If you were to ask me, I would tell you that the Texas Longhorns are the Big 12 South Champs without a doubt, no questions asked, thank you very much. I would also tell you that Texas are the national champions, Colt McCoy is the Heisman and the Oklahoma Sooners football team should be disbanded.

All burnt-orange-bias aside, Oklahoma leap-frogged Texas in the Bowl Championship Series standings Sunday afternoon and took the Big 12 South by default, or coin flip, or some fancy computer system or however they want to try and explain it.

I’m going to leave Texas Tech out of this discussion to save you from further confusion, but the Red Raiders do have a legitimate argument. For now, this is only for those crazy fans who chant either “Hook ‘em Horns” or “Boomer Sooner.”

Texas beat Oklahoma 45-35. Nothing more to it, no OK state, no BCS catastrophe, not even running up the score for style points. You beat a team, you have the same record, and you win. I guess we should know better though. I understand what happened, the BCS loves style points, and they love the hot team at the end of the season, that’s Oklahoma.

Blame falls on the Big 12 for not protecting its teams from the Big Bad BCS. This is sad because the conference has been nothing short of outstanding this year. In the South Eastern Conference, if there is a three way tie at the top, and two of the teams are separated by less than five spots in the BCS standings (Oklahoma No. 2, Texas No. 3), the head-to-head match-up decides the champion.

Makes sense, if the teams are ranked that closely, Oklahoma .935, Texas .922, in the BCS, then whoever won the head-to-head is the better team right? Wrong. We are not dealing in things that make sense, just the BCS.

The BCS: the only national administration that has received more criticism than George W. Bush’s. Every year, one fateful Sunday in late November or early December, the BCS rears its ugly head and leaves a path of destruction through college football.

This year, everyone saw the BCS hurricane coming but as usual could only run and hide. After “Bedlam” Saturday night when Oklahoma beat the 12th ranked Cowboys of Oklahoma State by twenty points, bedlam was waiting in Austin.

In a situation that is becoming as much of an American tradition as Thanksgiving, the BCS left someone on the outside looking in. I could mention a playoff system to replace the BCS, but talk like that seems so farfetched I’ll leave that one up to Obama.

Any coach’s nightmare; do everything right, but because of the BCS and its reign of terror, get screwed. This year it’s Mack Brown who won’t be sleeping much until next year.

Mack Brown will be haunted by nightmares of the BCS. Nightmares of a terrible place where children work in sweat shops, it rains every day, and good football teams’ hopes are crushed on a daily basis.

Sounds like a real terrible place doesn’t it? Just thinking about a world like that, along with the current BCS debacle, makes me want to cry.

Tom Hanks said there’s no cryin’ in baseball, but this is college football, and I think this deserves more than a few tears, because no matter what I say, what Tom Hanks says or what anybody says, Oklahoma is going to the Big 12 championship. Barring a small miracle from Missouri on Saturday, probably the national championship too.

Maybe Colt McCoy will win the Heisman trophy and help the Longhorn faithful sleep at night. But, I won’t get my hopes up because in this story, good guys really do finish last, and the bad guys are wearing maroon jerseys.

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