Alabama - Seriously?

Today is the day that many conference championships will be played all across the land of college football, and yet I find myself unable to focus on them at the moment as I think ahead to the BCS National Championship Game.

If you listen to all of the "experts" it appears that it will be current #1 LSU versus current #2 Alabama, no matter what happens in Saturday's games.  This really doesn't make any sense to me at all, and I'll tell you why.

For starters, although LSU is certainly the number one team in the nation at this moment in time, they have yet to actually go undefeated and win the SEC Championship.  They still have one more game to play today, taking on the Georgia Bulldogs who are playing quite well.  If LSU were to lose big, or even lose at all, it seems that their one loss at the end of the season should matter.  After all, other teams have only lost one game, and some did so very early in the season and are now playing quite well.  If everyone is saying that it doesn't matter whether LSU wins or loses, why should they even bother to show up and play in the SEC Championship?  Stay home, rest your players, avoid injuries, and get ready for the BCS National Championship Game.

Moving on to Alabama, all I can say is, really?  Are you telling me that the SEC West is so good that a team that didn't win its own division in conference play or make its conference championship game deserves to be the title game over all of the other teams that have to put it on the line in a conference championship game?  That makes no sense, and basically parallels what I was saying above about LSU staying home - if Alabama is also already in the title game by virtue of not playing, then what is the point of playing so many of these "important games" on Saturday.

Although critics don't seem to agree, I have to say that I think Virginia Tech  deserves a shot. If Virginia Tech beats Clemson on Saturday, it will have avenged its only loss of the season, and may well deserve a shot.  Stanford ended on a high note, but the same argument that applies to Alabama applies here - if they aren't risking anything on Saturday then they should not be rewarded.

Last, but not least, is it me or is Houston the only other undefeated team in the nation?  Where are they in the national title talks?  After all, they have a zero in the loss column also.