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So Texas, which should have played for the Big Twelve title, doesn’t get to play for the BCS title, despite having a better loss than Florida and a better win than Oklahoma, which Texas also beat by ten points. Just one point shy of the eleven that Florida put up on Alabama.

Instead, Texas gets a bowl (the Fiesta) to play 10th-ranked Ohio State. Huh? It would be more logical for Texas to play 4th-ranked Alabama–as in the top two play each other, then the next two and the next two and so on. But that’s not the way corporate college football wants it: no split title, thank you.

Meanwhile, Texas Tech, which rode the No. 1 ranking for weeks, is unfairly excluded from a BCS bowl altogether. And, once again–and I’m happy to see the daily’s Kirk Bohls join me in decrying this–a power team (Oklahoma) is shamelessly rewarded for humiliating an outclassed opponent (Missouri) by running up the score, 62-21. Wherever this game of college football is headed, it doesn’t look good.  

That was the banner flown around last night’s Big Twelve title game before Oklahoma crushed Missouri 62-21. Not only true, but it’s also a claim that the other loser of the three-way tie, Texas Tech, cannot make. Nevertheless, for the honor of the Big Twelve, I hope Bradford & Co. beat the Gators. (Sorry, Diller and nephew.) Fiesta Bowl here we come. Hope it’s against Ohio State.

Two teams Texas beat, Oklahoma and Missouri, will play for the Big Twelve championship, and Zero U goes on to the BCS one in Miami. Blame the BCS computers. I suppose we could also blame the Ags for not being ranked? Yeah, that might work.

MORE:  Our only hope for Miami now, it seems, is for the Okies to lose to Mizzou. Not much hope.