[RinaseaofDs]

No, it's not that simple.

Cal lost to USC, the number 1 team in the country. Traditionally, the Pac 10 and Big 10 play in the Rose, before the BCS got to it and loused it up.

Stated simply, Texas cried on the kneecaps of the sports writers, and the press being mostly liberal, refused to acknowledge that Cal was a stronger team this year.

By your logic, Texas shouldn't have lost to whoever they lost to this year either.

[andrew2527]

My only point was that in college football there is one way to control your own destiny: Win every game. All the fuss over texas v. cal overshadows the only team in the nation with a legitimate right to complain: Auburn. Only someone biased towards one of the two at-large contenders would even try to argue that either deserves to be in the Rose Bowl at the expense of the other.