re: Would you rather be in a "better" bowl against a worse team?

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I really don't buy this argument which has been made over and over again.

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If you followed the bowl selection process, you'll know that the Capital One Bowl had already made its choice in A&M. The Cotton was choosing LSU. But the SEC stepped in to protect Georgia from falling to Atlanta. The dominoes fell and LSU fell to Chick Fil A.

Bowls select the team it wants. But the SEC stepped in this year for no good reason.

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AM was the obvious pick for the Cotton. Heisman trophy winner, hottest team which beat Bama and has looked impressive since, former Big 12 team coming back to play Big 12 powerhouse in the heart of the Big 12.

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I disagree with this, but in a big-picture way that indicts the whole bullshyte bowl process.

To me, it's shitty that it's a beauty contest. It should be picked in a similar way to an NCAA playoff -- based on a dispassionate analysis of a team's body of work, not on the marketability for a specific bowl game.

LSU was the best of the 2-loss SEC teams. The rankings reflect it, the 2-0 record vs. the other 2-loss teams reflects it. Given that, by any dispassionate analysis, LSU should have been the best of the two-loss teams, meaning the No. 3 team in the SEC behind Alabama and Florida.

That means they should not have slipped behind the Capital One/Cotton. No way...

EXCEPT when you look at the shitty way bowl matchups are selected. Then it makes, uhm, sense. But only within that shitty context.