Saturday Upsets Sink BCS Teams

I'm out of town doing some reporting this weekend and only sporadically get Internet access, so this will likely be the only post until I get back on Tuesday, but I'll have some good stuff when I return.

Saturday was defined by underdogs leaving their mark on the BCS landscape. For those that think the existing BCS system is about as dumb as a submarine with a screen door, Saturdays like yesterday are beautiful. This week, USC, Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin and Wake Forest all went down. That likely means that Oklahoma and LSU are likely the ones driving that screen-door submarine to the BCS Title game right now.

Of course, LSU will still have to survive its rugged schedule in the SEC. And edging Mississippi State at home by only 10 points on Saturday wasn't a very convincing statement that the Tigers can do it.

I am desperately hoping that by the end of the season all of the top SEC teams have two intra-conference losses, making it extremely difficult to put one of them into the title game over a one-loss or undefeated team from the Pac-Ten, Big Ten, Big 12, Big East or Mountain West. Of course, the BCS will have to because the SEC is hands down the best conference in the country.

If the SEC gets snubbed you can bet its teams will start to think about leaving the BCS. On the other hand, any undefeated team will have every right to be upset at being overlooked. That's going to be one heck of a headache for those that run the bowl system. It's also one that is easily solved by a bracket.

Chaos, don't you love it!