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Why college football is a joke
January 6, 2009 | 3 Comments
This paragraph perfectly encapsulates why I could hardly care less about college football.
Texas’ victory certainly won’t be enough to earn it a share of a national championship. In fact, undefeated Utah and Southern California were more impressive than the Longhorns during the postseason. The Utes beat Alabama 31-17 in the Allstate Sugar Bowl, and the Trojans defeated Penn State 38-24 in The Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi.
Despite the fact that Texas actually beat Oklahoma, and they wound up with as many losses during the season as same, Texas does not get any consideration for a national championship because their wins were not as impressive as the wins of some other teams.
Are we talking about football or figure skating here?
Why don’t we just go the whole hog and stop basing wins and losses on merely the final score? A panel of five judges consisting of sports writers can watch each game. They will award points on technical merits, innovation, and oh, I guess we can factor in the score. After each game the captains will be led to a booth where they will sit with their coach and wait for the final judges’ score to be posted. Of course we’ll also have to give flowers to each captain – but that’s a minor technical detail.
At the end of the season we can just tally up the scores and determine our national champion.
Really, this is so absurd. I am not a fan of Texas at all, but the way in which college football champions is crowned is incredibly stupid. Utah does not lose a single game all season, and yet they aren’t even considered for the national championship because they don’t play in the “right” conference. Well why don’t we end the charade and simply limit division one to the big six conferences? Heck, let’s just narrow it down to the Big 12 and the SEC.
Some idiot is of course going to say that the mere fact that I am talking about this is evidence that the current system works. Yeah, the entire country thinking the method of determining a national championship is a disgrace is obviously a big positive for the sport.
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Just so long as no one is under the illusion that a “playoff” will make Division I college football any better. In fact, it will ruin it.
Don’t get me wrong, I hate the BCS as much as anyone, but I hate it for different reasons. I prefer the old system with the conference tie-ins to bowl games and at-large bids for teams like Utah, etc., wherein winning one’s conference actually meant something.
Then, after the bowl games are over, I’d just as soon let the AP voters decide the National Champion like they did in the old days. Sure, there were complaints about the legitimacy of voting for a National Champion back in the day, but I don’t remember nearly as much bitching back then as we hear now.
We’ve place too much emphasis on crowning a “National Champion” in college football, and have sacrificed much of the tradition of the game in the meantime. Let’s go back to the way it used to be.
I explained my views on college football a little more than a year ago.
sorry…
playoff would make more sense. You don’t see people complaining about the NCAA basketball championship being unfair, now do you?
“You don’t see people complaining about the NCAA basketball championship being unfair, now do you?”
Sure you do. Ever heard of “bubble teams”? And it’ll be even worse when it comes time to pick the 8 “best” teams in college football to insert into a playoff.
But here’s something you WON’T hear people talk about when it comes to NCAA basketball: the importance of the regular season and of the conference schedule.
College football wasn’t broken before all this BCS nonsense. Any time the “experts” think they’re going to “fix” something, they usually wind up breaking it.
Luckily, all this talk by the “experts” of a playoff is just wishful thinking and will never actually happen.