You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s Crazy.
The BCS got it right again. By accident. By luck. But it’s right, and that is crazy.
Unless you live on a subway grate with a newspaper for a comforter, you have heard that Oregon crush O-State and Auburn demolished South Carolina.
That sets up the latest game of the century.
#1 Auburn Vs. #2 Oregon.
Cam Newton Vs. LaMichael James
The Ducks Vs. The Tigers.
“It’s not even sunk in,” said Newton, The Auburn QB who threw for a career-best 335 yards and four touchdowns, plus ran for a pair of scores. “I’ve just been living the dream.”
The BCS is also living the dream.
For all it’s detractors, the Bowl Championship Series will see the number one versus number two teams in the finals, yet again.
Still, “WHAT IF” looms on the horizon. People are clamoring for a championship playoff.
What about TCU? The Horn Frogs didn’t lose any games. They are on the outside looking in. Shouldn’t they have been given a chance? A playoff would have settled that question once and for all.
What about one loss Stanford, which plays with a grit put upon them by their intense head coach, Jim Harbaugh. What about Wisconsin which lights up the badger scoreboard like a pin ball machine on speed.
Think these schools would like a playoff?
There are still 35 days till the final game. 5 weeks till the national championship game.
What the hell kind of system takes a 5 week break before the championship?
That would be like the World Series played in January and the Superbowl played in April.
The final round of the Masters? Let’s do it on Memorial Day?
That’s Crazy!
We’ll get a lot of hype for 35 days, but you know what we won’t get? A national championship playoff.
With all due respect to the BCS, it would be so much better for the nation and for college football if they did like every other sport and had a playoff system.
So do I think the best two teams in college are playing at the end of the year? Yes.
But I still don’t like the way they arrive at the decision.
It feels a little dirty, like sitting down with a fortune teller whose reading a ouiji board telling me my future after looking in my wallet.
She may be right, but its crazy.