And that happened...

By the way, Florida won the BCS Championship and extended the SEC’s title reign to three years. This gives the SEC four of the last six National Championships and, since the inauguration of the BCS, five of eleven. Unfortunately, other than recruiting, no one really cares about college football right now. After the Super Bowl, we’ll officially have no football until early fall. I guess we’ll have to make due with basketball and baseball until then.

Speaking of basketball, the SEC has been absolutely terrible this year. Tennessee barely looks like a tournament-worthy team (having gone 1-4 in their last five home games) and the rest of the league is even worse. No team is in the RPI top 25, and Kentucky is the lone SEC representative in the polls. After losing to Ole Miss, I doubt they’ll stick around much longer, either. Only two teams (Tennessee and Florida) are even in the RPI top 50. For absolute futility, the award has to go to Georgia. The Bulldogs (9-11) somehow have a lower RPI than such storied programs as Canisius (7-13) and Rice (6-14). Just sad.

And how the hell is Notre Dame ranked? Okay, they beat Texas and (a now-slumping) Georgetown, but come on, people! Other than those two teams, their next best win is over Seton Hall! The same Seton Hall that’s 1-6 in the Big East. Oh, and Notre Dame is ranked 78th in RPI, is 11-7 and they’ve lost five of their last seven. I don’t care if four of those losses have been against top 25 teams, teams should be ranked because they win games, not because they ‘kind of keep it close’ against elite teams. The rest of the schedule doesn’t get any easier with six RPI top 50 opponents left to go (four on the road) so hopefully Notre Dame will just fade away. Although I wouldn’t mind having the opportunity to pick them to get upset by another double-digit seed in the tourney…