(Question before I begin sarcastically tearing the BCS to shreds again: Would it really be so hard to take the winners of all six BCS-affiliated conferences, as well as the two highest-ranking non-conference winners, throw them into a bracket, have the whole thing start on January 1st to keep up with tradition...and still have all the other little minor bowls for the 6-6 teams and the 10-2 teams pissed to be left out of the bigger games, so that college football won't lose like a trillion dollars in sponsorship deals? Yes, it would be too hard? Okay. Let's keep doing things the way we have been and pissing off 99% of the country in the process. Done. On with the bashing.)
Yep, looks like another fun and exciting BCS bowl season where only one game actually matters:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=3753351&sportCat=ncf
Look, I'm not saying that the non-championship BCS games won't be fun to watch. USC-Penn State, with JoePa versus Carroll and two of the best defenses in the country squaring off? High entertainment. Little Utah trying to knock off big bad Alabama? Mesmerizing. Angry Texas squaring up against perennial BCS loser Ohio State? I'll be watching.
But, seriously...do any of these games matter at all?
If USC beats Penn State, it's basically, "Yeah! We're the #4 team in the country! Imagine if we'd lost; we'd be like the #9 team in the country! Oh, the horror!" And you can apply that to all the other games as well. None of them, with the exception of Florida-Oklahoma, mean shit in the long run. They'll be entertaining, sure, but in the overall scheme of the college football standings they'll mean just as much as the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. Is that really how you want your playoff system to work?
Why not (come on...WHY NOT???????) have those same enticing matchups, but actually have them mean something instead of just trivial final season rankings? Imagine if Penn State had the ball on the USC 10 with five seconds to go down by six...but a trip to the Final Four was on the line instead of a potential top 7 finish in the BCS standings? Wouldn't that be like a million times more dramatic? January 1st would be like the first day of March Madness, and therefore brackets would be filled out and compared all throughout December, and college football would make millions on the "January Madness" pools that would pop up all over the Internet. Everyone still makes money and everyone's still happy. Why is this such a problem?
Maybe our new president will make sure that gets changed when he eventually takes office. Until then, I'll just have to be content with holding a cold rag to my head on New Year's morning and watching USC crush Penn State by 45 points, earning the #3 ranking in the final BCS standings which will mean essentially nothing. And then my headache will just get worse. Thanks BCS, you've given me New Year's Day migraines and it's only December 9th. Keep it up, idiots.
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