I've been trying to completely absorb the fact the Alabama just won its 13th National Championship. In addition, I've been trying to balance my excitement over the win with my disappointment over not beating Texas with Colt McCoy in the game.
I don't want to hear excuses or whining from Texas fans ad infinitum. I don't want anyone to feel like there should be an asterisk beside the win. It was a win. As I mentioned in my previous post, our offense scored 37 points against their defense.
Cecil Hurt's column in today's Sports section of The Tuscaloosa News reminded me the fact is that if Texas fans believe there should be an asterisk, then it should be placed by the score of the Texas-Oklahoma game.
According to Hurt: With a healthy Sam Bradford, Oklahoma beats Texas in October. Instead, Bradford got hurt and had to come out of the game. I perused Texas' pre-game packet, including their season results. It said Texas 16, Oklahoma 13. There was no asterisk. End of discussion.
Things happen every day, and they require hard work and perserverance and--it's true--even a little luck sometimes. But when a team goes through the nation's toughest schedule--and with Texas, Florida and Virginia Tech added to the core SEC schedule, that is just what Alabama faced--and goes 14-0, it's preposterous to talk about an "asterisk" associated with a BCS title.
BCS championships are awarded to the teams that deal with adversity, not given on an honorary basis to teams that don't And you'd better be prepared to deal with it, not just on game day but on every day. Because that is college football--no asterisk required.
Thanks, Cecil. I needed that.
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