The Big XII Championship Tiebreaker

I have finally come to terms with the Big XII's tiebreakers for the sub-conference champions.

Last year Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma together made for one of of the most exciting conference races in the history of college football, in the history of college sports, in the history of conferences. Three 11-1 teams, all 7-1 in conference play, forming the perfect rock paper scissors dilemma.

So when it was time to decide the Big XII south champion and the team with the inside track to the National Championship game, the Big XII decided to let the BCS decide. This was done to ensure that the team with the best chance to succeed at the national level would get the nod. That was the stated reason for the tiebreaker rule #5, and it actually did make sense.

I have one suggestion though, for a simple and very precise rule to be slided into slot #4: Oklahoma does not get the tiebreaker if Bob Stoops is coaching. This, more than any other single change, will ensure that the Big XII will have success in the BCS and future national championship games.

In 2007 and 2006 Ohio State lost two consecutive National Championship games and became the new Oklahoma, remember Oklahoma lost the National Championship game in 2003 to LSU and in 2004 to USC. Now Oklahoma has snatched the title back thanks to Florida.

Two other BCS game losses to, may we never forget, Boise State and the ass-whooping delivered by West Virginia make five straight BCS losses for Oklahoma. Just as the Notre Dame bowl losing streak comes to an end Oklahoma gives me hope and something to live for.

Texas, by contrast, is 3-0 in BCS games. The choice seems clear, in order to be as successful as the SEC in bowl games, especially the big BCS ones, Oklahoma must be stopped, have their football program dismantled or killed.