re: Looking Back on Auburn's National Championship Season

There was a HUGE controversy. People were discussing whether or not they would vote LSU ahead of Georgia given the fact that Georgia playing so much better and LSU had lost both games more recently. Georgia was ranked at #4 in the country and was subsequently jumped even though they hadn't lost since the beginning of October. And LSU was the team that had gotten the fewest first place votes in the AP poll since they got the fewest in the 2004 vote. Georgia got 3.

That's all from Wikipedia. I remember watching people debate on TV the whole week leading up to it that a #7 LSU shouldn't jump from 7th place just because they snuck by a Tennessee team that was regressing and had the same record as other teams.

I think you take championships the way you get them. So LSU was lucky, and they worked hard. But in the same respect, there were rules in place that addressed and purposely didn't require a division championship, so to rely on one fallacy to validate your championship while marginalizing another team's shot or championship is ridiculous. Time and time again, they discussed having a division/conference champion requirement, and time and time again, they voted it down.