LSU in the Championship Game? Why the BCS Must Go

Ok, let's start with last year and the BCS.

Ohio St. beat Michigan, but Michigan was still ranked #2. The Big 10 season was over. The rest of the nation still had two weeks left, so the voters were told vote to USC if they won Saturday. Saturday came and USC won, and the voters did their job and got USC to #2.

Then ESPN told the voters that they did not want a rematch, so even if USC lost we would need another #2. So they chose Florida.

Florida still needed to win the SEC Championship, which they did. That meant Michigan, who was ranked #2 two weeks ago, got jumped over and they did not play in the title game.

The SEC cried loud enough and the voters got them in. I honestly thought the computers ranked the teams, but I was wrong. The voters hold supreme control and the BCS does not exist.

I guess that's the moral of the story for last season.

Then this year came. Whoever was ranked #2 lost. It happened all year long.

The final regular season BCS rankings came out, and the top 7 was: #1 Missouri, #2 West Virginia, #3 Ohio St., #4 Georgia, #5 Kansas, #6 Virginia Tech, and #7 LSU.

#1 Missouri played Oklahoma and lost. So we can take Missouri out of the BCS National Title game.

#2 West Virginia played Pittsburgh and lost, so we can take them out as well.

Now #3 through #5 did not play the final week. #6 Va. Tech played #11 Boston College, and won 30-16. Leave them in the BCS picture.

#7 LSU played #14 Tennessee and they won 21-14.

Now #3-#7 did not lose in the final week, but #6 and #7 both won their conference championship. So the next day when they announced the BCS matchups, I figured there was no way that LSU could jump five teams—but I was wrong.

They announced Hawaii made it to the Sugar Bowl, but did not tell us who they would play. So I began thinking that they really were going to put LSU in. Well, they show the Rose Bowl, and no surprise it's USC and Illinois. So that makes sense that #3 Ohio St. is in the Championship game.

So they gave us the next matchup, which was the Fiesta Bowl, and they had Oklahoma and West Virginia. They nailed it, congrats. Now they give us the Orange Bowl that had your #6 ranked Va. Tech and Kansas. Kansas was a surprise but hey, they only lost once so I can give it to them.

Then the moment came that they finally announced the Sugar Bowl match up. Theys said Hawaii vs…#4 Georgia.

Which can only mean one thing: #7 LSU jumped five teams to get in the title game against Ohio St.

WHAT?

What just happened? How did LSU jump over five teams? LSU played the #14 Tennessee Vols, who ended the season with a record of 9-4, and beat them 21-14.

Virginia Tech, who was ranked #6 (that's one spot above LSU) played #11 Boston College, ending the season with a record of 10-3, with the final score of that game being 30-16.

That's right: Va Tech won and was ranked above LSU—yet LSU gets to play in the title game.

All of a sudden, just like last year, the media made a push for LSU. LSU's Coach Les Miles earlier this week said that they were the best 60-minute team. Well congrats to the Tigers—but I thought you needed to play the whole game.

Apparently the rest of the country was like: oh wait, you're right, they lost twice in triple overtime. They truly are the best team in the nation—we do not know why we had five teams ranked above them. That's our fault, but don't worry we will change that for tomorrow.

Trust me folks, I am a Michigan Wolverine fan. I am not cheering for any of the teams ranked #3 to #7—but you go tell Virginia Tech, "great season—but LSU was better than you in week two."

Whoa whoa whoa…

I thought if you lost late in the season that hurt you more than an early loss. Va Tech's losses happened on 9/8 at LSU and 10/25 against BC. LSU lost at Kentucky on 10/13, and against Arkansas on 11/23.

Those are the facts people. Va Tech's two losses came against ranked teams, while LSU lost to an Arkansas team that struggled to find their identity all year.

I guess all that the BCS proves is that you must cry to the media to make it to the national title game. Forget about having integrity—like Frank Beamer, who kept his team together throughout the biggest tragedy in college history—and instead go tell the media that you are the best, just like Florida did last year.

Miles listened to that and told the media that the Tigers were the best. The media did their job again and got them in. If you have morals and you want to be the second team in the national title game, all I can say is "good luck" because it simply will not happen. You will be left out.

Instead, go cry to the media and they will work their magic and get you in.

I will give the NCAA credit—they fooled me. They told me that we have computers that figure this stuff out, so the voters no longer control your destiny. All I can say to that is: Bull.

Absolute bull.

I must have been out of my mind. The NCAA needs to bite the bullet and get a playoff system—that's the only fair way. Obviously the system now is completely broken.

Again, last year is a great example. How do you ask a team to take a month and a half off and then play again? That's two different seasons. It will happen again this year, because Ohio St. will be off a month and a half again and if LSU wins it will be a joke, just like last year.

If Va Tech wins, they better allow them to play it off or else we do not have a national title winner. It truly is sad that it came to this, but I guess I should not have been surprised.

The media always gets what it wants.