The BCS System Frustrates
Really, really, really good teams? Georgia and USC certainly. Throw Missouri in that mix. Oklahoma too. West Virginia for that matter.
Now, can anyone say with anything approaching certainty that LSU or Ohio State is more deserving of the title "national champion" than those schools? Ohio State played no one this year to speak of and managed to lose to Illinois, last seen being disembowled by USC in the Rose Bowl. Course, Ohio State did manage to beat Michigan who just beat Florida, an entrant from the beastly SEC. Missouri ripped Arkansas asunder, just six weeks after Arkansas beat LSU.
The entire thing is a farce.
Make. it. a. playoff.
There is no earthly good reason to keep passing off this current system as acceptable. And don't tell me about how it is not affecting college football's viewing or interest this time of year. My assuredly unscientific sample of "me" tells me that I watched about 49 collective minutes of bowl games yesterday. Maybe I am alone in that, but I am betting not (based, at least, in the lack of Swamp chatter regarding the Bowls yesterday).
By the way, I am betting a Hawaii/Illinois game would have been a lot of fun in something like the Holiday Bowl while a playoff involving good teams unfolded. You can have the stupid bowl system AND a playoff. This ain't rocket science. I don't understand why the powers-that-be make it so.
