The BCS is in a real dillemma with the Rose Bowl, the supposed national championship which marquees undefeated, Big East Champion Miami and recently humiliated, Big 12 #3 Nebraska. Of the four possible scenarios, only one favors the current BCS system:
1) Miami wins big: If Miami wins big, they are the consensus #1, undefeated champions. No controversy there. But, like last year, Colorado and Oregon can claim that they never had a chance and that Nebraska should have never played in the title game. Florida St. showed on the field that they didn't belong in the same stadium as Oklahoma.
2 and 3) Nebraska wins (big or small): If Nebraska wins, then they are the College Poll #1. However, the AP will probably crown the winner of the Fiesta Bowl as the #1 team, leaving us with the exact same pre-BCS situation. Ironically, Nebraska won the College Poll title, but Michigan got the AP poll. This defeats the whole purpose of the BCS, which was to have an undisputed winner. Even a thoroughly convincing win over Miami can't erase two facts about Nebraska: 1) They lost by 26 to Big 12 Champion Colorado in the last game of the season. 2) They finished #3 in their conference, ineligible to play in the Big 12 title game.
4) The only scenario which favours the BCS is for Nebraska to play a great game, and lose. This proves that Nebraska belonged in the game, and that Miami is concensus #1. Even then, the Fiesta Bowl Champion will still have claim that they could have beaten Miami, and should.
It is an utter disgrace that Nebraska is playing in a BCS bowl game, let alone in the Rose Bowl. Texas finished better than them, having beaten Colorado in the regular season, winning their division (which Nebraska failed to do). This penalizes conferences for holding title games, which are the most exciting part of the college season. Texas and Tennessee would have been ahead of Nebraska in the polls if they didn't have to play the title game, and the eventual conference champions were kept from the Rose Bowl because of earlier loses. In other words, Nebraska was better off not making the conference title game, while Texas and Tennessee were both kept out of BCS games because they played tough season ending games that they had worked hard to play in.
There are only two solutions to the BCS: 1) Forget about having a national title game and return to the "good ole days" when all that mattered was winning the conference and playing in your traditional bowl game; 2) Scrap the Bowls and put in a 16 team playoff, including all the conference champs and a few at-large teams. The BCS is not long for this earth, as it relies on carefully planned circumstances from keeping it afloat, and has more holes in it than the Electoral College.