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It's an outrage! Florida will play Ohio State for the title. Michigan would have been an outrage too.

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Dec. 4, 2006 | The BCS has screwed it up again. It's outrageous!

To save time, I wrote that lead before the bowl selections were announced Sunday night.

I'm kidding, of course. It didn't save me any time. I have a script that opens a new document and types those words with a single keystroke. If not for that, I'd be out with repetitive stress injuries every year at this time.

Florida is the outrage. The Gators are the answer to the question, "Which more-or-less randomly selected one-loss team gets to play Ohio State in the National Championship Game in Glendale, Ariz., on Jan. 8?" If Michigan had been the answer, the Wolverines would have been the outrage. There were also various and sundry other outrages down the BCS standings.

Florida leapfrogged Michigan for the No. 2 spot, which is no wonder. Michigan hasn't even won a game since Nov. 11, the layabouts. All they've done is lose by three points to the undefeated No. 1 team in the nation and then sit around. While they were doing that, first USC passed them by beating Notre Dame -- something Michigan made the mistake of doing in September -- and now Florida has done it.

The Gators were busy, clubbing 1-AA Western Carolina 62-0 while Michigan was messing around with Ohio State, and then getting past Florida State and Arkansas, a couple of solid if not dominating wins.

Clearly, the way to the National Championship Game is to keep playing games after the other guys are done, provided you win them, which is where Western Carolina can come in handy. That gives the voters, who probably haven't seen your team except on highlights all year, a chance to check you out.

So if you're a Florida fan you think the right team's in the title game. If you're a Michigan fan you think the wrong team's in the title game. If you're anybody else, you're probably banging your head on a wall somewhere. Or at least it feels like it.

For the record -- because I know there's a record around here someplace -- I think Florida is a better choice than Michigan, even though I suspect Michigan is the better team.

If only there were some way to figure out who's better, Michigan or Florida!

I think Florida's the right choice -- to use that phrase loosely -- because at least the Gators won their conference. So what? I'll tell you what. Sit back down. If you let a team go directly from losing its conference to the championship game, why have conferences?

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