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So the Oklahoma Sooners moved ahead of Texas in the BCS rankings.
It earns the Sooners a trip to the Big 12 Championship game, where they face an overmatched Missouri team that will be lucky to stay on the field with OU.
The Sooners will stay ahead of Texas, then face the Alabama-Florida winner in the national championship game.
OU has a great team. They may very well beat Florida in the alleged national championship game. They have had a great season.
But the Texas Longhorns should be Big 12 South reps. They should get the chance to murder Missouri (again). They should play for the national title.
By any standard, however, the Longhorns got hosed. UT's only loss was a last-play setback at Texas Tech. Tech's loss was a massacre at Norman.
OU's loss was on a neutral site to Texas.
The Longhorns were the better team that day, plain and simple. Better on defense. Better on offense. Better on special teams. As much as OU fans don't want to hear this, Texas would be a better team if they played again, too. Better coached. Better at the little things. Like, oh, defense.
If we are to argue that OU deserves another chance, then doesn't Texas deserve that chance more? (Tech fans will argue they did as well, but their non-conference schedule and narrow win at home over Texas aren't enough to put them over Texas or OU.
OU has had a great season, and played some tough non-conference foes, too -- at home. Texas had the tougher Big 12 schedule. So that's a wash.
The margin of victory against common opponents is close enough to where that is essentially a wash as well.
So shouldn't the one important issue -- who beat who heads up -- actually count here?
Media hacks with agendas have decided OU is better, even though the issue was settled where it was supposed to be -- on the field.
This is in no way to suggest Oklahoma doesn't deserve all the accolades they get. But they don't deserve to get in at the Longhorns expense.
The BCS and its ridiculous formula has always been a complete farce. It is a joke concocted by fat cats lining their pockets. The morons who defend it say "every week is a playoff" in college football.
Really? Then what about that Saturday in October? If that was a playoff, why is OU still alive?
Sadly, we'll never get a playoff, and because of it, college football's champion will never be a true champion. We are stuck with a stupid formula to determine a bogus championship. OU may very well be this year's fake title holder.
And that's a shame, because Texas deserved the chance to be this year's phony champ.
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