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The Wrong Teams Are Playing for the National Championship...Again

 
Well, here we go again.  Another year of college football madness, and another year settled by the BCS system.  Ah...the BCS system!  Every year college football gets more complicated at the end of the season, and every year the BCS continues to show us more and more of its flaws. Last year, if you remember, Ohio State was the only one-loss team left in the major conferences.  There were a number of deserving two-loss teams that could have gone to the National Championship, including Kansas, Georgia, USC, and LSU.  We all know that Ohio State and LSU got in, but who really should have gotten in? Let's see what happened.  Georgia demolished Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl and were ranked No. 4 before the BCS selections were made.  USC obliterated Illinois in the Rose Bowl.  Kansas beat a very good Virginia Tech team.  LSU beat overrated Ohio State by two touchdowns and were ranked No. 7 before the BCS selections came out. USC and Georgia were the two most ... (link)

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