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COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS TO HAVE A PLAYOFF SYSTEM
I consider myself to be a religious follower of College Football. I would rather watch four games every Saturday, consisting of teams I don't consider myself a fan of, than watch my favorite NFL team take the grid iron against their most hated rivals. I truly am a College Football fanatic, ask my wife; she will be the first to acknowledge this.
So why is it that I can love something so much, yet be so frustrated with it? Think of the sport as a project. A massive undertaking by various powers that be, and I just happen to be observing their progress. The more I watch those in charge, the more inclined I am to think, we really don't have the brightest people on the job. They have this beautiful creation, one that has many interested investors. Yet they are destroying the very foundation of that which it was built upon. These people are preventing this project from obtaining perfection. So, rather than cater to the interest of those who are spending their money to enjoy this product, they ignore the thousands of individuals who truly have the best intentions towards improving and making it the best it could be. Why is that I wonder?
When you are nurturing something, don't you make it a priority to keep it alive? Even help it grow, and surpass even your own original ambitions?
We as fans are the investors of this sport. We are the ones who buy the tickets, merchandise, and donate money to programs to improve their facilities. So should we not have a say in how our investment is run? This however is the problem. Money.
This naughty little five letter word has single handedly shredded any decency College Football once held. Rather than focus on team play, sportsmanship, and good old fashioned passion for the game, exclusive clubs were formed. Clubs like the BCS, and the old Bowl Alliance (which birthed the abomination known as the BCS) The BCS pays out an enormous amount of money compared to the Non-BCS bowls, to the teams that are selected to play in their January bowl games.
They formed this club; as they would have you believe, to field the best two teams in the National Championship. What a joke of statement. If that were true, USC and Auburn would have squared off last January instead of the Trojans and the ridiculously over rated Sooners. Not to mention in January 2004. the Sooners falsified the BCS commitment to field the Nations top teams when they took the field against LSU, when USC was the Tigers rightful opponent. I have nothing against the Sooners, but look at the facts! How in Gods Green Earth, can a team that got spanked in their Conference Championship game, turn around and compete for the National Championship. HELLO?!?! Does this make a lick of sense to anyone else? I can just see Bob Stoops in his post game press conference if they had won the National Championship game, "Well we aren't the best in the Big XII, but we sure as Hell are the best team in the country." Are you kidding me!?!?
It has been said by an increasingly large group of people and I will add my voice to the chorus. COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS TO HAVE A PLAYOFF SYSTEM. There is no such thing as BCS conferences, and mid-major conferences. If any conference is Mid Major it would be the Big Least, erm, East. Utah a "lowly little mid major team" from a less prestigious Mountain West Conference sure took Pittsburgh out to the wood shack for a spanking. I had waited for a long time to see a "Non-BCS" team to put the smack down on one of the Almighty Big Six conference teams in a January Bowl game. This is proof that there are no big dogs and little dogs out there, just a bunch of fat rich men trying to keep out smaller schools from their exclusive clubs.
To these men (i use the term men loosely here) i say this; Look around and enjoy it while it lasts, because the party has been crashed and Utah was just the first of the Boise States, Fresno States, Northern Illinois, Marshalls and all the other teams from less glamorous conferences that are on their way in.
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