Monday, January 9, 2012

College Football got it right. Leave the BCS alone!

My main grievance is that people forget that these are STUDENT-athletes, but I digress. Every single year the non-championship BCS games are high quality football games, and this year was no different, except for that most of the other bowl games were good, too.

Let's just use the BCS games as an example:

ROSE
Oregon 45, Wisconsin 38
Two high powered offenses, game comes down to the wire.

FIESTA
Oklahoma State 41, Stanford 38 (OT)
Andrew Luck, Jonathan Blackmon, and overtime.

SUGAR
Michigan 23, Virginia Tech 20
Close, even game, controversial ending.

ORANGE
West Virgina 70, Clemson 33
This game was close for throughout the first quarter, but these two teams would not have made it if not for the fact that they won their conferences.

CHAMPIONSHIP
#2 Alabama vs. #1 LSU
Now this game is tonight, and despite the fact that it's a rematch, these two clubs have been far and away the two best teams this entire season, and their game earlier in the season (LSU won 9-6 in OT) was close enough that it really could have gone either way.

Kudos to you, BCS Selection Committee.