College Football Corner: Crashin' BCS Bash

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- And they take the field at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the undefeated champions of the Big Ten, the Iowa Hawkeyes, and the beast of the Big East, the Cincinnati Bearcats!

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We interrupt this BCS national championship scenario because it doesn't include a team from the SEC.

What would the BCS do if it were faced with two undefeated teams from member conferences and one, one-loss powerhouse from the Southeastern Conference for two spots in the big game?

(OK, we know the BCS can't do anything other than go by the final rankings, but there is a public relations component, and certain members of the U.S. government seem interested in legislating the BCS out of existence.)

The pull of the SEC is so powerful, inasmuch as the conference won the last three BCS title games (Florida won twice in the past three seasons, with LSU sandwiched in between), that it's come to assume a big-game berth as a birthright. By the way, Florida went into those two title games with one loss each season, and LSU had two losses.

It also appears that Utah's domination of Alabama in the Sugar Bowl last January did little to detract from SEC hegemony.

Before we at the Corner get carried away with the idea of an all-newbie championship game (and it's strictly for novelty, because Florida and Alabama are great teams), let's also not forget the Texas Longhorns.

They were the last non-SEC team to win the title, and they are undefeated this season, currently sitting at No. 3 in the poll with a favorable remaining schedule (after Saturday).