C'MON MAN!

This picture is from my least favorite year that the BCS has been around (they're all terrible though). At the end of this season, UGA and USC were definitely playing the best football. I 100% think that they should have been playing for the NC. However, they played two terribly overmatched teams and won easily, leaving many fans pissed and some others letting out a sigh of relief they didn't have to play either team. Missouri got the total shaft though, not playing in any BCS game. #5 and no "big game," yet Illinois comes in and stinks it up against USC? Would Missouri have won? No. Should they have had the chance to win though, yes.

Other than that little story, I haven't blogged in awhile, but this has got to be talked about.

Stupidest story I've ever read and contains almost no real facts and ridiculous speculation.

For the lazy man (or woman), it's an article about the BCS system with quotes from the new chief of the system.

How anyone can say the stuff he did and think he can get away with it is beyond me. Let me give you some examples:

Bill Hancock said a playoff at college football's highest level would lead to more injuries, conflict with final exams, kill the bowl system and diminish the importance of the regular season.

More injuries? Probably, but that's what more games gets you. You don't think they practice just as hard? Not as hard as you play in a game against another team that hates you for that 60 mins, but still damn hard.

Conflict with final exams? Does the 64 round basketball playoff that happens every spring around finals seem to conflict with finals? The games would only be once a week, no different than the normal schedules, just with more importance. They're perfectly able to take finals, or in the worst case, move them to another day. OH NO!!! You can't say you support academic rigor if students might have to move a day his final is on! I've done it, lots of "normal" students do it, get over it.

Kill the bowl system? Isn't that the point? Hell, the people that aren't in the top "however many rounds there are" can still play bowls. The CMU vs Troy game last night was a great one. Could you tell that they weren't top 25 teams? As long as you're not playing these games during the same time a playoff game is going on, people will watch it! Will they go to it? That's up to the fans. Fans still attend the NIT tourny, so what's your point?

And now my favorite: DIMINISH THE IMPORTANCE OF THE REGULAR SEASON? HOW IS THIS EVEN AN ARGUMENT? You think people will expect to piddle around, be around .500 and make it to the playoff? Not happening. If anything, you make it more important. Yeah, I guess the top team in the country might be able to bench some players in the last game because they're probably going to get an invite even if they lose that last game, but isn't that what happens in the pros? Roger Goddell has stated he's looking at a way to fix this problem, so just implement a similar solution. Unbelievable what people will say these days.

Hancock said the fact that other lower levels of college football use playoffs to decide their champions doesn't mean it would work in the Football Bowl Subdivision. The second-tier of Division I football, the Championship Subdivision, has a 16-team playoff with all but the final played at home sites.

"It works at that level, I can't deny it, but if you look attendance for those games, only Montana had decent attendance," he said. "Many teams didn't draw as well as they did in the regular season."

You're telling me, that if Florida played USC in the Swamp, you don't think that game would be sold out? USC at Texas? Ohio St between the hedges? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? If you think Athens is wild during the regular season, bring in Ohio St during the playoffs and see if we don't cover the campus in feces (referencing the campus clean up that had to take place after the South Carolina night game where there was allegedly human waste in undesignated areas and 200 tons of garbage all across the campus). This is another INCREDIBLE IDIOTIC AND UNBELIEVABLE ARGUMENT!

Yes, I can understand how the BCS bumps up college football buzz, but it's for all the wrong reasons. People are pissed because they can't prove their team is the undisputed champion. Boise St is now, once again, undefeated and I'm sure they'll boohoo about not having a NC. Why can't you just let them have their playoff chance and let them see they're unable to compete with the likes of Florida, Alabama, Texas, etc. this year. I would love to see them get crushed so badly they have to disband their football program, ultimately killing that God awful blue field. And with that I say: "BRING ON THE PLAYOFF SYSTEM!"