Sunday, January 4, 2009

Sports fans deserve better than the BCS

There are many things in this world that are flawed; the price of gasoline, the cost of checking a bag on an airplane, having to pay for cheese on a whopper and then of course the BCS.

I can not continue to speak of how stupid, idiotic and dumb the Bowl Championship Series is. Utah did it again, went undefeated in the regular season and won its BCS game by knocking off Alabama and still will not get recognized as a National Champion. Second time in five years.

Why?

That is the question everyone is asking, except Florida and Oklahoma.

The BCS represents all that is wrong in sports and America, it’s all about money and greed and some guy making his wallet fatter. It makes me sick.

It’s a complex formula that is made to pair up the two best teams in the country for the National Championship, assuming those two teams are from the proper conference with one of them being an SEC team.

First off, the SEC is the most overrated conference, yeah I said it. Contrary to what you all may think in SEC country, God did not create the SEC on the seventh day.

In case you haven’t noticed either, your SEC Alabama team got beat by Utah, the team that should be crowned National Champion.

There are also those people out there that say that the Championship game would not be interesting with a team not from a major conference.

Three out of the last four Championship games have been blowouts, and all four included teams from “Major Conferences.”

In 2004 USC destroyed Oklahoma 55-19, in 2006 Florida ran over Ohio State 41-14 and in 2007 LSU walked over Ohio State 38-24. The only interesting one was Texas and USC in 2005, 41-38 Texas.

So tell that to all the uninteresting teams that make “March Madness” so uninteresting.

Tell that to the NFL, MLB, NHL and every other sports team out there. Because if the American League East has the best two teams in baseball, then they should just play for the World Series. Forget the National League. Same goes for the NFL, forget the AFC because they are not worthy.

To have a Championship game that DOES NOT have at the time the best two teams in the game going head to head is ludicrous.

Who cares if they played well all year long, who cares if they have a tougher schedule, who cares if they are from a conference that is not a big money maker or high profile.

The point is to have a Championship worthy of crowning a champion. Championships should not be second guessed be everyone with questions about the legitimacy.

One of the greatest things about sports is the underdog winning, it’s what this country thrives on. Not two rich schools that have vast amount of resources meeting.

It’s getting to see the USA defeat the USSR in Hockey, or Appalachian State going into the Big House to knock off Michigan, the Patriots coming out of no where to shock the Rams and all football fans.

It’s staying up late and watching the Red Sox beat all odds and knock off the Yankees and then sweep the Cardinals in the World Series, incidentally the Cards were the best team all year long and had the best record. That doesn’t matter in college football though.

Then, two years later the Cardinals, underdogs entering the postseason, defeated the Mets and then the Tigers to win the World Series in a post season they barely made.


Let's not forget about the Tampa Rays in 2008, who actually gave them a shot to win the American League?? Good thing they play the games and have a playoff system.

Sports is about the dramatics, the pageantry the underdog, the heartbreak and the Championships.

Unfortunately, all college football has is the pageantry because some guy is sitting in his big high back chair counting the money he is making because the National Championship is the biggest sham in sports.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Love the article, the BCS will never go away though and the SEC is the best!