Every year, sportswriters look for controversy. Since the inception of the much hated Bowl Champiohsip Series, much of it in the late season has centered around worthy teams that were snubbed from their "rightful" place among the BCS elite. And sometimes the writers are right. But sometimes it becomes a matter of Much Ado About Nothing.

This year, the latter was true of the vaunted Oregon Ducks, who viewed their bowl matchup with Oklahoma as not worthy of their time and attention. Perhaps they deemed it so unworthy that they didn't bother to review tape or to (ahem!) practice against the Sooners, who for the last few weeks of their season veered dangerously close to the precipice of avoiding bowl consideration altogether. The Sooners won the matchup, albeit narrowly, against the highly favored waterfowl with a final score of 17-14.

Life will go on and this game will go on to be a mere footnote in the history of college sports. OU fans will disregard it altogether as it is a painful reminder of a season with much promise where so much went wrong. But it serves as a glaring reminder that, despite the fact that the BCS is run by an impersonal computer, human prognosticators can occasionally be just as wrong.