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You’re the one spreading the nonsense. A team loses to a third rate opponent and then should be in the national championship game?

OSU had a clear path and blew it, and had wins over what were proved at the end of the season to be overrated opponents. Remember that great, early season clash between #1 Oklahoma and #5 FSU? And ranked Texas? And how does KSU now look after their game with Arkansas, which Bama beat by four touchdowns?

Looking at the full year including the bowl results shows which teams were overrated due to weak opponents.

OSU beat more top 20 teams than Alabama did, but somehow you focus on the one game they did poorly rather than their quality wins. There's a reason the computers (which don't suffer from nearly as much bias as the self-affirming community of sportswriters and coaches) ranked them higher than Alabama -- because they looked at the entire season.

Remember, Alabama was #1, and lost at home in the world's most boring field goal kicking contest, therefore not even making it to their conference championship game, let alone winning their conference. Meanwhile, OSU's lone loss was worse, but they had more quality wins and won conference title in the second best conference in the country.

I'd say there's at least a reasonable argument in favor of OSU. The only people who seem to dismiss that out of hand are SEC partisans.

(For the record, I'm a Big 10 partisan, but I have the good sense to not claim that any Big 10 team should have even been included in a playoff...)