College Football: The Great Exhibition

Make no mistake. Nationally, college football is nothing more than an exhibition.

It’s the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, the MLB All Star Game without home field advantage riding on it.

The Gators are the Globetrotters and the Buckeyes are the Washington Generals.

We have people who insist it is not a mere exhibition, that we are crowning champions. If that’s the case, why was the national championship split in 2003? Sorry LSU, you have to share with USC. Some of us really didn’t like that you and Oklahoma played for all the marbles so we are going to vote someone else as the National Champ.

Chumps. You guys told me this was settled on the field.

Old news? Ask fans of Utah or Texas how the system worked last year.

If Texas and the SEC champ win out, no one else will be considered for the title game. Nice season, Cincinnati. Hey TCU, I always liked your nickname—the Horned Frogs, that's cute. Thanks for beating Oregon in your opener, Boise State, I look forward to some of your trick plays in your exhibition bowl game.

If we are going to keep it subjective, let’s go back to the old system when everyone played on Jan. 1. At least we didn’t have this pretend championship system in place.

And for the love of everything holy, don’t schedule tough out-of-conference opponents. We only crown '72 Dolphins-type of success. One-loss teams need not apply. My bad, you said you are from the SEC—this way please.

We are not interested in Jimmy V’s '83 Wolfpack or the Miracle on Ice happening in college football. The Hail Mary that Doug Flutie threw against Miami 25 years ago was good enough.

Texas Tech Coach Mike Leach proposed a 64-team playoff. He suggested cutting the regular season back to 10 games to facilitate this. He also mentioned he is not allowed to have sharp objects in his office. His idea makes a lot more sense than the current system.

So you can’t cut back the regular season? This is the SEC schedule from last week:

LSU at Alabama
South Carolina at Arkansas
Vanderbilt at Florida
Tennessee Tech at Georgia
Eastern Kentucky at Kentucky
Furman at Auburn
Memphis at Tennessee
Northern Arizona at Mississippi  

Five games involving non-conference cup cakes. Here’s a crazy idea: let’s not play those. I know Northern Arizona really wanted to see the Grove, but hey, buy a ticket.

For me, the plus-one solution to me translates into a plus-why? Either do it right or not at all.

The whole season is as subjective as the gymnastics in the Olympics. Florida, Good job on the pommel horse, you got a 10.0! Sorry TCU, the Lithuanian judge gave you a 9.1 because you did that hop thing after the Triple Lindy.

However, he wanted you to know: If the Russian gymnast breaks his other leg, you might win the rings.

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