Thanks, Ears, for saying what needed to be said.

Tommy Tuberville made some comments about the BCS that have many in the sports world talking. I personally agree whole-heartedly with what he said. The BCS is nothing more than a popularity contest, won by flashy offenses. As I said in a previous post, "Defense wins championships, but offense wins votes". As I listened to RivalsRadio on my drive to work this morning, there were several calls dealing with this topic. The host (Bill King, I believe) was saying that with Bama's offense in its current state, this was not one of Alabama's better teams. I contend that our offense is lightyears ahead of the 1992 Bama offense, and our defense is on par with that one, too. Did anyone give that team a chance? NO! Also, look at the 1998 Tennessee National Championship team. Great offense? I think not! This was the post-Peyton Manning era, and Tee Martin was on the borderline between average and terrible.
Another comment Bill King made was that even though Texas plays in a weak conference this year, they are still a great team. HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?!!! You have to prove you are a great team by playing it out on the field, not by blowing out weak opponents. Texas playing an SEC schedule finishes with at least one if not three conference losses (and you can quote that!)
I am sick of these comments about Georgia and Alabama (and for that matter, Auburn of last year) not being "as good" as these "top tier" teams. BULL$#&*! The SEC has many dominant defenses, just look at the stats. The way you rank defenses is by how little offense they allow. Texas might have a good defense, but they have given up more points and yardage against weaker opposition than Alabama and Georgia. It is next to impossible to finish an SEC schedule and have great offensive stats.
Think back one year to what everyone was saying about Auburn, USC and Oklahoma. "Auburn is pretty good, but not as good as Oklahoma". "Oklahoma deserves to play for the championship because they are obviously better than Auburn".
Find me one columnist after the season that still contended that Oklahoma was better than Auburn! Just one! Auburn's defense would have given USC fits last year. I am not going to go out on a limb and predict who would have won that game, but I will say that it should have been played! I am positive it would not have been a blowout like the USC-Oklahoma game was.
One other point that makes me believe that Coach Tuberville was absolutely right is that last year's Auburn team was chided for playing a weak schedule. Of the remaining unbeaten teams in the country right now, Texas has by far the weakest schedule, yet they already have plane tickets to Pasadena. What does a team have to do to change that?
Let me give you a hypothetical situation. If Georgia and Alabama win their remaining games and play for the SEC championship, Alabama will have played FOUR teams who have been ranked in the top FIVE at some point this season:

1. Tennessee opened the season ranked 3rd.
2. By week 4, LSU was 3rd.
3. Also in week 4, Florida was 5th.
4. Georgia currently sits at 4th.

Now tell me that Texas plays a tougher schedule than that! They only have 3 teams on their entire schedule who have been ranked in the top 25 (including Colorado at 24). In my opinion, if Alabama OR Georgia were to win out, one of those two MUST play for the National Championship! And that's all I'll say about that! ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!!