dapolla wrote: kentdaddy, even though OSU has only beaten OU 17 times in history, I don't think the Sooners can punk the Pokes yet again this year. OSU is playing for the national title; just don't know against whom yet.
Oregon.
I thought of something really lame though. Imagine if the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State winner somehow loses the Big 12 championship game and we beat LSU for the SEC title.
In that situation, Alabama would probably play in the NC game without even winning their own division. They would essentially be rewarded for NOT making it to the SEC championship game.
Now that all the major leagues have conference championship games, that should be a formal, codefied rule: the two teams that participate in the BCS National Championship game must have won their respective conference championship games.