MISSOURI NEW #1 IN TOPSY-TURVY COLLEGE FB SEASON: What kind of season is it when Missouri is your #1 team?

As is now shapes up, your 2008 BCS Championship Game is looking to be the Tigers from Columbia against the Mountaineers from Morgantown. Bet the organizers in New Orleans are just thrilled about a Missouri-West Virginia national title matchup.But there’s still the little matter of one more game for each team. West Virginia should have an easy time hosting the Dave Wannstedt-led Pittsburgh Panthers. And Missouri gets to meet Oklahoma again in the Big 12 Championship.

If either team falters, expect 3rd-ranked Ohio State to return to the title game, hoping to do better than last year’s 41-14 embarrassment against Florida.If *both* teams happens to lose next Saturday, could #4 Georgia or #5 Kansas back their way in for the national championship, even though neither team even won their own conferences?

Don’t think it couldn’t happen. In 2001, Nebraska didn’t even win the Big 12 North, yet was chosen to take on Miami for the BCS title. And in 2003, Oklahoma lost to Kansas State in the Big 12 title game, yet faced LSU for a shot at the BCS trophy.

With the way #1 and #2 teams have fallen flat like Bill Callahan’s respectability around Lincoln, anything’s possible at this point.