There was no debate on that except from OSU fans and folks who don't like the SEC. Would there have been a debate for Bama if we'd had one loss to Vanderbilt or Ole Miss rather than LSU.
OSU had a clear path to the championship game, but then lost to a third level team.
Nonsense. I have no particular animus for the SEC nor do I even like Oklahoma State. I still maintain that they were robbed of their chance by a flawed system, and the computers agree with me, though the sportswriters don't. (And on the whole, I have more use for computers than sportswriters.)