Get these computer ranking nerds out of their parents' basements. The computers and not the human voters year after year prove how ridiculous the BCS ratings and system are. This year it was impossible to determine one game with two deserving teams, so the BCS could not get it right, and did not get it right.
So based on their schedules and wins, it is pretty hard to argue against Florida and Oklahoma in the BCS Championship game. For the most part I don't have too many qualms about how the media has voted. What is a joke that the system that determines the top two teams in uses is part the poll voted on by coaches who could not possibly have the time to properly rank teams.
Take Tech’s Mike Leach—as a side note, he has a very good reason to be upset that Graham Harrell is not at least invited to the Heisman Ceremony—who voted his "can’t play a lick of defense" Red Raiders number two in the final coaches poll.
As well, a computer poll just two weeks ago had Division I-AA (or is it FBS/FCS garbage) James Madison at number 24, whose lone game against a Division I opponent was a blowout at the hands of the football factory Duke Blue Devils.
That sounds like a completely legitimate system where millions of dollars are at stake.
These are two of the more ridiculous examples just on the surface.
Kudos to Utah for going undefeated and getting some of that BCS money, although that’s not fair to Boise State, who also went undefeated and last time in a BCS bowl beat Adrian "I have the NFL’s single game rushing record" Peterson and the Sooners. You think they wouldn’t mind another shot at a major conference program?
Don’t tell them they don’t belong—they only beat everyone on their schedule, including a win at Autzen Stadium against the Ducks, which by the looks of it now would be a tough game for almost anyone in the country, although if your team wears Nike apparel there, Phil Knight agrees you will run faster!
At least the Big Ten can’t complain about the BCS. Oh wait, they have never needed to complain about the BCS. They have perfected the art of putting a crappy team into the BCS, especially the title game, minus the inaugural Buckeye championship team. Tempe, Arizona: Where pass interference on the thugs from the U happens.
Fast forward to 2008, and the Big Ten has two teams in. A healthy Beanie Wells and explosive Pryor should make this Buckeye team more competitive than in past bowl game appearances. Along with Penn State, they can help redeem the image of the Big Ten as an always slower and overmatched major conference when it comes to playing a big boy from out of conference.
Las Vegas is filled with gorgeous and ridiculous hotels because casinos make lots and lots of money. People go to Vegas, spend lots of money, gamble lots of money, and when they win, chances are a good portion of their winnings is spent right back into the Las Vegas economy. I would say they make sure they are on the right side of all things gambling, including sports.
It's no coincidence that according to Vegas there are clearly four college football teams and then everybody else if they were to put together the lines for the national championship or playoff. It is USC, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and no one else.
Each of these teams would be a double-digit favorite over any other team, with many sources citing USC favored over Florida by less than a field goal in a “Las Vegas Spread” championship. Whether the Trojans have the offensive firepower to score with Oklahoma and Texas is debatable, but their defense would no doubt keep them in any game.
I would like the approach of asking McCoy, Tebow, and Bradford what team they would not want to play. I would be shocked when answered truthfully if the Trojans were not a clean sweep for that answer. Texas is just as qualified, and it’s really a shame we can’t see them play Florida or USC, or at the very least see these four teams play each other.
Good for Oregon, already exposing what Florida will in the BCS Championship, another Big 12 defense.
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