Sometimes there’s so much going on in the world of sports, you just can’t write about one game, one team, or even one sport. You have to attack it all, with a whimsical, dart throwing philosophy.
Although baseball is my true love, I always enjoy the sporting season right before Thanksgiving. Baseball is in free agent frenzy, with the winner of the previous season a distant memory and the prospects for next spring front and center. What big stars will relocate, what teams will make big splashes, what will the winter meetings bring?
Meanwhile, the NBA and NHL are just reaching the quarter mark of their respective regular seasons, and with that comes a certain level of retrospective analysis; what teams look loaded, what teams are on the fringe, and what teams are already talking about next year’s projected draft stars?
And, of course, what would the pre-Thanksgiving sports season be without the mother of all talking points, the Hurricane Katrina of the athletic landscape: the BCS.
Ah yes, college football; the one sport that leaves me thirsting for a system that actually gives the average fan some semblance of closure at season’s end. No seriously though, Obama said it himself; cut the crap, let’s get a playoff system in place already.
And with that, I give you my hodge-podge sports rundown…
1. Here’s to rooting for Oklahoma and Florida from here on out. Why? Well, if OU beats Texas Tech this Saturday, and UF triumphs over ‘Bama in the SEC title game, then all BCS haters will have the perfect storm brewing.
Just dream with me here for a second. If OU and UF win those two games, then the college football landscape will have six one-loss teams (count ‘em, six!) with a legitimate claim to the BCS title game: Alabama, Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, USC, and Florida.
How would the BCS possibly sort that out? Well, it would probably have to look at the quality of the loss for each team. Except in this case Florida, who would be coming off a victory against then-No. 1 Alabama in the SEC title game, has the worst loss of the six, a home defeat at the hands of now 6-4 Ole Miss. Texas lost to Tech, OU lost to Texas, and assuming my dream comes true, Tech will have lost to Stoops’ boys. How does that Big XII quagmire sort itself out?
comments (0) write a comment »
write a new comment
This article has no comments.