I haven’t been watching the BCS as much as I normally do, but it looks like Texas is making a real run at getting into the national championship game, which means (this year), the Orange Bowl. The whole bowl system is overly complex and that complexity makes a lot of it meaningless, and the bowl system boils down to a two-team playoff. That’s what it is. Two teams get picked to play in a single game playoff for the national championship.
But a two game playoff only works in things like sudden death golf matches where the final two players have played the same course on the same day. Choosing two teams bease on the…well, fictitious…ranking system is just silly and the NCAA, BCS, and every major media outlet should be ashamed for continuing to support the current system.
Nobody should be legitimizing the BCS system, not the college teams, not the media, not the fans, no one. Millions of fans provide the gobs of cash that flows into the BCS system and the NCAA, and what they get in return is an amatuerish shell game of a championship. I wish the fans had the power to create their own ranking, bowls and invite teams to their own playoffs, outside of the NCAA. Now that would be something.
