BCS Rankings 2011: Alabama, LSU and Oklahoma About to Prove BCS Wrong

The three of these teams sit atop the rankings like a Christmas tree topping threatening to topple the whole display. The BCS rankings will finally be unveiled, and it will only serve to cause more heartache than anything. 

Seven weeks in, we have no idea of who the true collegiate power should be. The voters have changed their allegiances every week, putting the top three in a never-ending carousel that will stop next week. 

Those "lesser" polls give way to the barometer we care so much about. The BCS will slot Alabama, LSU and Oklahoma in a one through three illustration of power, leaving the majority of the nation to cry foul. 

Let me state that I am leaning toward crowning Alabama as the No. 1 going into the first BCS rankings. They have shown the most versatility on both sides of the ball, and their defense is just devastating. 

Now, I understand that many of you are crying out loud that LSU has just a stout defense, and Oklahoma has proved to be the most insurmountable foe. 

Therein lies the conundrum. We put such weight behind these polls on a weekly basis. When in fact, they only matter at the very end of the season. 

The season will continue and unfold the bigger picture as it always does. The polls may not be in agreement this week, but they will find a commonplace soon enough. 

Luckily, we have a playoff of sorts in the clash between LSU and Alabama that is but a couple weeks off. That will answer the burning question between those two defenses. 

The real worry is that we put far too much weight in the initial polls by the BCS. There are many that will cry from the hilltops that Week 8 is, by all accounts, just plain wrong. 

The fact that Alabama, LSU and Oklahoma are all viable No. 1 teams proves that BCS is about to run headlong into a fool's errand. The major teams should come away from the weekend unscathed, leaving BCS to answer a question that has no validity, at least not yet. 

Next week we get a solution most of us will find to be dead wrong. That is the beauty of the BCS, I guess. It furthers the discussion—and from a fan's standpoint, that is all we ever want anyway.