Ironically, it took a little muddying of the waters to actually make the BCS picture a bit clearer. Despite the top two teams in the BCS standings losing on the same Saturday for the first time in 5 years last weekend, the BCS bowl games are one big step closer to actually sorting out who's playing who and where.

With one week left in the regular season, I took a little look-see at the reality of which teams will be going to which BCS bowl. Based on the now-narrowed possibilities, here are the matchups that I'd like to see come the beginning of 2013; hopefully the football gods are reading this.

BCS National Championship: Notre Dame vs. Alabama. Two strong defenses, two offenses that can make the occasional big play to win games. On paper, this game looks very similar to last year's game between LSU and Alabama – and once again, I'd give the edge to the Crimson Tide. Still, it would be fun for all the Irish haters out there to see how they'd stack up against the best team from the best conference … and the one team that beat 'Bama this year had a dual-threat QB, just like ND.