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     This time of year is always kind of a drag.
     For the first time in three years, the Huskers aren't preparing to challenge a behemoth from south of Kansas for a conference title and 'shake up' the BCS. They are chilling, waiting for the bowl possibilities to be revealed and resting up, healing, or maybe playing some X-Box.
     The conference championships range from the sublime to the ridiculous. The best to watch should be the B1G Championship, and that is said without bias. Sure, neither team is in the Top 10, and it is a re-match, which everyone hates, right? It is easily the closest match-up of any championship game and Whisky wants to avenge their heartbreaker loss to Sparty. If Whisky wins, they get to make amends for their egg-laying in the Rose Bowl, last year. If Sparty wins, they get to go to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1988. Wow.
     The most important championship game is the SEC's. LSU has to win in order to go to the NCG, but could still get in with a close loss. Georgia has a puncher's chance, but if LSU plays at the level they have all year, then it should be pretty cut-and-dry. This could very well be the best LSU team, ever. Even when they won the NC in 2007 (Bo was DC), they lost two games. If they beat Georgia, and then Alabama (again) they will be 14-0, coming out of the toughest conference in the country. I have been hearing that they might even be better, next year.
     The Big 12 has a de facto championship game with the 'Bedlam' game between Okie and Okie light. Their should be over 100 points scored between these two. Both have high-octane offenses, OU's is like 87-test and OSU's is 98, but since neither team defends the pass, the game will be a basketball score.
     Out on the left coast, the Pac-12 'championship' needs to remain in quotes. From the North, you have Oregon, who lost one conference game, to USC. From the South, you have UCLA, who is there with a 5-4 record, and a 50-0 loss to the aforementioned USC (who is ineligible for post-season play). Add to that that their coach, Skippy Neuheisel, will coach the game despite having been fired. If Oregon doesn't win this by half-a-hunnert, it's only because Coach Kelly doesn't want his starters getting hurt.
     Over in the ACC, Virginia Tech is set for revenge against Clemson, their only loss on the year. VTU is playing lights-out, right now and Clemson has lost three of their last four. If VTU wins, they are the only team that I can make a strong case for facing LSU, rather than Alabama in the NCG. If VTU wins, they will have avenged their only loss of the season, and played an extra game. 'Bama's only loss was to LSU, at home, and the old arguments that hounded Nebraska in 2001 should re-surface. They couldn't win their division, how can they play for the National Championship?
     I submit that the case for Alabama is still strong. Over the course of the year, Alabama and LSU have been the best two teams. Both defeated every opponent by 30 points a game, except when they played each other, and that went into overtime. Alabama has the best defense in the country, LSU, the second. If you simply want the best game for the NC, can you honestly say that a Virginia Tech-LSU game in New Orleans would be better than an SEC revenge game?
     As for Nebraska, it could be the Capitol One ($4.6m), Outback ($3.5m), or Gator ($2.7m) bowl. All in Florida, and all against an SEC team. The projections have Arkansas, Auburn and South Carolina as potential opponents. Ideally, Nebraska gets the Capitol one against South Carolina, but I think it will be Outback against Arkansas.
 Husk-husk and on the qb.