In his three games against top 40 pass defenses this season (Colorado, Oklahoma and Nebraska), McCoy has thrown for an average of 192 yards, with two touchdowns and five interceptions. Three of those five interceptions were in the Big 12 Conference Championship.

Truthfully, I don’t think McCoy was lollygagging at all. I think he may have been slightly concussed after being sacked 9 times and getting knocked down another 7 times. Those numbers don’t count getting banged around after running the ball upfield on keepers. He’s a tough guy, but those hits had to have taken its toll on him.

Thanks for thinking Nebraska deserved to have the Big 12 spot in the Fiesta, but I don’t think they are up to playing that caliber of football yet. They’ll settle for the Holiday Bowl for now. Can’t complain though, going from cellar dweller under Callafraud to Division champs in two years under Pelini has the fans feeling pretty good.

Pelini has the defense fixed, now they need to find an identity for the offense. I don’t know if there will be changes to the offensive coordinators staff in the offseason, or if they need to make some personnel changes to go in a different direction, but something needs to be done to get over that hump.

I will be looking forward to the rematch October 16, 2010 in Lincoln.

16 Troy at 1 Alabama
9 Georgia Tech at 8 Ohio State

12 Penn State at 5 Florida
13 LSU at 4 TCU

15 East Carolina at 2 Texas
10 Iowa at 7 Oregon

11 Virginia Tech at 6 Boise State
14 Central Michigan at 3 Cincinnati

Now those would be some mighty fine matchups to watch.

In summary: take the 10 conference champions (I excluded the lowly Sun Belt), add 6 at-large teams, have a 16-game seeded tournament where the higher-seeded teams play at home, play the first three weeks of this tournament in the first three weekends of December (that’s when Div II and III play their tournaments after all), play the championship game after the bowls, pay off the bowls that had tournament teams in them by giving them a slice of the gate from the tourney games. It’s a weird system in that the two teams in the championship game would have to take a break from that to play in their respective bowl games, but those bowl games would be getting a slice of multiple tournament game gates, and it would be a damn sight better than the cluster**** we have now.

Sugar winner vs. Fiesta winner for National Championship, Rose and Orange winners square off on Versus channel at 6:00AM on a Tuesday. BCS = fixed.

Unless the stakes are equal, as in a playoff system, bowl results are meaningless.