The best BCS-era college football teams that never played for a national championship

The conversation surrounding college football these days is all about whether or not an expanded playoff is the right move for the health of the sport. Whether the College Football Playoff expands to 24 teams or not remains to be seen, but as a traditionalist, I miss the days of the BCS, when only two teams played for a national championship at the end of the season. It was brutal for a large majority of the country, where one loss put all your team's hopes and dreams on life support, but it mad