Pregame: Championship Week, Pt 2

Jumping right into Big 12 Play...


Big 12:


Kansas State can technically still snag a piece of the pie with an OkSt loss, but let's be honest.  As far as the BCS is concerned, this is a two-pony show.  That's probably a good thing too, because as good of a story as Bill Snyder's camp is this year, I'm not sure they're gonna hold up against the big boys.  They barely beat a top 30 Texas team, and allowed 50 points to both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

Anyway, the winner of Bedlam this weekend goes to a BCS bowl.  There's an outside chance that both teams go, assuming the Sooners win.  Otherwise, there's not a whole lot of discussion required here.  Both teams have great skill players on offense, and he quarterback dual will be quite a treat.  But I like Weeden and JB to defend home turf.  Even in the preseason, I wasn't buying into Oklahoma as the best team in the Big 12.  I picked OSU to win the conference outright, and I'm sticking by that preseason pick.

Prediction: Oklahoma makes it interesting, but the pokes go to a BCS game.  The real question is, how impressively do they have to win to jump Alabama in the polls?  Oklahoma State 41, Oklahoma 31


Pac-12:

Tonight is the Pac-12 championship game between fringe national title contender Oregon and 6-6 UCLA.  The Bruins sit in this title game not really out of personal merit, but because they are the least awfullest team in the Pac-12 south that is actually elligible to play in the title game.  That's right- they're so bad that I actually had to invent the word awfullest just to fully describe the situation.  It's that bad.


Prediction: Reggie Bush apologizes for tonight's inevitable blowout.  Oregon 55, UCLA 20


SEC:

So, here we are.  The elephant in the room.  Undefeated LSU takes on Boise State's most recent overrated victim, Georgia.  I've been on ESPN all week listening to how good Georgia has been playing recently, and how they're really gonna hang with LSU.  The Tigers will prevail of course, because no one wants to upset the established order, but at least it will be a good game...

Prediction: Well I'm sorry, but that's a load of crap.  Georgia is playing well?  Because they hung 62 on New Mexico State?  Color me unimpressed.  Barely scraping out wins against the likes of Kentucky, Florida, Vanderbilt, and a very injured Tennessee team does not mean you've caught fire.  LSU is gonna do to Mark Reicht's team what Cam Newton did to South Carolina in last year's SEC title game.  Remember that one?  It wasn't pretty.  LSU 42, Georgia 13.


Still...  let's play the imagination game for a second.  What happens if Georgia wins?  There's a brain teaser for you.  In my mind, LSU would remain the #1 team (after all, they'd just be another one loss team with a better resume than everyone else), though in the fickle minds of poll voters, I'm not so sure they wouldn't lose a step to a couple of other top teams.  Georgia suddenly has to go to a BCS game, but you can't hold LSU back from an at large bid after dominating the whole regular season.  Does Alabama get left out in the cold?  It's pretty much a done deal that Houston is going to go to the BCS, but what do you do about Boise State, who has now beaten the SEC champion?

Scenarios abound.  I look forward to delving into them all with you later this weekend.