Below The Beltway

It wasn’t as much of a blowout as last year, but, once again, the Buckeyes fell victim to an SEC team:
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 7 — All season, Louisiana State had the nation’s most charmed team, winning tight games with gutsy fourth-down conversions and one inexplicable last-second heave into the end zone. On Monday night, LSU [...]

I’ll be taking a break from politics this evening to watch the BCS Championship Game. Hopefully, things will turn out better for Ohio State than they did last year.

It’s official, Ohio State will be in the BCS Championship Game for the second year in a row and, this time, they’ll be facing a different team from the SEC:
NEW YORK (AP) — LSU has a ticket to the title game. Everyone else has a pretty good gripe.
The latest chapter in this crazy, unpredictable college [...]

At least in the Associated Poll, its as if the last month never happened:
NEW YORK (AP) — Let’s try this again.
Ohio State was No. 1 and LSU was 2 in the AP Top 25 on Sunday, just as they were a month ago, before four weeks of upsets and unlikely results capped the most unpredictable [...]

I’ve lost count of how many times it’s happened since September, but once again this weekend, the BCS Championship race took a detour with both the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked teams losing:
First, West Virginia suffered a shocking loss against Pittsburgh:
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The curse of No. 2 claimed another victim. West Virginia is [...]