BCS Title Exposed As Irrelevant, Yet Again, Now By Gator-Fan Officials

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So here's the thing in case you haven't been paying attention to college football for the past—I dunno—decade.

People don't like the system or the way it works.  They don't like it because someone is consistently getting the shaft and it ultimately proves nothing.

At the beginning of the season, a group of teams are designated as "the best" and thrown into the top-25 before a single snap takes place.  Then those teams take it upon themselves to play a couple of out-of-conference games against a few record-padders before going into their conference schedule.

The problem with this?

It tells the football world nothing about strength of conference—and therefore strength of schedule.  It is entirely possible that a three-loss team is better than an undefeated team in another conference, but there is no way to prove it.

The system is designed to ultimately revert to record, even though record may say absolutely nothing about which team is better.  And when the season ends, only two teams get a shot at the big title.  How does that make sense?

So this week, as anyone who watched the Florida-Arkansas game over the weekend knows, Florida was handed a victory by the officials.  It was so bad that the crew was just suspended by the SEC for several "phantom" calls against Arkansas on Florida's winning drive.

The appropriate conclusion must be drawn somewhere along the line that Florida would not (not necessarily, could not) have won the game without help from the officials.

And when some calls start coming back as bogus, and you look at the 10 penalties against Arkansas throughout the game—whereas there were only three against Florida—you essentially have to question every call made by that crew.

I'm not much for conspiracy theory, but it is pretty easy to see that the SEC is the biggest benefactor of what happened.  Florida and Alabama meeting as undefeateds in the SEC Championship game could mean two SEC teams in the title game, and certainly means two teams in a BCS bowl game.

If you thought college football was about body paint and alumni reunions, get a grip, because it is a business just like the NFL.

Thats why the players get free educations.  Thats also why the BCS system still exists.

You think these crazy old guys just love their tradition?  They love the money their conference rakes in when they get teams into big money games at the end of the year.  They know the system is broken.

And so does the SEC.

Whether it was intentional or not, I can guarantee you the SEC "Commish" would be on the phone thanking that suspended crew for their service.  Notice they were suspended, not suspended without pay.  They're on vacation drinking martinis in Miami while we're wondering what the hell is going on.

Do I blame Florida?  Not really.

I mean it is pretty obvious that the only just thing for them to do is forfeit the win to declare the game a draw.  It can't be rectified in retroactively, and their program director should take responsibility for the fact that they didn't win.

Everyone else in the country knows it, which is why the AP didn't rank Florida No. 1.

The BCS poll did, showing again that the "computers" know more than everyone.  How does that work?

I learned in third grade that my computer is an impressive machine that does what I tell it to do.  So someone has rigged it for Florida or the SEC to be on top.

This year, I can make a case for six or seven teams to be the best in the country.  A lot of that has to do with the fact that there is no definable "best conference" anymore.

Only two of them will play in the BCS Championship.

You do the math, what does that mean?

It means the BCS proves nothing, satisfies no one, and doesn't belong in college football.  But it won't end until some really, really annoying old people die off.  Or we boycott.  I'll let you choose for yourself.

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