Let me go on record as saying that the only BCS title game that makes remote sense is Kansas vs. Ohio State. The simple reason for this is that KU and OSU are the only 1-loss teams from any major conference. In a season that has been incredibly chaotic, it is very difficult to actually compare the relative merits of LSU, Georgia, USC, Kansas, et al. Accordingly, the only halfway-decent measure has to be the number of losses. To select the titleists by any other measure is to undermine one of the key premises of the BCS: that there are six mega-conferences of relatively equal strength.
The argument against KU is probably that they lost to Mizzou, who also only lost one regular season Big 12 game, so how can Kansas get in over Mizzou? Fair point. But that doesn't illustrate KU's ineligibility for the BCS Title so much as it illustrates the idiocy of the whole system. If the KU-Mizzou game had been in early October, nobody would be dwelling on it, and KU would be lining up for #2 today. Or do we all really think that Oklahoma is the best team in the Big 12 - in which case, why do we bother with rankings and polls, anyway?
Buckeyes vs. Jayhawks. It won't happen, but it should.
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