BCS Selection Show to Offer No Suspense

The college football regular season was par for the controversy course this season. However, all the actual suspense for college football's BCS lineup actually ended last week. When Oklahoma was vaulted ahead of Texas last week, the results became obvious and predictable. Now that form has held in the Big 12 and SEC championship games, the BCS Selection Show tonight becomes pretty anticlimactic.

Though controversy will still reign on what happened between Oklahoma and Texas last week, there will be no disputes on what the BCS Selection Show will choose. For the BCS National Championship Game, it is now clear that the selection show on FOX will name Oklahoma and Florida as the two participants.

Oklahoma did what everyone expected and destroyed Missouri, 62-21, in a game that proved why the Big 12, and all of college football, should destroy their two division formats and just let the two best teams in a conference play each other. Then Oklahoma and Texas would have met last night and there would be no complaining about last week's rankings.

The SEC had no such controversy, as their two best teams were actually allowed to play each other. Florida came from behind in the fourth quarter to beat Alabama, 31-20, behind possible two-time Heisman winner Tim Tebow.

Ever since Oklahoma got ahead of Texas, most people thought Florida and Oklahoma would eventually play in the BCS title game. Now the BCS selection show will be able to confirm that theory.

The likely Florida and Oklahoma title game will have to undergo a month of hype, and a month of pundits predicting Arena Football like scoring, before being held in Miami on January 8.

The rest of the BCS selections have no suspense either. Pundits have already figured out what the BCS Selection Show will announce for the other BCS pairings.

The Orange Bowl is expected to have Virginia Tech vs Cincinnati, in what may be one of the most widely ignored BCS games ever.

While Florida plays for the title, Alabama will take a Sugar Bowl berth as a consolation prize, where they will likely face unbeaten Utah. Last year's Sugar Bowl also pit an SEC team against an unbeaten mid-major, where Georgia slaughtered Hawaii.

The Rose Bowl will have its traditional Big 10-Pac 10 match up, between storied programs USC and Penn State. Both teams had national championship hopes that were crushed with just one loss.

Texas will have to settle for the Fiesta Bowl, likely against BCS pariah Ohio State. The Buckeyes get to avoid an SEC team in the BCS, to their great relief, while Texas might still have an outside shot to win the national title in the AP poll.

The BCS Selection Show will likely make all these match ups official tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on FOX.

Sources

The Columbus Dispatch- "It's Oklahoma vs. Florida" www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2008/12/07/fbc_bcs_1207.ART_ART_12-07-08_C1_HNC5AID.html

Tampa Bay Online- "Could Texas Still Be A No.1?" www2.tbo.com/content/2008/dec/07/cb-could-texas-still-be-a-no-1/