Don’t draw too much from tonight

You may have forgotten since it’s been a month since Ohio State and LSU last played a game, but the BCS championship game is tonight.

I’d just like to remind everyone that tonight’s game is just one game. It is a big one and a very important one, but we can’t jump to conclusions about college football based on tonight.

Tonight is not a referendum on Big 10 vs. SEC. Based on today, you can’t anoint one conference as being better than the other one, as happened last year when Florida beat Ohio State.

If LSU wins tonight, I don’t want to see columns tomorrow saying that LSU won because there’s more speed in the South (Does anyone really think that people born in the South have a genetic mutation that makes them run faster?), or because the SEC is stronger overall. This is one game between the two conferences, unfortunately we have a very small sample size, so we really can’t draw broad conclusions based on this game.

The same goes if Ohio State wins — I don’t want to hear that the North has caught up to the South, or that the SEC is overrated based solely on watching tonight’s game. Out of all the major sports, college football is the hardest one to judge teams and conferences, because the sample size is so small.

It’s a big game tonight, enjoy it people. Just don’t deduce conclusions that aren’t there afterwards.