Sorry, Texas Tech.

I really put the kaibosh on you by assuming you would hold up your end of the bargain to fulfill my dream BCS matchup. My fault. I was so focused on the extremely slim possibility of Boise State making it to a national championship game, that I simply didn’t notice when I jinxed you in my lost column. Since no other explanation can account for your incredibly poor performance at Oklahoma the Saturday before last, I think you can safely blame me. Or your defense. Either one.

In either case, Texas Tech losing has made the BCS universe an absolute hell. And I don’t think that just because Notre Dame managed just one more first down then turnover last week at USC. There are now two teams in the Big 12 South, Texas and Oklahoma, who can legitimately make the case that they should be No. 2 in the nation, right behind big ‘ole Alabama. Problem is, only one of them can have it. And instead of letting them duke it out in a national semifinal for the right to play Florida in the National Championship (who will almost certainly beat Alabama, in my opinion), we have to let some stupid poll decide who gets to play.

Of course, the real kicker is… they already played each other! Texas won 45-35 back on October 11th, when Oklahoma was understood to be the best team in the land. Three weeks later, after playing the brutal gauntlet of Oklahoma, Missouri, and Oklahoma State, Texas lost, at Lubbock, to Texas Tech, on a last second touchdown to Michael Crabtree.

Two weeks after that, thanks to me, Oklahoma beat Texas Tech, at home, in an absolute romp. And now we have a problem. As long as there is no playoff system, there is an injustice here. Oklahoma killed Tech, which beat Texas. But Texas beat Oklahoma. Ugh.

So what do we do now?

How about letting them play again?! Why are we letting tiny margins in human polls and some small computer input decide this thing when there are like 2 years off between the final game of the season and the championship game?! It’s completely irrational. Never mind the little guys like Boise State and the Utah who get completely screwed by all of this. Let them all in to a small playoff system– one that still preserves the high pressure, must win nature of the college football– and eliminate this crazy randomness!

C’mon Obama… if we can’t solve the economic crisis, how ’bout a crisis that does have a clear solution!