re: 2011 BCS Champs Alabama - first Nat Champ to not win their Conf Champ?

When you're talking the BCS Championship, then Conference affiliation means nothing. It's a formula. OKST wins that game, the formula is completely different. But it being a Big 12 game meant nothing. Every game affects the computers, but whether it's a conference game doesn't matter. Being a conference champ only means something to the BCS if your not a 1 or 2.

That being said, if OKST wins out, then Bama is #3. But that didn't happen, and in the end 1 played 2 and unfortunately for us, 1 lost. The whole process is to set up 1 vs 2, or 2 vs 1.

Bama gets full credit for winning the BCSNCG. They won the game they had to win and got to take home the glass ball.

Winning the SEC Championship in and of itself if probably the second hardest (or maybe hardest in certain years when an SEC team is not in the BCSNCG) thing to to in college football. LSU should be proud of the achievement.

Bama = BCS Champs
LSU = SEC Champs
those are the facts