There exists, in the tiny crawlspace sandwiched between conjecture and opinion, indisputable knowledge of fourteen football games played by LSU. These fourteen testaments of your team cling to the a priori tenants of football as defined by the NCAA college football rulebook. There are sixty minutes in a game. Touchdowns are worth six points, after which an extra point may be kicked or a two-point conversion may be tried. Field goals are worth three points. Safeties are worth two points. Ad nauseum. The team with the most points at the end of the event is declared the winner. This was your season. The game is decided on points awarded during the game. NOT which conference you’re from. NOT how many wins you have during the season. NOT how good “experts” think your team is. NOT how much talent will be drafted by the NFL. NOT even by your standing in the polls, the BCS or the AP writers. Everything outside the game itself is political. Conference affiliations are political. Division I requirements are political. Polls are political. Bowls are political. All systems that subsist outside the normal regions of the game itself and are subject to any type of interpretations whatsoever are political. The SEC is a organization of college football teams who politically decided that they would associate themselves. They have no requisite ties to each other than some piece of paper. They created divisions within that organization called “East” and “West”, which were decided upon politically. They devised a mathematical system so they could award a championship to its members, but without the context of the organization who granted such title, it would be worthless. And even though the “system” is fair, it is political insomuch as it does not operate within the actual rules of the game of football. It simply compensates a team who accomplished the most during their season according to their criteria. LSU did not play all 120+ teams who have been given Division I status. Their championship is extrapolated and interpreted through a series of political systems and thus, is itself political. LSU beat 13 teams, not one of whom was Florida. Your interpretation of “best” is political, not a fact. You reach that erroneous conclusion based on systems completely independent of the game Florida and LSU played in. The FACT is that when Florida played LSU, both teams competed within the rulebook and a factual outcome was awarded. Florida won that game. They won the game on the field; not in some computer formula or on some AP writers desk at 2 in the morning. “Best” is defined by the actual outcome of a football game. Florida “bested” LSU. Ever other argument you can conceive of is in direct relation to a political system that does not apply to the game itself. LSU was better than 13 teams on their schedule, some of whom were apparently really good, but they are certainly not better than Florida or they would have proved it on the field.