For the second year in a row, my holiday season has been extended by a week, so I can watch Ohio State play for the national championship. We get to tangle with the SEC champs — this time, LSU — for the second-straight January, thereby giving us a chance to maybe end — temporarily at least — all the crap I’ve had to endure about the SEC’s superiority for the last year.

This turn of events prompts some thoughts:

• I get to start hating Les Miles a lot sooner than I thought.
• The backlash against Ohio State — which apparently was appointed the BCS poster child sometime recently when I wasn’t paying attention — started even before Sunday night’s selection show and will continue for a while. We’re getting crushed, even though we’re not doing anything that our fellow BCS invitees also do as a matter of course. There will be a post about this, with a lot more detail, coming later this week, but here’s a hint: Games against 1-AA teams and smaller in-state opponents are a lot more common than most people — including SEC fans — think.
• You may recall a post from a couple of days ago, when I kind of suggested that Oklahoma wouldn’t have too much trouble beating Missouri, which, of course would open up a slot for the Buckeyes in the title game. You may also recall that I also kind of suggested that I had little faith that Pitt could beat West Virginia, which is why I was putting all my eggs in the Sooners’ basket. As it turned out, I couldn’t possibly have been more wrong about the Backyard Brawl and I now publicly apologize to each of the Uncle Crappy readers who have affiliations with the University of Pittsburgh — I think there’s about two of you. Now — can’t you do something about Wannstedt’s mustache? I mean, that thing looks like it was drawn on his face by a 2-year-old.
• I also need to offer my condolences to Matlock; I was looking forward to an Ohio State-West Virginia matchup in the title game.