It shouldn’t be based solely on resume though. We are obviously a better team than Utah and Texas Tech, maybe better than Texas and Oklahoma. Alabama is the only team I can see that can say that they are better than us at this point.

However, the problem is that that is only the case for the top 10 or so teams in the last month of the season. All of the teams with 2 losses already know they are eliminated. That’s not that exciting. Basically, they are playing for a consolation game, and they want to be in a good consolation game. But really, none of the bowls matter except for the NC game. Unless you’re counting dollar bills. There needs to be a 4 team playoff. That maintains the excitement of the regular season, because you probably still need to have only one loss to get in, but it puts 2 more teams who could win it all (anything can happen in 2 games) into the mix, 2 teams which probably deserve it just as much as the top 2. This year, for example, a one-loss USC team or one-loss Alabama or one-loss Texas or one-loss Texas Tech team could all beat two opponents in a 4 game playoff and win it all. It gives more teams hope and more reason to watch late in the season.

The BCS NC game sucks because it takes the thrill out of watching games for the other 110 teams. Many of which after week 2-3.

The BCS has not selected an SEC team. The pollsters did. With Florida and Michigan, and LSU and the world, the pollsters believed the SEC winner was more qualified than Michigan (who had their shot at OSU) and LSU was better than Oklahoma (Big 12) and USC (Pac-10 co-champ). Had the pollsters not shoved UF and LSU to No. 2, they would not have played for the National Championship.
The BCS was founded on the belief that the computers are better at determining who are the best teams because the computers are not biased. This was based in part of the success of basketball’s RPI. The problem is RPI is one factor of many, not one of three (BCS being computers, Coaches and Harris polls). We saw USC and Auburn get screwed, as well as Nebraska get in after losing their conference title game (which happened in 3 of 4 years). Don’t believe 2 years of no screw ups is a sign of success. All you have to do is look at UF’s computer ranking of 6 and ask yourself if you’ll be happy with beating Alabama and finishing number three behind Oklahoma and Texas.

It just so happens that they think five teams have had better seasons than we have TO THIS POINT. By beating FSU and Bama, we’ll move up to where we deserve to be based on our current level of play. My guess is that we’ll go into the BCS Title game ranked #1 in both human polls and #3 in the computers and I think that’s fair…

Name-calling is the last refuge for those without anything compelling to add to an argument. Besides, I’m a big boy, so I can take it.

I’m happy to play the DA here. I appreciate your arguments against the BCS, as I hope you respect mine in favor. I’m for a playoff IF AND ONLY IF it is sold on the point of being more exciting/fun. No one can convince of the fact that the New York Giants were the best team in pro football last season (did you know that every team they beat in the playoffs had already defeated them in the regular season?) or that the NCAA tourney hasn’t killed college basketball’s regular season (does anyone know Kansas’ regular season record from last year, who they lost to, etc.?).

From http://sports.yahoo.com/top/odds: USC favored by 28.5 over ND.