The 2004 BCS-Sucks.com Playoff Bracket is out.

We would have had 3 great first-round games of conference champions today (say, at Noon, 3:30pm, and 7pm). Instead we had an empty Saturday to sit and anxiously await the all-important New Orleans Bowl on Tuesday. (Sigh.)

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BCS ends CFB regular season with one big mess.

MORRISTOWN, New Jersey (Ticker) - As expected, a perfect regular season was not good enough for Auburn. Unlike California, the Tigers have a lucrative bowl game awaiting them.

Southern California and Oklahoma finished 1-2 in the final Bowl Championship Series poll released Sunday, meaning the Trojans and Sooners will meet for the national championship at the Orange Bowl in Miami on January 4.

Auburn (12-0) started the season 17th in the media poll and 18th in the coaches' poll, and despite becoming the first team in six years to go unbeaten in the rugged Southeastern Conference, the Tigers never were able to completely catch up to the Trojans and Sooners, who began the campaign 1-2 in both polls and finished there in the poll that matters most.

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