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Gameday Instant Analysis: BCS edition
Published: 1/8/2013 12:02 AM
Last Modified: 1/8/2013 12:02 AM

You don't have to like it. You don't have to believe it. But it's time to say it one more time -- the Southeastern Conference rules college football.

Alabama made Notre Dame look like some BCS buster Monday night, not one of the name brands in college football.

I watched Notre Dame pull away from Oklahoma in the fourth quarter earlier this year, and couldn't have been more impressed. With that team on my mind, I thought this game might be close.

Unfortunately, I forgot about the five games the Irish played that were decided by a touchdown or less and the two games decided in overtime.

Notre Dame could play Alabama 20 times, and would probably never beat the Tide.

And if you're an Oklahoma football fan, it would be hard to imagine a more disappointing four-day span. You get blown out in a bowl game by a former conference foe, you lose a top recruit to the same opponent, you lose two high-profile players to the NFL Draft, and then you watch your best loss of the season look like a Sun Belt team in the title game.

We talked after Friday's loss to Texas A&M about how far the Sooners are from returning to the national title picture. That crystal trophy looks even farther in the distance after Monday night.

Obviously, football is a cyclical game. But would you bet on OU rejoining that conversation next season? About the only bright side for OU was that the Sooners didn't beat Notre Dame so they weren't on the business end of the Tide's wrath Monday.

And unfortunately, for the rest of the country, it doesn't sound like Alabama, winner of three of the last four BCS titles, is going anywhere.

"Georgia is 5 yards from being here," Alabama coach Nick Saban told ESPN after the game. "We've got to get better in our league."

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Ratiocinate123 (last month)

ND should have never been in title game. Way over rated by pundits like you and everyone else with a non-objective bias.

Tulsa World Sports Editor Michael Peters (last month)

Notre Dame won all its games. When a power program wins all its games in the current system, they play for the BCS championship. An undefeated historic power is rarely going to miss the BCS title game in the current format. The format is built by power teams to benefit power teams.

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