The Case For The Mythical National Championship

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If in 2007 Missouri and West Virginia would have qualified for the BCS Championship game, you would have either a) laughed hysterically, or b) thrown a brick through your television.  My bet is three-quarters of you would have been in a Best Buy the following day.

It was that dangerously close. The Mountaineers were upset by 4-7 Pittsburgh in Morgantown and Mizzou lost for the second time that season to an Oklahoma team that in a month would be pummeled by the Mountaineers.

Think of the progression of events had Missouri and West Virginia won on Dec. 2 of that year:

a)      All the Southeastern Conference schools would have suffered a nuclear winter,

b)      Big XII athletic directors would have cheered “Go…Tigers?”

c)      Big Ten coaches would have melted down like the witch in The Wizard of Oz,

d)      The Pacific Ten would have sent USC to the game anyway hoping it was just a bad dream,

e)      The Atlantic Coast Conference could not have done anything,

f)       The Big East would have still been considered pathetic,

g)      The echoes would have still been sleeping and Utah would have continued to be treated like Cinderella’s step-sisters, and

h)      The television ratings for the BCS Championship game would have been lower than yet another Bob Saget Nick at Night marathon.

The Bowl Championship Series has been flawed since 1998, which, by the way, is the first year it opened shop.  

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