I know that this is not stated in the "rules" of the BCS, but the voters were given more weight in the formula a few years back so they could correct situations like this where the computers fucked it up.
In the coaches poll, OSU is ranked #5, and is behind Va Tech and Stanford. In that poll, LSU has 1,475 points, Alabama 1,411 points, and OSU 1,245. In the Harris Poll, OSU is ranked #5, and is behind Stanford and Va Tech. LSU has 2,875 points, Alabama 2,756 points, and OSU has 2,414. Those two polls comprise 66% of the selection process. So, if you're saying the computers are total bullshit, and the voters are the correction to that bullshit, then cool. But if you're saying the computers should be right, at this point, 4 out of 6 computer models used for placement put Alabama ahead of OSU as well. But the computers, as a whole, only have 33% say in placement anyway. Overall in the BCS, Alabama is at .9551 and OSU is at .8712. That is a pretty sizeable gap.
Who's to say bama would have been better than 9-3 in the Big Texas conference anyway? It's considered the best conference this year, and the weekly grind may have been too much for bama to come out unscathed. I don't know if bama could beat Iowa State in Ames, but I know for certain that LSU can beat bama in Tuscaloosa.
I don't know if OSU could beat Bama, so how can you definitively say that they are better than Alabama? If ISU could beat OSU, I could just say that Bama would beat OSU. I know that Alabama couldn't beat LSU in Tuscaloosa as well, but that doesn't have anything to do with determining whether or not Alabama is the second best team in the country.
Something else I find interesting is, I bet if LSU and Alabama's roles were reversed, you guys would be saying LSU should get a rematch because they proved in a game so close that they're probably the only ones deserving since it was so close. (Translation: They have the best chance of beating Alabama)