re: 9 months later...how ridiculous was the BCS NC selection?

It's definitely worth taking a look back, and it's clear that it was a true sham.

At the time I was excited because I was tired of hearing how Bama should have won the first game and was looking forward to it as a fan.

But for the players on that amazing team, it truly was an injustice.

All the talking heads always pushing a playoff so that "it can be settled on the field" basically threw out what happened on 11/5 because they didn't want to admit that they were wrong about which team would win.

ESPN and SI made it seem like a forgone conclusion all week that Bama would be #2, meanwhile OSU is clobbering OU while Bama is sitting at home the weekend of the SECCG, and OSU ends up #3 by the smallest margin in BCS history.

I don't disagree that Bama was better than OSU and probably would have beaten them, but the BCS is designed to pick two teams to decide who the best is. LSU and Bama had already played and decided who was the better team that day. OSU as Big 12 champ had a better resume BY FAR and deserved a shot to share the stage against the best conference champ and take a shot.

All of CFB was cheated out of a chance to see the SEC Champ try to win a 6th straight against the best of the other BCS conferences.

ESPN pushed the idiotic storyline of the SEC's 5 straight titles as though they were all blowout wins and no other conference could compete. The games got closer since the first in 06, a true blowout, and 07, a very convincing win, with a very close game in 08, and closer game than the score indicated in 09 after UT's starting Heisman candidate QB went down in the first quarter, and a straight up nailbiter the year before in 2010.

The only reason the SEC streak was so impressive was because we beat THE BEST THE OTHER CONFERENCES HAD TO OFFER.

The title last year adds NOTHING to the SEC streak IMO, other than the fact that LSU, not Bama, beat the SEC and Big East Champ.

And it was the lowest rated BCSCG ever, so ESPN got what is deserved. It was a stupid idea that a rematch would get the same ratings as the 11/5 clash, and I'm glad they suffered financially for it.

Seeing how badly Bama beat our undermanned O made our victory on 11/5 even more impressive. We had no business winning that first game with our O against that D, and the fact that we found a way to get out of BDS with a win in the Game of the Century is one the most impressive accomplishments that I've ever seen and should be the lasting legacy of that amazing 2011 team IMO.