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The problem folks is not with the BCS. The problem is with the human polls which rely on two factors in determining who the best teams are: "what have you done for me lately?" and "where did you start out the season?".
The teams that play for the National Championship season should have had the best season overall. Losing late in the season has an inordinate impact on the final standings compared to losing early. Had OU gotten slapped by K-state like they did in week 6 instead of week 14, no one would have batted an eye when they got in b/c they were so dominant the rest of that year. Yes there would have been some controversy, but everyone by the end would have been pretty sure that OU, even with the loss was better than USC. To say otherwise is to ignore the facts. The way that OU played that year was similar to the way in which USC and UT have played this year, only more dominant. There was very frank and deserved discussion about that OU team being the greatest team ever (unlike the talk of USC this year which is not deserved...there I said it).
The other issue like I said is "where did you start out the season." Both USC and Auburn in their respective "snub" years were overachievers who didn't start out the season ranked in the top 10. If there is no preseason ranking then no one is set in stone at the beginning and we can begin to see who are the best teams without being concerned about their rankings for the first month of the season.
And Reggie Bush will win the Heisman b/c he really is the best player in the country. Which means that my friend who was a High School Heisman winner in 2001, and has last year's SI cover of Reggie flipping into the endzone against UCLA signed by both Leinart and Bush, has the ultimat Heisman souvenier...even though he hates football and doesn't even really know much about it. Nevermind that he gets free trips each and every year to the Heisman ceremony as it is...
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