This will be a rarity, but.....

I really can't go without saying something. I won't say anything about sports here at all. There are 5 million other places that specialize in that subject, and frankly, it's not important enough to spend a lot of time writing about. I am, however, someone who follows 3 sports pretty closely- those being baseball, English Premier League soccer, and college football. The latter is once again proven to be an utter and complete farce, and that is simply saddening.

Anyone familiar with the BCS knows what I mean. This system was supposed to eliminate the yearly disputes over which school was the national champion, and has failed beyond all comprehension. I can, in all honesty, remember one or two times that it produced a champion that just about everyone could agree on- and this year will NOT be one of them. In fact, they're matching up 2 teams (supposedly numbers one and two) that are neither deserving of better than a number 8 or 9 ranking. Louisiana State has 2 losses, both in overtime. That shows without much question that they can't produce when the chips are down and the pressure is highest. Then we have Ohio State, a team who muddled through the easiest schedule in the history of number 1 teams with a barely concealed incompetence, dispatching such powerhouses as Youngstown State, Akron, and Minnesota on their way to getting handily crushed by Illinois (the score was close, the game wasn't even a contest). Beyond that, we have a Kansas team who was beaten throroughly by Missouri being chosen ahead of the Tigers for a BCS bowl. We have an undefeated team in Hawaii who is relegated to playing for about 6th or 7th place in the Sugar Bowl- and this is the main issue I have. it has happened 4 times in recent years (Hawaii this year, Boise State twice, Utah once) and it is simply unacceptable.

Did Hawaii play a killer schedule? No. Neither did Ohio State- the Big Ten is no better than the WAC or MWC this year, and is very likely one of the 2 or 3 weakest conferences in the country. The majority of the teams are just barely mediocre, and the major conference argument doesn't hold water. What the Warriors did, that NO ONE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY CAN CLAIM, is won every game. So what if it took some gritty comebacks and overtime heroics to get it done? 12-0 is 12-0, and to be cut out of playing for a championship because the system is too stupid to realize that means something is just not acceptable. Every other team in the nation choked and should have that chance taken away from them, and that didn't happen- the system does NOT work, it never has, and it never will. I give up, and just finally have to admit it's all pointless and illegitimate, leaving one question to be answered: Why bother?

I don't think I will any more.