What made me cheer fo UT today was the USC fans like that who call the LSU BCS championship mythical. LSU played by the rules and won it fair and square. As said elsewhere had it been reversed USC fans and most of America wouldn't even know that LSU won the AP championship.
Every single national championship (include tonight for my Texas Longhorns) is a freakin' mythical one. It is a ridiculous game between 2 subjectively selected beauty contest winners. 1 game does not make a playoff, so no team ever wins it on the field. It is the sorry BS that is the system right now.
IMHO it is only 50-50 that both USC and Texas would win out to meet in the championship game if there was an 8 or more team playoff. Only 2 of the favorites in the last 7 mythical nat'l championship game have won, which tells us all we need to know about the accuracy of the polls. If they can predict the winner of a single game only 2 out of 7 tries, then odds are that they are usually going to screw up assessing who are the 2 best teams each year.
The system is a joke, and tonight's mythical nat'l championship is just as phony as all the previous ones. Until there is a playoff, its all just figure skating.