Kansas...the TRUE National Champion?

I didn't get a chance to watch many bowl games since I've been home. It's not that I'm not interested, because I am. It's probably because that my parents decided to buy a 50 inch television, and not have cable. So now, I'm forced to watch championship caliber bowl games, on a GIANT fuzzy TV. And since we don't have cable, ESPN is out. So I'm stuck checking scores and highlights from my laptop which I am currently stealing my neighbor's wireless. (To the owner of the linksys router...my profound apologies). Anyway, the one game that I did get to see last night which I thoroughly enjoyed was the Kansas-Virginia Tech game. I went into this thinking that the Hokie defense would just overwhelm the Jayhawk offense. 60 minutes later, the Jayhawks held on for a 24-21 victory. This is a huge win for the program, not just because the team is coming off a 6-6 record last year, but mainly because it proves that maybe the BCS did get it right. That's not to say that Missouri wouldn't have beaten Va Tech also, but Kansas proved doubters wrong and in some people's minds, if LSU beats Ohio State, Kansas should be the true national champion.

Here's the problem I have with this, there is no way you can declare Kansas national champion regardless of Monday's outcome. Simply because, they played nobody. Until the Nov. 24th game against Missouri, the best team the Jayhawks had played up to that point was the Oct. 6th game at Kansas State, a team that finished the season 5-7. The vote will be up to the AP voters where they stand. In my opinion as of right now, the best two teams are USC and whomever wins Monday night's game. Granted, I want Ohio State to win more than anything, but something tells me they're going to have trouble stopping the LSU offense, even though the defense is playing out of their minds right now. (I read an article that said OSU had only given up 98 points on the entire season on defense. Ok, actually 128, but 30 of those points were on kick off and punt returns for touchdowns. So those don't actually count.) If Ohio State wins this game, there's no debate here. So I guess we'll have to just wait and see.