The BCS Still Couldn't Get It Right, Even When It Was Handed To Them

They had it in the palm of their hand. They had the teams placed squarely in their lap and the decisions were supposed to be easy. The BCS couldn't possibly screw this up...could they?

As of Sunday afternoon, most of us knew that the National Championship game was a foregone conclusion with Alabama and Texas, but looking at the remainder of the teams in the top eight, it just begged for the best BCS matchups in years.

You had teams like Florida, TCU, Boise State, Cincinnati, Oregon, Ohio State, Iowa, and Penn State. The BCS could do amazing things and put together amazing matchups with those teams. It could be the best bowl season in recent memory.

Instead, the BCS decided that they wanted controversy and leave college football fans stunned.

When the dust settled and the BCS Selection Show came to an end, the one team that got the biggest shaft in this entire mess is TCU. Having to face Boise State for the second straight year after facing them in the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego last year. A game the Horned Frogs snuck away with, 17-16.

This was supposed to be TCU's statement game, this was supposed to be a game where TCU would be able to prove their ability to play with the BCS' "Big Boys".

Prior to the BCS Selection Show, all of the talk had already begun about a possible TCU and Florida match-up. No one thought the BCS could possibly take away that kind of a match-up or take away TCU's chance to prove themselves against one of the best in the country.

But, in typical BCS style, they decided that they knew better than all of those college football fans that look for great match-ups, not what brings in the most money.

Now, just like every year that has passed, the argument for a playoff system has reared its ugly head once again. The BCS continues to say that college football wouldn't be able to figure out how to put a playoff system together, but apparently they haven't seen Yahoo Sports columnist Dan Wetzel's idea because his playoff system looks like a dream set up.

Until the BCS realizes that what their fans want to see has nothing to do with money, this scenario is going to continue to happen. Instead of your "exciting and competetive" match-ups the BCS claims to put together, you'll be seeing boring and overdone.

Sure there will be that one year where you'll have a few good match-ups here and there, but you'll still have those arguments about who deserved to be where.

Those arguments will always be a part of the post season bowl games until a playoff system is put in place. Until then, our arguments are nothing more than hot air.