Tonight one of the greediest and corrupt organizations in American sports will unveil who'll be invited to the 5 BCS games. And as usual tonight's unveiling will be head scratchingly stupid. I ask you as one college football fan to another, please don't watch tonight's BCS show. I won't ask you to skip their games. But please don't watch tonight's show. That is unless you want to see self congratulatory idiots show off their lack of logic about the BCS.
I don't think even the most ardent Oklahoma St. fan thinks they'll be playing in the BCS Championship Game. I'm not saying whether they deserve it or not, I'm saying I don't think it's going to happen. The BCS for some reason seems to want a rematch of Alabama-LSU. I don't know why as I don't even know if I would watch that game. I didn't watch their first matchup and I don't really want to see another 9-6 five field goal game. I mean defense is great, but it's the offensive battles that creates the excitement.
I do think LSU deserves to be in the BCS Championship game. They are 13-0 and have gone through the battering ram schedule of the SEC. But the team that will play against them in the National Championship Game, how do you differentiate between them and OSU? Well for one I don't think you do or can. Again this is why we need a playoff system.
The BCS criteria to play in a BCS Bowl game is the 6 champions of the 6 AQ conferences and 4 other teams. Obviously representing the SEC will be LSU, no argument here. Representing the Big 10, that will be Wisconsin. No argument here, other than they aren't real exciting to watch. It looks like they'll be playing the Pac 12 Champion Oregon. That game will be a good contrast between a high scoring offense and a tough defense. I'd much rather watch that game than a boring SEC rematch. Then representing the Big 12 will be the OSU Cowboys. They'll either be playing in the BCS Championship Game or another BCS Bowl.
So I agree with all four of those Champions deserving the BCS Bowl games. But here's when the wheels fall off the car. Who is the ACC champion, it's the 10-3 Clemson Tigers. How does a three loss team get a BCS bid? Because they are the champion of one of the so-called AQ leagues, the ACC. Like the Big East it's debatable whether they are worthy of an automatic qualifying team.
Let's break Clemson's schedule down a little. They won their first 8 games but then lost 3 of their last 5 games. That includes being destroyed by 7-5 NC State 37-13 and 10-2 South Carolina 34-13. They also lost to Georgia Tech by two touchdowns. How does a team that lost 3 of their last 5 games by two touchdowns or more and were outscored 122-112 in those 5 games deserve a BCS Bowl? The honest answer is they don't. Even if there was a 8 team playoff, I suggest they weren't worthy of that. And please don't tell me how good the ACC is, it isn't. They have such weaklings as 2-10 Maryland, 4-8 Boston College, 6-6 Wake Forest and 7-5 North Carolina State.
Again the less than inspiring strength of the ACC again highlights the inequity of the BCS. Of course when your criteria is human voting and computer analysis how close can you come to determining a true champion? Again there needs to be a college football playoff!
I'm not going to break down the questionable toughness of Big East teams. I've already mocked that pathetic football conference several times. This is the same conference that will be down to 5 teams in 2014 unless they add someone. TCU briefly joined before getting a chance to jump to a real conference and quickly left to the Big 12. BYU was asked to join the Big Least but thankfully said "no". Now the last I heard Boise State has also been approached, but so far haven't joined. They want a Western Division of the Big East so they won't have to travel as far. But again why join a dying league and how are they still worthy of their AQ status? They aren't but again that's yet another of the BCS inequities.
So how is the Big East Champ going to be picked? It's a three way tie and who ever finishes highest in the BCS rankings will get the BCS bid. So what teams are those. #23 West Virgina who finished 9-3. Unranked Cincinnati who also finished 9-3. Then lastly and least the 7-5 Louisville Cardinals. Again the BCS isn't about the best of the best, it's about being in the immoral BCS.
Since some teams get the benefit of the membership in the AQ leagues and thus get undeserved spots in the BCS, as you guessed someone is getting screwed. Who is that? Obviously it's not USC, they are on probation and shouldn't be considered. They shouldn't be considered in spite of being one of the best teams in the nation.
The following rankings are from today's AP poll. Where will #4 Stanford go? Only two teams from one league can get BCS bids so where does #7 Arkansas go? Is #12 Michigan going to get a BCS bid? I'd argue whether Michigan deserves a BCS bid, although they deserve one more than either Clemson or West Virginia.
Do you notice two teams that I haven't mentioned. Yes although #8 Boise State is 11-1 and their only loss is to the #16 Horned Frogs, they probably won't get an invite to the BCS. One of the best teams will be invited to a much lesser bowl and will roll a less than great team. Boise State is doing all they can to upgrade their conference affiliation, but for now are stuck in the woeful MWC. As they are in a non-AQ league that means they will get screwed.
However TCU should qualify for it's third straight BCS bowl. Now how does the #16 Horned Frogs get invited to the BCS whereas #8 Boise State doesn't? It's due to the fact that TCU is the MWC conference champ. That's the first requirement. They also have to move into the BCS Top 16. They should be able to do that as they are #16 in the AP Poll and the AP poll includes the probation punished Trojans. They also have to finish ahead of the Big East Champion. That last requirement is the easiest of them all.
TCU started out slowly only winning 3 of their first 5 games. They lost to the Robert Griffin fueled Baylor Bears 50-48. In a mystifying result they also lost to SMU 40-33 in overtime. After losing to SMU, TCU reeled off 7 straight victories. Those victories included defeating the now 9-3 and bowl bound BYU Cougars and beating at the time #5 BSU in Boise. I'm positive that Clemson isn't more deserving of a BCS bowl bid than TCU. Although both teams should be getting BCS bowl bids.
One of the criteria the NCAA selection committee uses for March Madness is how well a team plays in their last 10 games. Obviously you couldn't do that in college football, but maybe you can base a team on their final 7 games. But then again what do the people behind March Madness know? They only have the most exciting sporting event each year. Can you imagine how exciting a March Madness like playoff for college football would be? Reason 7 million and 4 to get rid of the BCS now!
Again all these questions would go away if we only had a 8 team or a 16 team playoff. We demand a playoff now!
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