So, West Virginia, the team that lost to Pittsburgh, goes out and annihilates Oklahoma, champions of the Big 12. Well good for them: they played hard for their interim coach and redeemed themselves to a certain degree.
On the other hand, Oklahoma had already beaten a highly ranked Missouri team just after the Tigers had beaten the previously undefeated Kansas Jayhawks (who play tonight in the Orange Bowl). What did they have to prove?
Meanwhile, Missouri, bumped from the BCS, blows out their (less than stellar) SEC opponent Arkansas. The Razorbacks, if you'll recall, are one of the TWO teams that beat LSU so their highlight reel was already full.
LSU as we all know are playing in the exhibition game that decides the national championship. This was decided not by the fact that they won a lot of games but because of the losses mentioned above at the end of the season. LSU will play Ohio State who earlier this year lost at home to Illinois and was considered D.O.A. for a top BCS birth.
In case you missed it, Illinois was humiliated by USC in the Rose Bowl.
USC of course thinks they deserve a share of the title but no one should let them forget that they already lost to Stanford, a team that went 4-8 and lost to the Worst. Notre Dame team. Ever. So USC is out.
Among Notre Dame's many losses was a 38-0 drubbing by Michigan who as everyone knows defeated the defending BCS champs Florida on New Year's day. Michigan of course began their season with a home loss to the defending Division I-AA National Champions Appalachian State.
App. State defended their title earlier this month by beating Delaware 49-21 (at the division I-AA level, aka, the "Championsip Division," they don't play exhibition games to decide the championship, they have an actual tournament).
So what's it all mean? Go Mountaineers!
