Your unproven assumption does not refer to what you refer to next. This is what you said:
If this were true (as you allege), then the rules would say, "Must be conference champion," which they decidedly do not.
Look, were we the better team? Sure.
But please tell me how you justify taking Alabama over Oklahoma State? How can you possibly say it would have been some sort of injustice if OSU had gone? They had the same record, they won the conference title and - most importantly - they played a tougher schedule than we did.
The flip argument is simple - they lost to Iowa State. A bowl team. On the road. So to call it "correct" is certainly the fans opinion but doesn't actually make it correct. Make no mistake - had we lost to LSU, there would have been no end of screaming about the injustice.
My goodness, this is nothing but a martyr complex.
I'll tell you what we DO have now we did NOT have before: if we go unbeaten, we will:
a) be conference champions
b) be in the playoff
c) be the national champions
And if we lose.....well, we are no more deserving of "a second chance" than anyone else. What this ensures is that 1966 will never happen again. Make no mistake: I don't like the panel idea, but it's not really any worse than any other poll. I'm with TM09 - just use the top four in the BCS. Nobody ever complained about that. Well, okay, they did in 2009.
