College Football Is the Real Fall Classic

After watching nearly the entire World Series, also known as the "Fall Classic," I once again found myself incredibly disappointed.  This year's MLB postseason was one of the worst in recent memory.  While we had the Cinderella story of the Tampa Bay Rays and the excitement of Manny Ramirez, that was about as far as it went.

Speaking of recent memory, the last truly entertaining "fall classic" was seven years ago, when the Arizona Diamondbacks ended the Evil Empire's streak of three world championships. 

Since then we have been fortunate to see a series go five games.  We got lucky and got to see five-and-a-half...or what I like to call a joke. 

I almost found myself missing the big market teams in the postseason. While putting an end to the disparity argument in baseball, the small market Cinderella stories have choked under the big stage each of the past three seasons.

The Tigers went down 4-1, the Rockies missed the memo the series started, and the Rays could never string anything together.

After finally blowing off all the steam I have built up while being so disappointed with baseball's postseason, I can finally get to my main point: The real "Fall Classic" is college football.

College football is as entertaining as it gets over the course of an entire season.  As far as I'm concerned, nothing beats March Madness, but many cannot follow college basketball over the course of an entire season as they can college football.

Why is this? Because it is thrilling week after week, game after game, upset after upset.  Nothing ever gets old.  It's a different story every week, every year, every rivalry game.  So Florida has beaten Georgia 16 out of the last 18 meetings—this year still could be the most important meeting between the two.

There is nothing more thrilling than the college football season, especially the last few weeks.

Remember 2006, when USC just had to show up against Oregon St. to secure another National Championship bid? Whoops! Big mistake there as Oregon St. pulled off one of the most shocking upsets of the decade. 

Recall last season, when West Virginia found themselves one win away from the National Championship. Well, what was an "explosive" offense all season long managed nine points and fell victim to unranked (5-7) Pittsburgh (just happened to be one of those rivalry games).

The BCS may have its flaws, and it certainly does. But one positive the system does provide us with is the importance of every single game.

Had Florida not botched an extra point or a fourth down call against Ole Miss, it's safe to say they would be in the top two in the polls.  However, they are still considered a top team, but they may not even be able to work their way back into title contention.

"PLAYOFFS!? You want to talk about PLAYOFFS?...I want to talk about winning a damn game!"

The beauty of college football and the BCS system is that EVERY game is a playoff game.  There are no walk-through games and no looking ahead—and when a team does look ahead...BAM! Season's over.

I think the excitement of college football has at least earned itself the right of not being bashed by its somewhat flawed system on a daily basis. 

How many weeks out of the year do you find yourself disappointed with every single game?

How many times do you find yourself disappointed with the three playoff games on each night and disgusted by the four or five-game blowout in the World Series?

Maybe we should strip MLB and its postseason of its prestigious title and give it to a sport that deserves it.

That might be a little too harsh, now wouldn't it?