Scrap The BCS
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We are entering that great time of year when the end all of end all college football arguments just starts to heat up. That’s right, the BCS talk.
A plethora of one undefeated teams still remain. A lot of great one loss teams are out there. The conference match-ups are starting to hit full bore and the host of rivalry weeks are soon to be upon us.
Phooey!
I for one am proposing that we totally re-vamp the BCS program. What is that you ask? Johnny you need to get in line with countless of hundreds if not thousands of others that argue the same thing.
Nope, I propose we scrap the whole shooting match and go back to the bowl tie in agreements that each conference used to have pre-BCS.
Let’s look at the facts. The BCS is driven by two factors … and no they are not determining who is ultimately the most deserving national champion each year. Heck most years we can’t even agree who should be playing in the game.
Factor one is pure and simple greed. Greed of the NCAA, greed of the sports stations such as ABC/ESPN and CBS who cover the majority of games. ( I am not including FOX in the argument as they only have only covered the BCS games the last few years and frankly their telecasts are painful at best to watch)
Factor two is the perception that this alignment actually settles something. That it actually does determine the best and most worthy team at the end of the year.
I miss the by gone days of long ago, before many of you who likely read this blog were even following college football. In those “olden days” each conference had multiple negotiated terms to send their teams to certain bowl games. It still works much the same way today for the non-bcs games.
What this accomplished each and every year was exciting and epic games on New Year’s day. You didn’t have to “hang around” until January 7th to see if your team was going to win.
The best part of the “old way” was the scenarios were impossible to predict. Since I am a Husker at Heart … lets take 1982. When due to a series of upsets earlier in the day, the Clemson Tigers and the Cornhuskers found themselves playing on New Year’s Day night in the Orange Bowl for all the marbles. This could not have happened today, and it lead for great drama and excitement. Heck this same scenario played out countless times in the early years of the television bowl era …
Was it so wrong?
The BEST part of college sports is the water cooler talk, the speculation. The Horned Frogs could beat Florida because of so and so….the ol’ My Dad is Bigger than your dad argument … that is where the true passion and fun of college football exists.
So let’s jump back up the rabbit hole, throw out the man behind the green curtain, and we just get an instant replay and see that the wrong call was made on the field?
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October 27th, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
Johnny, I agree with you 100%. We’ve all heard the cons against the current BCS system so it doesn’t need to be regurgitated, but for me the entire hoopla is BORING. There’s a 99.9% chance that the SEC will place 2 teams in the available BCS Bowl games, of course one of these being the National Championship Game.
This is the reason NCAA football holds little interest for me. I follow and support my university and conference (non-BCS), but have no interest in the BCS conferences. All bullsh*t. That’s why I follow the NFL.
I do remember the good old days of yesteryear. Unfortunately money talks. And that will never change.
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October 27th, 2009 @ 9:43 pm
Didn’t Nebraska sneak into the BCS title game a few years ago, despite not even PLAYING in their conference title game? That wackiness might be on par with 1982
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