The computers have spoken and the National Championship is set: one-loss Ohio State vs. two-loss LSU. (Yawn) Surely you have an immediate reaction. It is probably a negative one. We’ll need a few hours to collect our thoughts. Does Hawaii have a right to be pissed? What does Beano Cook think? If Georgia whines, will you care? The other games (you know, the ones that don’t matter): USC vs. Illinois in the Rose Bowl, Oklahoma vs. West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl, Virginia Tech vs. Kansas in the Orange Bowl and Hawaii vs. Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. Missouri was denied a BCS game … even though it beat Kansas head-to-head.

If you only learned one thing during this bizarre college football season, remember this: Don’t play anybody!

Jacksonville 25, Indianapolis 28 - David Garrard was finally intercepted (but it wasn’t Bob Sanders, like we predicted) and the Jags were swept by the Colts. The good Manning had four TD passes and the Colts virtually locked up the AFC South.

San Diego 28, Kansas City 10 - LT helped avenge an embarrassing home loss to the Chiefs by rushing for 177 yards and two scores. KC QB Damon Huard could possibly inherit the nickname ‘Cement Shoes’ from Kurt Warner because he couldn’t move in the pocket and was sacked seven times. Roid Rage Merriman had three.
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What a massive night of letdowns. Missouri choked. And really, it wasn’t even close. The Tigers are not better than Oklahoma. Chase Daniel cannot walk on water and will not win the Heisman. And don’t even get us started on West Virginia. Talk about a joke. How can you be 28-point favorites at home against a team with a losing record, plus get a few phantom calls from the refs and still lose? And let’s not pin this on the Pat White injury. Ok? (But we can all agree that the Pitt RB is damn good.) Yes, USC lost at home to Stanford, and Michigan at home to App State, but this might even be a bigger upset, considering what was at stake. WVU is one big, fat, fraud. Obviously more on this Monday, but we would have no objection whatsoever to some BCS suit taking a hammer to the computer and putting Hawaii in the National Championship.