Kyle King is not too happy with Lynn Westmoreland over this:

Congratulations, Lynn. By being a sniveling little prisspot, you just managed to take a team that finished No. 2 in the country last year and figures to be a strong contender for the 2008 national title and reduced it to the status of a mid-major. Nice job, dipwad.

I understand that a great many of you who are reading this are principled playoff proponents who dislike the B.C.S. I respect that point of view. However, there is no way this kind of nonsense is going to do anything but make us look like a bunch of sore losers and petty wimps.

The Bulldogs didn't have a gripe about not getting into the national championship game; the Red and Black didn't win their conference title, Louisiana State and Oklahoma legitimately leapfrogged them on the final weekend, and, if the 'Dawgs had just scored one touchdown in a night game at home against a team that went 6-6 and didn't go to a bowl game, Georgia would have had its shot at L.S.U. on the first weekend in December, with a national championship game berth on the line. (Had Georgia won the head-to-head tiebreaker for the Eastern Division's slot in the conference title tilt, the Classic City Canines would have met Louisiana State with a chance to advance to play Ohio State. Sounds to me like we settled it on the field.)

The Warriors likewise didn't have a gripe because they played an atrocious schedule and their unworthiness was confirmed in New Orleans when, um, you know.

The Broncos have a gripe. Boise State had a case to make for the 2006 national crown and B.S.U. need not fear a post-Sugar Bowl backlash against non-B.C.S. teams because the Broncos face legitimate slates. If Congressman Simpson wants to pursue this, I think he's probably wasting his time, but his constituents might conscientiously have an argument.

We don't, and, even if we did, we were the No. 2 team in the dadgum country! Aside from occasional outbursts of idiocy from, um, you know, no one is doubting the Bulldogs as contenders.