The BCS: Responsible for Global Warming?

Sometimes I don't think there is any limit to what the BCS gets blamed for.

AIDS crisis? BCS's fault.

World War II? Yep, BCS again.

Here's a couple of the latest loony stories cooked up by playoff fanatics.

First, the BCS is to blame for choosing Oklahoma in a tie-breaker in the Big 12 South Division.

Never mind that it was the Big 12's decision to use the BCS rankings as a tiebreaker and that the BCS rankings were the fifth tiebreaker, anyway.

In their desperate attempts to discredit the BCS, playoff advocates imply it was the BCS that decided to put Oklahoma into the Big 12 title game instead of Texas.

Funny, though, how we suddenly don't hear Bob Stoops complaining anymore. Those playoff guys get real quiet when their team is ranked first or second, don't they?

An even more ridiculous argument being made is that the BCS is the cause of bad sportsmanship in college football. Supposedly, coaches are running up scores in order to win "style points" from voters.

Of course, nobody bothers to give any examples of this.

It's true that teams with large leads will continue to try to score points even into the fourth quarter, but that's the way it's always been in college football. This isn't the NFL, where if a team gets a 14-point lead you can turn the TV off.

Ask Troy. They were ahead of LSU by 28 points with two minutes left in the third quarter. Troy ended up losing the game by nine points. There aren't many safe leads in college football.

The only time I see teams score meaningless points late in a game is when they put their scrimmage team in. It's natural for the scrimmage team to play as hard as they can and the opposing defense is usually so demoralized that sometimes the scrubs make a couple of scores. So what?

At any rate, if coaches were running up the score for the BCS, why did they take their starters out? They are obviously looking ahead to next year and trying to give their freshmen some valuable game experience, that's all.

I hear next they'll be blaming the BCS for 9/11.