This is a random time to bring this up, but I was thinking about it this morning.
It always used to bug me that the SEC would peacock around with the number of national championships they had won in a row in the BCS era. The reason is because they always had a bid to the BCS championship game since their 2006 appearance. And they usually got a favorable matchup of some sort. In other words, the BCS formula rewarded a certain type of season and didn't necessary pick the two subjectively best teams. That's how they ended up getting walkovers in :
2007 OSU
2009 Texas (with a true freshman playing QB)
2011 BOTH participants from the SEC
2012 Notre Dame
So yeah, they won 7 in a row but one of those was impossible to lose (2011) and 3 more were virtual gimmes. So it's interesting to see that the SEC is only 1 out of 3 national championships in the CFP era despite having a team ranked in the top 2 every year...
It always used to bug me that the SEC would peacock around with the number of national championships they had won in a row in the BCS era. The reason is because they always had a bid to the BCS championship game since their 2006 appearance. And they usually got a favorable matchup of some sort. In other words, the BCS formula rewarded a certain type of season and didn't necessary pick the two subjectively best teams. That's how they ended up getting walkovers in :
2007 OSU
2009 Texas (with a true freshman playing QB)
2011 BOTH participants from the SEC
2012 Notre Dame
So yeah, they won 7 in a row but one of those was impossible to lose (2011) and 3 more were virtual gimmes. So it's interesting to see that the SEC is only 1 out of 3 national championships in the CFP era despite having a team ranked in the top 2 every year...
