The preposterous Bowl Championship Series
Submitted by davidnielsen on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 16:22
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How do you screw up a fantastic college football season?
It's as simple as B-C-S.
What other system can take five undefeated teams and only give two of them -- Alabama and Texas -- a chance to win the national championship?
Sorry TCU, Cincinnati and Boise State. You're not worthy.
If the BCS were in charge of the NCAA basketball tournament, Larry Bird and his undefeated Indiana State team would not have been allowed to play Magic Johnson and Michigan State for the 1979 championship.
Anyone with an ounce of integrity should not be able to defend such a convoluted, unfair system.
Sadly, integrity and common sense are increasingly hard to find in college football.
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Why is TCU, Cincinnati and
Why is TCU, Cincinnati and Boise State unworthy? So in your mind the poll looks something like this:
# TEAM Win/Lost
112 Ball State 2/10
113 Rice 2/10
114 TCU 12/0
115 Cincinnati 12/0
116 Boise State 12/0
117 San Jose 2/10
118 New Mexico 1/11
It's not easy for a team to go undefeated. In my eyes that's big and those teams need recognition for that.