It's official: No. 1 ’Bama vs. No. 2 Texas for BCS title

[jefferson_dem]

It's official: No. 1 ’Bama vs. No. 2 Texas for BCS title
TCU, Cincy, Boise St. also unbeaten, but not in national championship game
The Associated Press

updated 8:12 p.m. ET, Sun., Dec . 6, 2009

Alabama and Texas get to play in a national title game. For TCU, Cincinnati and Boise State, the math doesn’t quite add up but they still get a spot in a BCS bowl.

The quirky, often imperfect method of choosing a national champion succeeded Sunday in matching top-ranked Alabama against No. 2 Texas in the BCS championship — a Jan. 7 game between undefeated teams that will bring together Heisman Trophy hopefuls Colt McCoy of the Longhorns and Mark Ingram of the Crimson Tide.

And, of course, it also produced plenty for the little guys to get upset about.

No. 3 TCU, No. 4 Cincinnati and No. 6 Boise State also finished undefeated. All three were included in the BCS, but none will play for the title, which will renew the annual debate about college football’s way of determining the best team in the land.

“If we were going to talk about fairness, the first thing we’d do is destroy that whole structure,” said Jay Coakley, a sociology professor who authored the textbook, “Sport In Society: Issues and Controversies.” “That’s the least fair thing in all of college sports. It doesn’t even pretend to be fair.”

Seeking its first national title since 1992, Alabama opens as a 3-point favorite for the game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. That’s the place where Vince Young almost singlehandedly led Texas to a victory over Southern California in 2006 to claim the national title.

The other BCS matchups: Oregon against Ohio State in the Rose Bowl; Iowa against Georgia Tech in the Orange; Florida against Cincinnati in the Sugar and TCU against Boise State in the Fiesta.

“We’re here to prove a point,” TCU coach Gary Patterson said after his team’s fate was announced. “I voted for us No. 2 in polls today when we voted. We believe we have a great football team and we’re out to show we could be the No. 1 team in the nation.”

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[RubyDuby in GA]

1. Damn it! It was bad enough to have had to root for Bama over Florida, but now

to have to do it again to beat Texas! AARrrrggghhhhh!!!!!

Georgia better get their crap together for next year because this year it wasn't worth my Saturdays to watch the girls play.