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UGA should have played LSU.
Theres no justice.

:-)

LSU- 326 total yards
OSU- 353 total yards

LSU- 4 1st downs by penalty
OSU- 1

LSU- 4 Penalty's 36 yards
OSU- 7 for 89 yards

Both teams punted 3 times

LSU- 1 Turnover
OSU- 3 Turnovers

Seems to me that it WAS close, and OSU just beat themselves.

Tell us how you really feel..;)

#1BSschwartz, keep telling that to yourself, since the rest of us really know what happened.

Ohio State should have been there. It's not their fault that the Big Ten remains to be a conference of Ohio State, Michigan, and everybody else.

This happens every freakin year. I vote for a playoff system. Who is with me?

Schwartz

31 UNANSWERED POINTS. That's the statistic that made the game essentially a blowout. The game was in control and Ohio State made some desparation plays.

...And I do know how to spell desperation. Sorry!

playoff

I think a playoff scenario makes the most sense, something like the NFL where the top two teams get a bye. Parity in the NCAAs will continue to produce regular season upsets and so the likelihood of one or two clear cut top teams will become less and less likely. Moreover, the pollsters and computers put too much stock in the wins/losses category. Let's go to a 6 team playoff with the #1 and #2 teams being given bye weeks - AND - add in a site clause that allows the BCS championship game to be moved with 1 months notice to prevent a 'virtual home game' situation (USC in the Rose Bowl, yeah - I know they lost (snicker snicker) or LSU in the Dome). Even with this modest playoff you're still going to have teams #7 and #8 arguing that they're as good as #5 and #6 and maybe better than #4. But it's a start. Oh yes, one more absolutely essential clause - ONLY CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS (or co-champions) ELIGIBLE FOR BCS. TIme to join a conference Nutty Dame and start playing a legitimate schedule - no more 3 sure wins against the service academies (God Bless NAVY but it was the first win in 38 YEARS!!!) plus a few teams like Eastern Polytechnic School for the Blind - get ND outta BCS consideration and bowl $.

8 Team playoff... Why wouldn't schools want that... More$$$$!

Besides there is a whole month between the end of the reg season and the BS bowls!

Great pictures... Mr Pete

Ohio State should have been there. It's not their fault that the Big Ten remains to be a conference of Ohio State, Michigan, and everybody else.

J. HOVA: A.K.A. EJ FROM B.K. | 01/10/08

It is Ohio State, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Wisconsin has a football team?
kidding!

Yup, playoff. 8 teams, minimum (or maximum, if you're the University of Georgia president). 6 BCS conference champs, 2 at-large teams (by highest BCS "pre-bowl season" ranking, with rules for Notre Dame or mid-major champions to get a spot if they finish high enough). The four BCS bowls provide the four quarterfinal sites.

The Pac 10 and Big 11 champions meet in the Rose Bowl quarterfinal (doesn't affect their shiny new ABC contract); The SEC champion plays in the Sugar Bowl, the ACC champion in the Orange Bowl, and the Big 12 champion in the Fiesta Bowl (per current non-title game arrangement). The two at-large teams and the Big East champion get picked the way they do now, except by three bowls instead of four. Ideally these four games would all be on Jan. 1.

This part of the system preserves as much of the bowl tradition as possible (the rest of the bowls can still function as normal, provided they realize they are not part of the 8-team playoff and do not schedule their games at the same time as any playoff games).

The Football Final Four would be at a fifth site, similar to the basketball Final Four. Domed stadium optional, but recommended. The only sticking point is working the semifinals and final into a short span of time, as Jan. 15 may be too late for the final.

This year, the quarterfinal matchups would have been:

USC (Pac 10 champ) vs. Ohio State (Big 11 champ), Rose Bowl
(the Rose Bowl would have a set matchup each year, the other 3 rotate top pick)

LSU (SEC champ) vs. Georgia (highest BCS at-large), Sugar Bowl
(this is assuming Sugar Bowl gets first pick to fill the "open slot")

Oklahoma (Big 12 champ) vs. West Virginia (Big East champ), Fiesta Bowl
(this is assuming Fiesta Bowl gets second pick)

Virginia Tech (ACC champ) vs. Hawaii (mid-major champ), Orange Bowl
(this is assuming the BCS rules for mid-majors would remain the same)

"Final Four" site at who-knows-where (let's say the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis for the heck of it) on the 8th and 15th. If one of the finalists has a semester start by then, the 14th and 15th become "special study days", the same way a certain week or two in March becomes special, even if it isn't spring break.

P.S. Missouri still gets screwed by this, but due to Hawaii being ranked high enough, not by the Orange Bowl picking Kansas. Kansas and Illinois would also be left out of the 8-team playoff.

one word Play-Off, Oh, sorry thats two words..........