GW in Ohio The BCS got it right ... LSU's only two losses were in triple overtime, to two teams (Kentucky, Arkansas) that played superlative football.

They have to have been playing superlative football, because they beat one of the best teams in the country, and we know they were one of the best teams in the country because the only two teams that beat them were playing superlative football, which we know because it was good enough to beat one of the best teams in the country, and we know they were one of the best teams in the country because ...

Nadia Comenici used to be my favorite gymnast. Now it's LSU fans explaining the two losses. "But they were in triple overtime! That's like a win!"

The consensus among the college football cognoscenti is that the two best teams in the country are playing in the BCS Biggie.

Well, they must know. Two days ago the consensus among the college football cognoscenti was that Missouri and West Virginia were the two best teams in the country. The consensus among the college football cognoscenti, at one time or another in the last three months, has also been that the two best teams in the country were: USC-LSU, LSU-Cal, Ohio State-South Florida, Ohio State-Boston College, Ohio State-LSU, LSU-Oregon and LSU-Kansas.

But now! Now they've got it!

The Rainbows will get the chance to show what they're made of when they play Georgia.

And they may be made of hot air. They might suck.

I'm not arguing that Hawaii should be in the championship game. And I think it's perfectly reasonable to say that Ohio State and LSU are the two best teams in the country. But I don't know who should be in the championship game. THAT IS WHAT PLAYOFFS ARE FOR!!!!!ELEVEN!!!1111!.

What I'm saying about Hawaii is that what happened to them this year is a great illustration of how screwed up and random and unfair the system is.

Teams rocketed from unranked to No. 1 or 2 this year by winning five or six games. Hawaii won 12 straight and went from 24 to 10. That's not explained by strength of opponent. If you think it is, I give you Kansas. And the strength of opponent argument falls down because Hawaii's biggest jump of the year came after they beat New Mexico State.

Mr_Humidty Here's the core of the rationale for the defenders of the BCS, the pair in the BCS "championship" game, and/or the status quo: They're completely certain that, in certain match-ups, they know who would and would not win (ie, Hawaii). They choose to ignore things like, say, that in sports teams actually defy expectations. Indeed, that is the entire point of playing sports.

Right! And that's the lesson of this season! It's completely bogus to say, "Come on, so-and-so obviously wouldn't beat so-and-so." To declare two teams the best. This is the year of App State over Michigan at the start and Pitt over West Virginia at the end and all manner of upsets in between. What better object lesson is needed to show that declaring the best teams by fiat is inane?

JoeMc1 in the past I've seen you blast traditional powerhouse teams for scheduling "cupcakes". Yet here you are today, lamenting Hawaii's exclusion from the title game, when essentially their schedule was about as "cupcake" as it gets. That is SO inconsistent of you.

It's a different issue. Smaller-conference schools that are any good can't get the big schools to play them, for the most part.