re: Best Runner-Up of the BCS Era? (Outside of LSU 2011)

LSU 2011 outscored a schedule that included 9 bowl teams and 3 teams ranked #3 or higher by a cumulative of 500-123. No one got within 2 touchdowns of LSU except Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
Had we beaten the Gumps in the Media Do-Over Bowl, or, had the BCS gotten it right, LSU probably would have beaten Okie State and been named as one of the Top 3 CFB teams in history.