LSU, Oklahoma State, Alabama, and Stanford.
Only one team lost a game last week that I didn't call for them to and ends up eliminated at the finish line from the Shortlist to the Superdome in 2011:
1) Houston watches their defense disintigrate before their eyes and can't keep pace with Southern Miss in the CUSA title game as they fall 49-28. For Case Keenum, the record books may belong to him for all to see, but his one that got away will always be one of the biggest true life whopper tales of all time in a devastating slice of poetic justice. It took him six years to secure his place in college football history but ultimately, he ends up with no storybook ending and the coach who signed him to his letter of intent might have coached another player to the Heisman ahead of him as well. It probably is still better than having your career end due to a knee injury sustained while attempting to tackle a UCLA player who picked you off and was running for a touchdown.
Once again, the Shortlist and the BCS just don't see eye to eye for yet another year in a row, with the added irony thrown in this time that apparently the coach of the overrated championship game participant doesn't even agree with the results based on his comments made while coaching his re-matched opponent in New Orleans as well.
Reading that logical fallacy of a case only makes even less sense than ever of the motivation for why the voters scheduled the very first BCS championship replay in history. In doing so, the entire system has made a very rich, powerful enemy in energy tycoon and Stillwater Cowboy bank-roller T. Boone Pickens, perhaps a mistake that could prove fatal to the current configuration of providing a championship caliber game utilizing the bowl system, polls and a scoring margin of victory blinded set of computers currently employed to close the system off to only the better half of the SEC in this given year.
Hey, at least a third of the SEC West will find the game exciting though, that ought to keep two of the more cantankerous states calm through the holidays and out of the Occupy movement, right?
Copyright 2011 by Christopher Whelpton for Canespace.com