I would acknowledge Alabama as champion if they beat Oklahoma State in a playoff game.
Because the championship game is between the number 1 and 2 teams at the end of the regular season and Alabama was #2. Simple.
The simple answer is that Oklahoma St. lost to an unranked team, and Alabama only lost by 3 points in overtime to the number 1 team in the nation.
It could have been even more more bizarre than that. After the regular season ended there was a legitimate chance that the BCS Championship game could have matched up two teams (LSU and Alabama) that both came from the same conference, with NEITHER of them winning their own conference championship!
If Georgia had beaten LSU in the SEC title game, the BCS championship probably still would have matched up LSU and Alabama. And Arkansas would have been the odd one out because their only two losses this year came to LSU and Alabama . . . talk about a hard-luck team!
I would acknowledge Alabama as champion if they beat Oklahoma State in a playoff game.
I understand the sentiment, but there's no way you can fault the BCS process just because one conference had two teams that were so dominant. It's even more amazing when you go beyond those two teams and add Arkansas to the mix. With Arkansas finishing the season ranked #5, you not only had three of the top five teams in the nation from the same conference . . . but they were all from the same division (the SEC West). This is why the SEC title game had LSU matched up against Georgia . . . which was ranked somewhere around #14 at the time but was actually ranked behind South Carolina . . . on the strength of SC's win over Georgia early in the season . . . and yet Georgia finished above them in the SEC East on the strength of their better conference record.
And by the way -- Georgia has to be one of the most difficult teams to assess in college football. They finished ranked #19 even with four losses because all four losses came to teams that were ranked very high in the final BCS rankings (Boise State at #8, South Carolina at #9, LSU at #2 and Michigan State at #12).
For anyone who really thinks Oklahoma State deserved to play in the BCS Championship game, I have two words for you: IOWA STATE. C'mon, man -- if they had just beated that 6-7 team this whole controversy would have been avoided!
Among other reasons, the nation's NCAA Division I football coaches from the Big 12, Big 10, Pac 12, ACC, Big East, and similar conferences, who had a vested interest in voting anyone other than an SEC team as #2 in the nation, looked at all of the NCAA Division I football teams and voted Alabama #2. Despite their conference and regional prejudices, they voted Alabama #2.
Despite all of the yelling about ESPN having an unholy alliance with the SEC, the nation's NCAA Division I football coaches thought Alabama was the #2 team.
Despite all of the whining about the BCS, even Pac 12 and Big 10 and Big 12 coaches said: 'd*mn, nobody other than possibly LSU is better than Alabama."
And apparently they were right.
Did you realize that NFL Scouts said that 20 of the 22 starters on defense last night will probably play in the NFL? We probably saw the best NCAA Division I football defense in history last night . . . and I hate Alabama.