Sure, maybe Auburn got jobbed. But so were Utah, Boise State, California, Paul Newman at the '61 Academy Awards and most working Americans when the income tax came along in 1913. Hey, you've just got to take it like a man -- like I do, remote in hand.
Anyway, you say, "BCS Saturday," I say, "Bring on the Cinnabons!" Plus, as a Viewer of the People, I took notes:
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BCS leaves Auburn out of Orange Bowl; Southern Cal and Oklahoma are in.
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A look back at the weekend and a look ahead at the coming week's action with a fresh new edge.
• Norman Chad's Couch Slouch
• Starting Lineup
• The Chat: Duane "Dog" Chapman from A&E's "Dog, the Bounty Hunter"
• Two-Minute Drill
• 7 Days
_____ The Quote _____
"I'm golfed out. I have no interest in going and playing for a while."
-- Steve Spurrier, on his dedication to coaching at South Carolina. _____ The Monday Morning Poll _____
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4:39 p.m. ET Saturday: Reggie Bush scores on the second play of the USC-UCLA game, somersaulting into the end zone. I did the same thing when I got 1,020 on my SAT.
4:40: On most football Saturdays, I don't crack open my first Rolling Rock until a defensive touchdown. Today's an exception.
4:52: My father went to UCLA, so you can understand my bias: Southern Cal has "student-athletes" like Stalinist Russia had "elected leaders."
4:56: If he's available, I'm hiring Keith Jackson to call my funeral.
5:07: Bryant Gumbel is interviewing Pete Carroll on HBO. I didn't know Gumbel could do an entire "Real Sports" piece while sitting in someone's lap.
5:22: ABC's Dan Fouts deserved a better fate than Dennis Miller and "Monday Night Football" expulsion.
5:43: If it's a choice between the BCS and the Electoral College, I'll take the Dewey Decimal System.
5:58: Sportswriters have difficulty matching neckties to shirts, and you want them deciding the national champion?
5:58:30: Actually, sportswriters are regular people -- except they bet on the games they cover, consider press-box food a professional perk and expense cab rides to massage parlors.
(By the way, the Heisman Trophy -- another sportswriter sham-and-a-half -- will be presented Saturday. Timmy Chang, he of 16,667 career passing yards, likely will not receive a single vote. The past two weeks, against the Big Ten's Northwestern and Michigan State, Chang completed 60 of 105 passes for 821 yards and eight touchdowns. Against Michigan State, Chang -- who is like a son to me, although I am not like a father to him -- rallied Hawaii from a 21-0 deficit to a 41-38 victory. Watching it on ESPN2, I wept openly.)
6:05: Nothing says "Southeastern Conference championship" like Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio with a nice hunk of Havarti cheese.
6:33: Before it's all over, I won't be surprised if Dan Rather turns down the Notre Dame job.
