Does Georgia Deserve a National Championship Invite?
Bulldog Nation up in arms about National Championship snub.
The talk around the SEC is the apparent snub of Georgia for the National Championship. Mark Richt let his feelings known about it, saying that regardless of what the rules are, his team deserves to play in the National Championship.
The debate essentially boils down to whether or not a team that has not won it’s conference deserves to be considered for the National Championship.
Trust me, I’m a big Georgia fan. If the National Championship was about picking two of the best teams in football at the beginning of December, I would say Georgia would play USC (Southern California) for the National Championship. Georgia has played about as good as anyone in the country the past month beating Florida, Kentucky and Auburn. USC after losing a couple of games early to Stanford and Oregon, has been simply unstoppable since becoming completely healthy.
I like LSU, and Ohio St. are both good teams. But they are not the best 2 teams in college football right now. They are the two teams that have emerged based on the BCS unwritten rules. What does that mean? That means that since the wild weekend saw #1 Missouri and #2 West Virginia lose. Now since #3 is Ohio St., they get bumped up. But what of #4 Georgia? Well, since they lost the tie-breaker to Tennessee by virtue of their loss to Tennessee earlier in the year, they lose the SEC East. #5 LSU beat Tennessee and therefore LSU jumps over #4 Georgia to go the National Championship. According to the BCS unwritten rules, this is fair because LSU are the SEC champions, Georgia are not.
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