You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™
The college football National Championship?
Can anyone say playoffs?
LSU kicked the crud out of Georgia, pasting them 42 -10. When it was over, the dogs were getting done doggy style in front of a national tv audience that got to see a mediocre NFL team playing college football.
LSU beat everyone put in front of them, nationally ranked or not. They play college football with a bunch of defensive guys who will be playing on Sunday.
LSU decimated everyone, but Alabama who they beat by a field goal in OT. 9-6 is not exciting, but it’s hard to argue the defensive battle that it was.
LSU is a no brainer. They are the best team and they belong in the title game.
The football world gets murky after that. There are a bunch of teams with one or two losses who can say they belong in the big show.
Sunday night, the BCS voted that Alabama will play LSU again. Many people don’t want to see this rematch of the 9-6 slug fest from earlier this year.
I heard one guy say “the ratings for this broadcast are gonna suck. Nobody wants this.”
Many say Oklahoma State is the team that should play. They score points like a pin ball machine set on fire. They made a definitive case this weekend by Rocking Bedlam, tearing down the goal posts, leading the league in ambulances called to the field.
Oh and by the way, they destroyed in state rival Oklahoma 44-10.
OK State’s only loss is to an Iowa State team and many say the pokes lost because they were mourning the loss of 2 women’s basketball coaches in a plane crash.
ESPN’s Robert Smith says the Crimson Tide is the number two team in the country. He says it comes down to wins and losses and who they played and how they won and what color underarmor they wore.
Blah blah blah.
He says between OK St and Bama, the Tide’s body of work is slightly better.
This is where the BCS sucks. You have to be a bean counter to know who should play whom. You need to file a 401K and a W-2 and while you’re at it, a BCS championship ballot.
Both teams are 11-1. Bama lost to #1 LSU. OK State lost to Iowa State, a relative nobody on the road.
Bama did’t even win its conference. How can a team that didn’t win its conference play for the national title some argue?
And then there are wins vs top ten teams. OK STATE has 2 and Bama has Zero.
It’s ridiculous that there is no playoff. Just lace em up and play the game. That’s the way they do it in Pop Warner and that’s the way they should do it college.
Who is to say that Oregon wouldn’t get hot and win it all? Why not give Boise state a chance? Clemson is hot again too. I sure wouldn’t want to play a pissed off USC.
I hate the BCS. I hate the computers and the human polls. I want the teams to get on the field and grind it out. At the end, the two best teams will play and the obvious, and unadulterated national champion will emerge.
The reason they don’t play?
I’ve never heard a good argument. College presidents say their “student athletes” would have to play longer and sacrifice their education. Some say it would jeopardize the bowls and only reward a handful of teams in the playoff.
Don’t kid yourself, it’s about the money.
The bowlS drum up a lot of money. So would a play off.
Sooner or later someone has to put up or shut up and just make it happen.
LSU vs Bama.
coming to a disgruntled nation near you.
And that is crazy.