I hate the BCS. It's got to be the stupidest thing going right now in sports.
I know it's been a weird year for college football. Every single week the top 10 has gotten a shake-up. The only unbeaten team right now is Hawaii. It's crazy.
But come on. Ohio State and LSU in the national championship game? LSU was #7 last week in the BCS, and they have 2 losses, but as of yesterday they could win the whole thing? Give me a break. And Kansas in the Orange Bowl and Mizzou doesn't even get a BCS bowl - after Mizzou took Kansas to the woodshed and even the BCS ranks Mizzou higher than Kansas - by TWO places? What the frig?
This whole system needs to be trashed. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, we need a playoff system. Start with 8 teams. It would only take 3 weeks of play for the entire tournament. And non-championship tournament bowls would still be allowed, so everyone could continue making bowl money and cashing in. It's so simple that it's stupid we're not doing it.
For 4 teams, they'd play the same number of games they play now, because they'd be out in the first round - equivalent to playing one bowl game. For 2 teams, they'd play one extra game, and for the championship teams, they'd play two. And even that could be remedied by doing away with the extra throw-away game that was tossed in at the beginning of the season this year for most teams. That extra first game is pointless anyway, so toss it and that would mean that only 2 teams in the entire system would have to play an extra game from what they're playing now.
And you let HUMANS decide who'll be in the tournament. We do it for basketball, baseball and every other freakin' sport. Why not football? Why is a computer involved?
So, there ya go. Texas will be in the Holiday Bowl on the 27th. I will be in Fabulous Las Vegas that day, so I won't be around to go to it, but depending on the time and my traveling companion's interest, maybe I can catch it there. Seems like a good place to watch a sporting event!
3 comments:
Ah, I said 16 teams last night. Single elimination. Much like March Madness.
The whole thing is a crock. Always has been. Okay, except for 2005 (played Jan 2006). That one was FOR REAL!!!!
Damn Girl! You have to go to the Game in Vegas! I'm so jealous now I can hardly stand it!
Have a blast!
BCS is just a way to keep all the money in a few conferences. The traditional powerhouse schools are given special treatment even if they have a crappy team in the current year.
Pretty much every team in a BCS conference can control their own destiny. Win all your games and you are in the NC game. If you are outside those conferences (i.e. Hawaii, Boise State, Utah) then you don't have a prayer even if you win everything and everyone else loses a couple games.
If you are a non-BCS school ranked in the top ten and you lose a close game to a good team, you are guaranteed to drop at least 7 or 8 spots in the polls. If you are a BCS school ranked in the top ten and you lose handily to a lousy team, you will probably only drop a couple places.
It's not fair, but its not designed to be fair. The plain truth is, there is no national champion in college football. You can take a poll in any bar in America after the last bowl game, and whoever is voted number one by the patrons of the bar is just as legitimately the national champion as who the BCS poll decided. Period.
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