Congrats to the University of Cincinnati’s Football Team ….
…. on its perfect regular season.
What an incredible game.
UPDATE, Dec. 6: Dang (Texas 13, Nebrasksa 12).
The BCS’s mucked-up system is really, really, reeeeeeeally lucky that Texas won, because I suspect that it would still have rated Texas #2 if the ‘Horns hadn’t made that 46-yard field goal as time expired against a 9-3 team ranked #22 in what was practically a home game (UC, on the other hand, beat the #15 team on the road). That would have pitted an undefeated team against one with a loss, while shutting out three undefeateds (UC, TCU, and Boise St.). As it is, Texas belongs in the championship game — but by only by the length of a longhorn’s nose.
The idea of keeping undefeated teams out of a national championship game while letting a team with a loss in because of its allegedly tougher schedule would have been absurd and outrageous. Which one of the three other undefeateds would have most deserved a title berth if Texas had lost would have been a furious debate, but one worth having.
For those who think that being in a big, bad, oh-so-powerful conference should be an automatically trumping consideration, even if the team involved has lost, I have two responses:
- January 2, 2009 — Utah 31, Alabama 17
- January 1, 2007 — Boise State 43, Oklahoma 42
