I'll say right off, I'm pretty unbiased. Pitt has always been my favorite team by a mile, since the 70s, but they have been rendered irreverent. Ohio State had emerged as my second favorite team, a very distant second, but I do like the after living in Ohio for so long.
I told all the Buckeye fans I was watching the game with last night that Alabama would get in ahead of them no matter what happened, and that would be the right choice I thought.
I think they got it right, USC-Ohio St in the cotton bowl is not bad after having endured a 31 point beat down by freaking Iowa.