The BCS has been controversial since its inception in 1998, and every year people say that this year is the worst. This year, however, is by far the worst and the controversy doesn't really directly involve the BCS. The issue at hand is the handling of the Big 12 championship.
This season is the first in my limited years, that I have seen such an obviously deserving team left hanging. Oklahoma is a talented team, that cannot be argued but are they better than the team that beat them on a neutral field when they were the Number 1 team? Oklahoma's whooping of Texas Tech can't be overlooked, but is beating up on a perennially so-so team having an amazing year as impressive as beating your hated rival in the biggest game of both school's seasons? Texas' defeat of Oklahoma should have ended the discussion right then and there, because the winner of the Red River Shootout(Rivalry, sorry) is always the best team in the Big 12. The debate over which team is more deserving of the championship berth is basically pointless because the issue is not which team deserves the chance to beat Mizzou, rather it is about why the Big 12 has such a stupid tiebreaker policy.
