BC-meSs

As a scarlet & gray bleeding Buckeye fan, I've come to terms with the fact that two consecutive losses in National Championship game results in being treated like a Port-a-Jon by the NCAA, BCS Apple IIe and IBM 1981 PC computers, and the ESPN ("Empty Suits Posing as kNowledgable") analysts. However, I am sick to my stomach over still having to read about how certain individuals think that our program is sub-par to the likes of non-BCS teams. Maybe this is what Charlie Weis feels like after eating his 30th cheeseburger.

I have a short OSU counter-point to the stone-throwers of a good 10-2 season:

• Boise State - Did Boise State play ANYONE of Southern Cal's or Penn State's caliber this season? Please, just name one team. Mighty Oregon struggled to beat a below-average Purdue team in overtime.
  
• Utah - see above. They beat a HORRENDOUS Michigan team by two. Nice work. Also needed TCU's kicker to miss not once, but TWICE...
  
• The Ohio State loss was to USC (on their home turf) without Beanie Wells. Not saying the outcome would have changed, but to have a RB to control the clock/possession, would have changed the 'feel'. I'm going for respectability here...
  
• Penn State's vaunted "HD" offense needed a late game fumble by a freshman QB to shift the tides. Just sayin'.
  
• On the topic of "who's playing well at the end of the season", give Ohio State some credit too. Beanie is healthy again, Terrelle Pryor boosted his QB rating to > 150, and the defense is starting to play more inspired football to compliment the aforementioned two-headed monster.

One last thing to note - Ohio State ENDED UP in the 2007 Championship game v. LSU thanks to teams like West Virginia, Missouri, and USC's explicite desires not to go. It's like my senior year HS prom date, everyone else had dates and well, a month prior to the event, no one else had asked her. I just ended up going with her. However, my experience was equivalent to Ohio State's...

On a similar note, the 2006 Championship game v. Florida was like every drunken experience I've had. The first few drinks go down awesome and you feel fantastic, then it all comes to a screeching halt via black-out and the next day you have an 18-hour hangover...

It's already been noted by just about every Longhorn fan on the planet, but how you beat a team head-to-head on a neutral field and end up on the face-down side of a flipped coin is ludicrous. Hello? It is obvious to me that the Big 12 is being run on the same Apple IIe's as the BCS.