The Deserving National Champs

  Most of the time, the argument is over which team’s loss was a “better loss”, or which team had a tougher schedule.  Every single year, some school feels wronged.  This year was no different.

There was a team that was the rightful national champions.  This team beat 6 bowl teams.  They beat 4 ranked teams.  They beat a top 5 team from the deep south in New Orleans.  They are the Utah Utes.

You are probably thinking at this point that I’m a bandwagon jumper.  To set you straight, I don’t like the Utes, mostly because I happen to be an Alabama fan.  Utah beat everyone they played.  Sure, you say, they played an easier schedule.  But who can argue with six bowl teams and four ranked teams?

Now, no one is arguing that Florida, Oklahoma, even Texas and USC didn’t have great seasons.  But they all lost to somebody.  Florida lost to a then-unranked Ole Miss team.  Oklahoma lost to Texas, sure, but somehow still won the Big 12 South.  Texas was of course beaten by Texas Tech, and who can forget that Thursday night in Corvalis when Oregon State handled mighty USC? 

Utah should be the outright champs.  They barely missed out on a share, coming in at #2 in the last AP poll.  The “National Championship” should be decided between all 119 Division I schools, not the 66 BCS schools.  If given the chance to play for the title, Utah would be the unquestioned national champion.  Next year, shouldn’t we give the undefeated the chance to prove how good they really are?

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