BCS Championship Should Avoid All-SEC Rematch After OSU Wins Big 12 Title

Oklahoma State used the week off after losing its first game of the season to Iowa State well, as the Cowboys throttled Oklahoma in the Bedlam game to evict eight years of frustration in the series.

LSU did the same in the SEC Championship game to Georgia after a slow first half.  Looking at the season as a whole, these two teams should be playing for the National Championship, no questions asked.

Although Alabama currently sits at No. 2 in the BCS standings, the Crimson Tide should not be headed to the BCS Championship. Alabama might have the second-most talented team in the country, but the Crimson Tide lost their chance to play for the National Championship by losing at home in October to LSU.

Does anybody really want to see another battle of the field goals in the BCS Championship? Furthermore, if Alabama were to win, then which of these one-loss teams actually deserves the National Title?

LSU would arguably still carry the best resume even with a loss to the Crimson Tide because the split between the two came on a neutral field and at Alabama's home stadium.

Additionally, the BCS is headed for a hornet's nest of negative PR if two teams from the same conference play for the National Title. The BCS is designed to match the best two teams in the country, and those teams (based on resume) are LSU and Oklahoma State, not LSU and Alabama.

Although the SEC has defined greatness in college football the past five seasons, this year the conference is down. Outside of LSU and Arkansas (which is clearly a far cry from elite), nobody else in the SEC or on Alabama's schedule is a powerhouse.

The best wins for Alabama after Arkansas are at Florida (6-6), at Penn State (9-3) and at Auburn (7-5). Alabama missed playing Georgia and South Carolina.

Meanwhile, Oklahoma State played against every team in a loaded Big 12 this season. The Cowboys won at an undervalued Tulsa team, at Texas, at Missouri, blew out Baylor and blew out Oklahoma.  The likes of Texas and Missouri are simply better than Penn State and Auburn this season.

Oklahoma State will likely move above Alabama in most of the computer rankings because of the win over highly ranked Oklahoma, and this indicates the stronger schedule OSU has gone 12-1 against.

Yes, Oklahoma State lost on the road to a four-touchdown underdog by missing a field goal late. But Alabama lost at home by missing four field goals. You cannot simply compare losses, you have to look at the entire resume. And in view of the entire resume, Oklahoma State has a better case for the BCS Championship.

Add the complications and poor PR of having Alabama rematch LSU, and the Cowboys should carry a lot of favor from so-called revolting human voters. Remember that the SEC lobbied in every way possible to prevent a rematch of the best two teams in the country in 2006 (Ohio State and Michigan) and that's how the five-year streak of SEC national champions began.

It is completely hypocritical to not lobby for the same analysis this time between Alabama and Oklahoma State.

If the human voters vote with their minds on more than just comparing losses (or with their hearts), Oklahoma State should overcome Alabama in the final BCS standings. And that is precisely what should happen tomorrow night.

And when LSU wins another National Title in its own backyard, it will be more satisfying to the entire country if LSU knocked off another of the top 10 teams instead of Alabama twice and nobody else but Oregon.

I urge poll voters...please give us Oklahoma State vs. LSU. It is the right thing to do.