On the list of things I don't understand...

...the following has to be pretty high on the list. So, you have Michigan and Ohio State University that are, by universal acclimation, the two best college football teams in the country. And you considerable controversy who number three is. Some say USC, others Rutgers, and others (inexplicably) pick an SEC team out of a hat and say they are number three.

    Here's what I don't understand. Michigan and OSU will be playing this weekend and one of them will, necessarily, lose. But, supposing that the game is fairly close, we won't have any more information about who the second best team in the league will be after that game. If OSU loses, then they lost the best team in the country and could very well be the second best team in the country themselves. If Michigan loses, same thing.

    But will Michigan and OSU remain 1 and 2 (in either order) after this weekend? Almost certainly not. Even if Michigan loses by a field goal with three seconds left, they will drop out of number 2 and USC or Texas or Rutgers or Notre Dame (?!) or Florida (???) will invariably take up spot number 2 for the national title game. I just find it totally bizarre. Am I missing something?

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[exemplar of benevolence]

What can you expect from a sport that f**cked with the Rose Bowl?!

[Steve Calderwood]

I can't help but notice that my questions were never answered...