How many of the readers of this blog think “Securities and Exchange Commision” when they see SEC? Yeah, I figure “zero” too.

Anyway, the SEC got its all-Southeastern Conference (imagine the first E in Southeastern is capitalized) BCS championship football game … and we got a horrifically dull event.

Can we agree on this? When two teams from the same conference have played in the regular season … they should never, ever be allowed to meet in the BCS championship game. Forget that neither team scored a touchdown when LSU beat Alabama 9-6 in the regular season. A rematch should not be allowed if they played a 28-27 game.

What should have happened, instead?

Oklahoma State should have been in that game. They won their conference title game, they lost once. Alabama lost once and did not win their conference title game. Didn’t even play in it.

It should have been LSU and Okie State.  (I imagine I can have an “amen” or 10,000 from Loosiana folk, too.) Mike Gundy made a succinct case for The Matchup We Didn’t Get after Okie State won the Big 12 conference championship: “Alabama had their chance; we would like ours.”

Now, having seen Oklahoma State play Stanford, who should have beaten them, I have no doubt that LSU would have throttled the Cowboys. But I would have preferred to see that clash of systems rather than the same old same old from the SEC.

I would rather have watched one team that can pass and score a little, and one team that defends like mad.

To see the final score of the BCS title game, 21-0, is to think Alabama slugged out three touchdowns. An eruption of offense! Instead, in an era where scoring 50 might not be enough to win, Alabama kicked five field goals for their first 15 points, and everyone knows there is nothing like watching some skinny kid kick a 35-yarder to set the blood racing.

The first and only touchdown LSU or Alabama scored against each other in eight-plus quarters, was that run by Alabama with less than five minutes to play. Only took them about two hours of clock time to find the end zone.

That was horrible. That was objectionable. And it was all along. We knew it would be.

Easy rule, BCS. If teams meet in the regular season, they cannot mean in the title game. Period. The end.

Oh, and by the way … a google search for “SEC” brings up Southeastern Conference ahead of Securities and Exchange Commission. All of Dixie must be proud.