OSU-UF for the championship. Absolutely. And I am in no way a UF fan, although it would be nice to see the SEC finally get a chance to play a game they've deserved to play for a while.
Anyone who is in favor of an OSU-Michigan championship game needs to answer the following question: why should OSU have to beat Michigan twice to win a national championship, yet Michigan would only have to win one of two OSU games to win the championship?
If anyone can provide a logical response to that absurd conclusion, then and only then will I listen to any arguments about Michigan getting a rematch against OSU.
Actually, that's a simple one to answer. There is no "unfairness". Had Michigan won 42-39, Ohio State would likely get a re-match (could anyone seriously call for Florida over OSU for the #2 slot?), and would "only have to beat Michigan once, but Michigan has to beat them twice"... in other words, the set-up is the same for each.
Before the OSU-MICH game, nobody thought that Michigan only needs to win one of those games, because that was not, and is not, the actual issue. The apparent "logical fallacy in favor of Michigan" is just a play on words, and a lame hope for Florida fans to excuse their failure to have a single dominant win since September (well, against a Div I team, anyway).
Ummmm...because the only game that counts for the "national championship" is the national championship game?
Ohio State has to win in Glendale on January 8th to become "national champion," just as whoever is its opponent must, regardless of who its opponent is. What happened in the regular season is irrelevant, once the contestants are chosen.
Of course, the Michigan that would play in Glendale isn't the same Michigan that lost to tOSU (for one thing, Manningham would probably be healthy), which is only one reason the whole notion of a "national champion" in college football remains silly.
Why Should have had Florida to beat FSU twice in 1996 to win the national championship???
If Dallas plays Indy in the Super Bowl, why should Dallas have to beat the Colts twice to win it, or if Chicago plays New England in the Super Bowl, why should New England have to beat Chicago twice???