Is OEC Flawed?

Another year, another bunch of calls from OSU fans trying to give me crap. Karma’s a bitch. So even though I got nothing on the game this year (my team lost to a school that lost to a I-AA team!), this bit of hate mail is for those of you that took your time to (again) give me s… today, when will you learn?:

Congratulations to LSU for winning the OEC, Ohio Embarrasment Championship, with score of 38-17. Previously known as the Bowl Championship Series, the championship game celebrates the supposedly undeserving team from a real conference that gets to make their mark on history, as the undisputed shamer of corn pushers with weak schedules who backed into the game by the virtue of not losing to the pile of unranked teams they are not supposed to lose to in the first place.  

So is BCS flawed? Yes. But only in the terms of weights placed on strength of schedule. You see, for the most part, BCS series works – with the exception of teams that play.. well.. nobody.. and then get shamed by the undeserving teams like Florida, LSU, Boise St, West Virginia. Not by a field goal or two, or even two touchdowns, but big margins of victory. Meanwhile, the “deserving” and laughably “smart” conferences, are backing into the big games, year after year, being shamed into the record books by teams that play in tough conferences.

I know some OSU fans are going to disagree with me, so please consider Ohio State record against SEC teams:

2002 31-28 (Lost to South Carolina)
2001 24-7 (Lost to South Carolina)
1996 20-14 (Lost to Tennessee)
1995 24-17 (Lost to Alabama)
1993 21-14 (Lost to Georgia)
1990 31-14 ((Lost to Auburn)
1978 35-6 (Lost to Alabama)

Oh, one more –

Lost to LSU.