What is wrong with a rematch?

Can someone please explain what exactly the problem is with a rematch in the BCS title game?  Why should the two best teams be prohibited from playing in the title game simply because they played each other in the regular season?  The goal of any championship game is to have the two best teams play each other for the championship, yet many in the college football media are acting like this is a meaningless game simply because they played each other earlier this year.  While LSU won the previous matchup in Tuscaloosa, it wasn’t exactly a blowout and it could’ve easily gone either way.  We should cherish the opportunity to see two very elite teams play each other, no matter if they previously played in the regular season.

Rematches in championship games happen frequently in other sports.  The 2008 Super Bowl was a rematch between the Patriots and Giants and no one seemed to mind crowning the Giants as champions even though they lost the first game.  The Rams-Patriots Super Bowl rematch in 2002 didn’t have fans and media calling for a “split-championship.”  The 08-09 NCAA basketball champion Tar Heels thumped Michigan State earlier in the season, but this did not threaten the sanctity of their title game. 

Yet, in this year’s college football championship game, “nothingwill be determined” by this rematch which also renders their November 6^th game to mean “absolutely nothing,” if you follow the majority of the media.  Statements like these are absolutely absurd and grossly inconsistent since they never use this same rhetoric when covering other rematches.  The only reason the media is hyping this particular event as meaningless is to follow in line with the anti-BCS crowd.  LSU and Alabama ended up in the top two spots in the BCS and that is who should be playing in the championship game, regardless of whether or not they met in the regular season.  This is how it should always be; the goal is for the best two teams to play each other and it would be senseless to deprive the sport of a great matchup simply because the two teams played each other during the regular season.

Thankfully, there are some cooler heads out there who realize that this should be an outstanding game between two classically great teams.  And it is worth nothing that Oklahoma State had their chance to face LSU, had they not lost to a 6-6 Iowa State team.  This situation isn’t like 2003 when a team legitimately got screwed; this scenario is simply controversial yet justifiable.  The BCS, like college football, has always been controversial when it comes to the final rankings.  No need for the outcry in this instance.