Right now we are faced with (as it seems annually) a nightmare scenario for the BCS.
Lets assume the following happens:
A) Arkansas beats LSU (in a very close game)
B) Alabama beats Auburn
This would most likely reshuffle the top 3 BCS teams to:
1. Alabama
2. Arkansas
3. LSU
I suppose Ok State, Va Tech, or Stanford could jump up to third, but if LSU loses, say 17-16, how many voters would drop them more than from 1st to 3rd? Enough to move one of those teams above LSU?
The highest BCS ranking out of the three goes to the SEC championship game.
Then,
C) Georgia upsets Alabama
This would leave the two highest teams for the BCS as teams that finished no better than 3rd and 4th in their conference, yet one of them would become the national champion. Looks like the BCS planned for this nightmare scenario, since under that situation 3 teams from the SEC would be BCS bound:
http://www.bcsfootba...tory?id=4819597
Under at large eligibility it says:
No more than two teams from a conference may be selected, regardless of whether they are automatic qualifiers or at-large selections, unless two non-champions from the same conference are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the final BCS Standings.
I realize they've planned for it with this rule, but it would probably still be met with a lot of complaints outside of SEC country. It would really be funny if under this scenario Houston then beat Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, so that the conference champ of the SEC loses to the only remaining undefeated team, while the 3rd and 4th place SEC teams play for the national championship.
Granted, Alabama would probably trash Georgia to prevent all of this chaos (or even more likely LSU will smash Arkansas, then smash Georgia) but if it does happen, the BCS/anti-BCS schism may get even stronger.
This scenario would possibly be goofier than what a typical round of playoffs would produce.