Oklahoma defensive end Frank Alexander, right, moves in to pick up a fumble by Oklahoma State quarterback Zac Robinson, left, in the third quarter of an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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Ever since the newest BCS rankings that pushed OU into the Big 12 Championship were announced Sunday, the only thing the national media have talked about is the fact that Texas beat the Sooners in Dallas.

Do I argue that point? No. But have people suddenly forgotten that Texas lost to Texas Tech? Or that OU absolutely obliterated Tech by 44 points?

It baffles me how one-sided the argument has been, claiming Texas was treated unfairly.

The only disputes I’ve heard have revolved around the Big 12’s manner of breaking a three-way tie. “If this same situation happened in the SEC, Texas would go to the conference championship,” they say.

But is this the SEC? No, and everybody knew how the tiebreaker would be decided all season. To cry foul about it now is futile.

Texas fans clearly knew this was how things would turn out. Why begin a Facebook group, make signs and fly a plane over Stillwater if they thought the Longhorns’ performance on the field would be enough to qualify them for the Big 12 Championship?

Texas controlled its own destiny, and was unable to beat a supposedly inferior team. The Longhorns had a tough schedule before facing Tech, but that is not an excuse.

For all the proponents of a playoff system, for a team to win the national title it would have to beat three of the eight best teams in the nation. Tech was simply a better team the day it played Texas.

None of the teams in the Big 12 earned the right to complain about being slighted by the system. They all could have avoided this fate by winning their games, but they didn’t.

Any three-way tie is difficult to break and essentially will leave at least one deserving team on the outside looking in.

OU’s full body of work has been more impressive. Both teams have one loss, so the higher-ranked team should be determined by the quality of its opponents and the quality of its wins.

Texas’ non-conference schedule was vastly inferior to OU’s. The Longhorns played Florida Atlantic, UTEP, Rice and Arkansas. None of those teams are ranked, and only Rice even has a vote in any major poll.

Meanwhile, the Sooners soundly defeated Cincinnati and TCU. Both are ranked in the nation’s top 15, and Cincinnati will be going to a BCS bowl.

Yes, I’m aware OU also played Chattanooga and Washington, both awful teams. But Chattanooga was only on the schedule because LSU backed out and Washington was good when OU scheduled it. Texas scheduled four bad opponents to OU’s two.

We have always known that losing early in the season is better than losing late. And looking good late in the season has always made a huge difference. OU lost first and manhandled its last four opponents, scoring at least 60 points in all four games.

The bottom line: The resolution to this situation was never going to please everyone. The system may be inherently flawed, but in this case the right team is playing for the Big 12 Championship.