BCS Selection Time

I'm not going to rehash the game, and I'm not going to go into detail about why we lost a game we should have won. I'll have plenty of time to do that during Christmas break (and I will...).

For now, I have more immediate concerns - predicting the BCS selections. There are still some Conference championship games to be played, but here are my predictions coming out of the weekend.

National Championship game	Ohio State Buckeyes	v.	Southern Cal Trojans
Glendale, AZ	BCS #1		BCS #2
Rose Bowl	Michigan Wolverines	v.	Louisiana State Tigers
Pasadena, CA	Big-Ten Replacement (automatic #3 BCS selection)		Pac-10 Replacement (at-large, no automatic berth)
Sugar Bowl	Florida Gators	v.	Notre Dame Fightin' Irish
New Orleans, LA	SEC Champ		At-large #1 (at-large, no automatic berth unless ranked #8 or higher)
Orange Bowl	Georgia Tech Yellowjackets	v.	Louisville Cardinals
Miami, FL	ACC Champ		At-large #2 (Big East champ)
Fiesta Bowl	Oklahoma Sooners	v.	Boise State Broncos
Glendale, AZ	Big 12 Champ		At-large #3 (automatic non-BCS conference champ)

There is a possibility that the Rose Bowl, disgusted with the matchups they've gotten since joining the BCS, chooses Notre Dame to get in a rematch with Michigan rather than a less traditional matchup. Notre Dame has played in the Rose Bowl before, in 1925.

There is an extremely remote possibility that Notre Dame falls out of the BCS entirely (although the Sugar Bowl has all but stated that they will pick Notre Dame if they are available and qualified). In that unlikely event, the Irish would fall o the Cotton Bowl, probably to face Texas.

A Florida-Notre Dame matchup in the Sugar Bowl is very attractive to the selection committee for two reasons. First, it pits Urban Meyer, who spurned advances from Notre Dame in the wake of the Willingham firing to take the job at Florida, against Weis, who eventually accepted the Notre Dame job. It will give the two coaches a chance to prove who has taken their team further in their first two years at the helm.

Also, a Notre Dame Florida matchup will be on the 15th anniversary of the famous "Cheerios" bowl, when the 18th ranked Irish beat the 3rd ranked Gators after several weeks of hearing that Notre Dame didn't belong in a bowl game of that stature.

Beat SC

On a warm, sunny California autumn evening, the Irish ride again.

The team who has had such legendary leaders such as Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy now has at its helm he robot genius, Charlie Weis. Winner of 4 Super Bowl titles in the NFL, Weis has his sights set on a new ring for his fist.

The school that has produced legendary quarterbacks like Paul "Golden Boy" Hornung, Joe Theismann, and Joe Montana, now has their greatest quarterback leading the charge.

This school, with all of its mystique, tradition, and constant drive for excellence stands poised to send a message to the college football world.

On the other sideline today will be the frauds of Southern Cal. The school with more murderers invited to their sideline than any other school. The school with the most NCAA violations ever to get swept under the rug. The school that is a mirror reflection of its Hollywood home - glitzy and glamorous on the surface, seedy, corrupt and defiled on the inside.

The classic battle of good vs. evil rages today. The Evil Empire of Southern Cal, with their empty promises and blackened hearts tries to maintain their ill-gotten grip on college football. The Notre Dame Fightin' Irish are the rebellion - the idealists who still believe in truth, justice, and the American way.

For too long, our team has been held back by leadership that could not meet their expectations, and now that we have adults in charge, we aim to retake our position at the top of college football.

All that remains for this team is to achieve the one goal that they have thus failed to do in their college careers.

Beat SC.

It doesn't have to be close...

BEAT SC.

BEAT SC.

BEAT SC.

BEAT SC.

BEAT SC.