We want a Fiesta, not a Holiday

Again, the Pac-10 gets shafted by the BCS. This year, of course, it hits closer to home, as Oregon (10-1 and ranked 5th in the final BCS standings) gets passed up by 4-loss Florida State and two 2-loss teams (Notre Dame and Ohio State) to get knocked out of this year's BCS bowl picture.

Consolation prize: Yet another entry into the Holiday Bowl, which is where Cal got dropped last year when they also got crapped on after pulling off a 10-1 season (that year also losing only to the eventual national champs...).

Hmm. Oregon loses only one game, to the #1 USC Trojans, finishes 5th in the BCS, and somehow gets drubbed out of one of the 8 BCS Bowl game slots by #6 Notre Dame, #7 Georgia, #11 West Virginia, and #22 Florida State? That makes great sense to me.

What, again, is the advantage of a BCS that occasionally actually pits the #1 and #2 teams in the country against eachother, while often dropping the ball on sorting out the rest of the elite? When the #5 BCS team ends up going to a non-BCS bowl game against #23 Oklahoma, that signals a problem, to me.

How long 'til the Pac-10 finally boycotts the BCS? It's obviously not serving our interests...