BCS Thoughts

Diane,
Alabama vs Texas in the Championship. I was rooting for TCU to make it into the Championship game, but it wasn't going to happen, even though they were better than Texas, in my opinion. It wasn't because they weren't one of the two best teams in the country, it was because you couldn't make a definitive argument that they were THE BEST team in the country.
TCU plays in a non-BCS conference and their competition isn't as tough as other conferences. For TCU to have played for the National Title, they would have had to have been considered a better than 50/50 shot to win. Why? Because while those making the matchups can stomach a blowout between teams from the SEC and Big 12, there's no way they will chance the second guessing that would take place if TCU got blown out and a BCS conference school finished the season undefeated, but didn't play for the national title. Evidenced by voters letting Cincinnati leapfrog TCU into 3rd in the BCS standings as a "just-in-case".
Until they play a tougher pre-season sechedule, no non-BCS school will crack the Championship. Sad, but true.