It’s Only Fitting, Don’t You Think?
As our friend SMQ might say, They All Fall Down. “#1″ Missouri lost, by a lot, to Oklahoma. “#2″ West Virginia lost by not so much to a team they should have reduced to cinders.
Who should play for the (increasingly) “Mythical” National Championship? Your guess is as good as mine. But given the facts in evidence, the only logical (term used quite loosely) pairing is Ohio State and LSU.
Simple attrition would yield OSU versus Georgia. But a team that couldn’t manage to win their own division has as much “right” to be in that game as Michigan did last year; which is to say, none. The same goes for current #5 Kansas.
Virginia Tech is next in line, and they did win the ACC by putting a pretty good beat-down on former #2 Boston College. Though there is that little matter of LSU, the next team in the list. The Tigers, if you can remember that far back, squeeked one out against the Hokies on their own field. Which gives LSU a decent case. And being the lone undefeated BCS team should help their chances as well.
After that you’ve got USC and Oklahoma. Both conference champions, but both also have cover-your-eyes losses (Standford and Colorado, respectively).
Hawaii? Could they go? They should get into the Top-10, but I doubt they’ll gain enough ground in the computers to overtake LSU.
Right now someone at Fox Sports has just shat himself. Probably repeatedly. Ratings-wise, things were looking pretty bleak already. But now they’re going to have to try and hype a “Championship” featuring also-rans.
As the post title says, “it’s only fitting”. That the wackiest of college football seasons would end with the wackiest championship game ever played. I’m going to go ahead and predict LSU 10 Ohio State 9.
More on Tuesday after this all shakes out.
