I don't see what the big deal is. Every team knew what system was in place to determine the national champion before the season started. It's a season long tournament, and you can't have a bad week or it could come back to haunt you. As far as LSU jumping a bunch of other teams, it was legitimate. How could you have a team that didn't even win its conference championship go to the national championship (Georgia, Kansas)? I will admit that Georgia was playing great at the end of the season but they didn't take care of business all year long. Same with USC. I'm not going to debate the strength of the SEC compared to other conferences, everyone has their own opinion of that. Personally I think the SEC is the toughest conference in the nation, but that's my opinion. What I do think is unfair is for the SEC, Big 12 and Big East to have to go through their conference schedules and then have to play a conference championship game while the Pac 10 and Big 10 don't have a conference championship game. And I'm sure that this isn't the first year that there has been some disagreement over who the national champion should be, that's every year. What about Auburn a few years ago when they went undefeated? People should just realize that the system paired what it considered the two most worthy teams in the national championship, and LSU won the game, end of story.