Shut up whiners, this was a great game

Already the whiners have started.

After complaining all season that teams weren't playing defense against the likes of Oklahoma and Florida, now suddenly the complaint is that there wasn't enough scoring in the game.

Make up your mind, whiners.

Do you want to see defense or not? Because defense means lower scoring games, like this one. 24-14 isn't the high-powered score you see when Oklahoma beats Baylor or Florida crushes Kentucky, but it's certainly better than Oregon State vs. Pitt (a 3-0 final).

Would they rather have seen a rout like USC over Oklahoma in January of 2005? Or like Ohio State suffered the last two years? Those had scoring—most of it by only one of the two teams involved in the game. Is that better?

Or were the whiners spoiled by the USC-Texas game in 2006, and the Miami-Ohio State game of 2003? Sorry, you can't have candy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Of course the whiner in the link above, Jim Litke, was simply using this game as part of his argument for a playoff. Whether you want a playoff or not, bashing this game is not necessary. How would a playoff ensure that the title game was exciting? Answer: it wouldn't. Would it have matched two better teams in the final? Maybe, depending on who you think are the best. It's also possible two much lesser teams could have made it, by luck.

So take your playoff propaganda somewhere else. It has nothing to do with this game, the clock stoppages and awkward timeouts that marred the contest. Nor does it have anything to do with the four touchdown passes, four interceptions, and numerous big-time defensive plays that the game featured, aspects that true fans of the game can appreciate.

But whiners can only whine. And we can only shut out their noise, as well as any other arguments they're trying to promote along with their whining.