re: LSU featured on college football live on ESPN

Exactly, and that was well known, that OK State could usurp Bama with enough voters giving OK State a proper final ranking. So the push back for OK State was enacted to protect Bama's position--which appears to be an act of collusion by a sub-collection of voters, as you alluded to. And it was close and tight even then, and the BCS computers which don't reveal their algorithms did not respond as well as it seemed they should for OK State--otherwise they still might have gotten in.

But ESPN certainly drove an agenda, and politicked like real politicians do and they weren't simply bystandards, and that's a shame. Obviously enough voters were convinced that they needed to do whatever they had to do to preserve Bama's position.

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