Current College Football Polls Are an Outrage

After watching the majority of the Florida-LSU game, I recoiled in my chair and furiously pounded the power button on my remote control.  The horrifying truth had finally sunk in for me.

Somewhere, Al Davis was watching the game in a state of intense euphoria and even perhaps having a "wet" day-dream.

Try to get that image out of your head. 

College football has become intensely scarring for anyone who believes that there is justice in this world or that there might ever be fairness in sports.

The SEC has a unique style of football.  Its unique in that it is completely brainless barbarism that requires no coaching prowess and ignores the advent of the forward pass.

Urban Meyer and Les Miles have very similar coaching philosophies.  They take one or two guys who are fast and athletic and have them run to the outside.  While that is going on, they tell everyone else on the team to pick an unnecessary battle with a random player.

The inevitable outcome is what I would expect to see in a New Orleans bar if a pair of bucktooth cajuns got in an argument that resulted in a fight.

I don't want to take anything away from Florida, because they are a good football team.  They're a good football team that is in desperate need of a reality check from a series of good opponents, and the only opportunity for that this season is going to be one game against Alabama.

If Alabama doesn't win that, then the season will be over without Florida ever having a real challenge.  They'll march into the BCS title game and face some other team who pollsters randomly picked before the season as #2, who also will have played no one.

I do have something very big against Texas.  I'll try to put it mildly because I don't want to be overtly offensive, so let me just say this: Texas isn't a good football team.

They haven't had a single contest against a good squad this year and they have looked bad in their wins against the no ones they have played.

Colorado is the latest example of that.  Maybe if Dan Hawkins had realized the Longhorns only have two offensive threats, he would have been smart enough to simply double cover Shippley and ride out a win through the second half.

Or he could have told his young quarterback not to try to be what he isn't--a calculating risk-taker.

The Big-12 has dropped off massively as the best team in the conference really was Oklahoma, but with injuries and no offensive line, their talent can't shine through.

I find that extremely sad because it means Texas won't have a single strong challenger in their march toward the big game.

These two teams--Florida and Texas--are currently the hands down favorites to play in the BCS title game.  How can that possibly be when everyone in the country thinks Alabama is playing the best football?

It can be because a group of old white men who are out of touch with reality speculated before a single snap this year that they were the best two teams in the country, and they haven't had to play a football game against anyone of note.

And no, just for reference, LSU isn't anyone of note.  They got bumped up that high in the polls because other teams had lost in real contests and nobody knew who to throw in as filler. 

And when they narrowly escaped a loss to a terrible Georgia team, their position as number four was a lock.

The best two teams in the country are Alabama and Virginia Tech and they have already played.  As far as I'm concerned Alabama should be crowned right now and the whole thing should be over.

By the way, I'm a USC fan.

It is time for everyone to simply boycott the polls.  The BCS system is irreparably flawed.  Utah went undefeated last year playing better teams than Texas will play this year, yet if Texas goes undefeated they are in the National Title game? 

Give me a break.

We'd be better off taking a collection of the fifty most accurate Vegas odds-makers from over the entire season and asking them who would win a sixteen team playoff.  We could then crown that team National Champion, because if anyone has something riding on accurate predictions of talent and ability, it would be Vegas odds-makers.

I'll call my hypothetical system the "Vegas Votes National Championship."

Or you know, we could have the eight team playoff people have been asking for.  That way we might end up with two deserving teams who have had tests on their way to the title game playing each other.

But that idea sounds too sane--in fact it sounds incredibly sane, and strangely fair.

And on a side note, I'll still say this:

The Pac-10 is currently the toughest conference in college football.  The Big-10 might be stronger than people have been saying, too.  Iowa is undefeated having played better teams than Texas.