I get the argument.  I do.  Texas and Oklahoma have the same record.  Texas beat Oklahoma on a neutral field.  Therefore Texas and not Oklahoma should be going to the Big XII Championship, with a chance to play for the Mythical National Championship.  Assume for a minute that Oklahoma is clearly inferior to Texas, which isn’t true but helps the argument that Texas deserves to play in the Big XII Championship.  Did Texas get screwed?

No.  And if they did, they screwed themselves.

Texas and everyone else in the Big XII agreed to the retarded tiebreaking rules that were set up before the season began, and the Big XII and the other conferences all agreed to the retarded system known as the BCS, which pits two teams against each other for the Mythical National Championship.  This so-called screwjob happens every single year and yet no one does anything substantial to fix it.  The BCS has been tweaked almost every year in its existence to account for some unfortunate and unintended consequence, and every year the Powers That Be claim that the process isn’t perfect, but that they’re fixing it.  Well, how many years have to go by, and how many teams have to raise a gripe, before everyone realizes that it just doesn’t work?

People claim that the system in place makes college football more exciting, because every game is a playoff game, accorded to their misguided notions.  So tell me, hypothetical football guy, in what other playoff system can you beat a team in your only meeting, and have that team advance while you stay at home?  Other than money, there is no legitimate reason anyone why the BCS exists instead of a playoff system.

I have sympathy for Longhorns fans who wanted to see their team in the Big XII Championship, but I have no sympathy at all for Texas.  What you reap is what you sow, and what happened to Texas isn’t a screwjob… it’s just unfortunate.