Ohio State beat Michigan yesterday earning them a spot in the BCS Championship game over a month from now.
What? You didn't know that the championship game is around six weeks away? Crazy huh?
So what we get to watch in the BCS game are two rusty teams in a game laden with penalties and mistakes because of the long lay off. Instead of using the next few weeks as a playoff, keeping the teams sharp, and determining a true champion we are subjected to meaningless bowl games that any team with six wins, yeah just six wins can get into.
Why so many bowl games? Well yes for the local fans of the team and for the gambling public but mainly for the schools themselves and all of the dollars a bowl game brings in. So now you know why the schools want to protect a broken system.
Keep an eyes on the rankings this week when they are released. You will see Rutgers fall dramatically, far enough to safely be out of reach of one of the big bowl games. The BCS hates small conference schools. The deck is stacked against them just ask Boise State.
I want teams to be able to settle who is the best on the field and not in the polls. There are going to be some deserving teams shut out of the possibility of playing in the big game because a poll or a computer ranking system says they wouldn't be the best game.
That leaves out all of the intangibles though in a football game. The turnovers, the team that is on and playing well, the team that makes all of the crucial blocks and does all the small things that win games.
Some teams go those things better than other teams and on any given gameday any team can win. They just need the chance to play which is denied by a big coalition which demands only two teams can play for the championship.
It is a horrible way to run something that has so much potential to be bigger than it is and it is already pretty big.
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