida and Texas are the two best football teams in the country?  Not by a long shot.

We have come across yet another gigantic flaw in the BCS system; one that allows heavyweight contenders to skim along an easy schedule and isolate themselves as an undefeated.  Does that make them the best?  I'd like to see those teams face a Boise State or a Virginia Tech.  But I won't get that chance because we still don't have a playoff.

Just another year of the National Championship game meaning nothing.

And as a final note:

The Pac-10 might be the strongest conference in college football now.  With the SEC only showing strength in Florida, Alabama, and LSU (though I am not sold on LSU) and the Big-12 falling like Superman in a hot-air balloon filled with kryptonite, that title is wide open.  I'm going to go ahead and award it to the conference with USC, an Oregon team that found a terrifying and powerful groove finally, lovable underdogs in Stanford, Washington, and UCLA, and a Cal team that always returns for some wins.  Sorry SEC, your title is forfeit.  Impress me please.