Wow. For weeks, literally, we’ve listened to people who have been whining about how Hawaii should’ve been in the championship game.
“Hawaii’s undefeated”, they’d exclaim! “LSU has two losses”, they’d say in such a tone as to imply that maybe we hadn’t yet realized that two is greater than zero. “Who cares if their schedule is a little weak, LSU plays a week non-conference schedule too!” Uh huh.
We’ve heard how Georgia wasn’t ready for the Fighting Rainbows, how they wouldn’t be able to stop Colt Brennan, how the Dawgs wouldn’t be able to score enough points, blah, blah blah.
And then they played the game. 41-10, Georgia.
Look, the “which conference is best” argument is pointless because there’s really no way to answer solve it, but that’s what makes it fun. Unfortunately, a lot of SEC fans a True Believers that every other conference is inherently inferior — it gets annoying. A lot of people jumped on the Hawaii bandwagon because they wanted the SEC to lose that game, and it was easy to believe an undefeated team would beat a late-season juggernaut.
Bottom line, though, Hawaii wasn’t good enough to play with 8 of the 12 teams in the SEC, let alone the Georgia Bulldogs, who are probably playing the best football in the nation right now. They had no business being in a BCS game, period. Hopefully next time the hype gets ratcheted up over an undefeated team who plays a bottom 10 schedule someone will pause and remember this game.
