Leave It to the BCS

The BCS has found a way to still suck.

Since the ignoramuses in charge of this thing stubbornly refuse to put in a playoff system and let this thing be decided on the field instead of by a computer, I can understand why Alabama and Texas are in the title game. The one that infuriates me is that undefeated TCU is going to face undefeated Boise State.

The six BCS conferences, with the help of the compliant sports media, tries to act like the other conferences don't exist, and if they do, they're the cute junior-varsity kids doing their little games. In the past five years, four non-BCS schools have broken in with undefeated records, and three of them won. They've never had a chance at a title. This year two non-BCS schools made it through. No title chance. And then what does the BCS do? It makes them play each other.

It ghetto-izes the non-BCS schools. I would much rather see TCU vs. Florida or Cincinnnati vs. Boise St. What is the BCS so afraid of? They chortled when Hawaii squeaked in and got crushed. But let's play this out.

The Big East, traditonally the weakest of the six BCS conferences in football, is barely hanging on to its automatic-bid status. Cincinnati beating Florida would be huge, but TCU beating Florida would create true exposures, like underlining why Florida chooses cakewalk non-conference games every year. Maybe it's easy for the SEC to say they're the best conference when their top schools don't take on top talent. Oklahoma rolled the dice on putting BYU on their schedule and got burned. See also Oregon v. Boise St.

It's too late this year to right the wrong of TCU vs. Boise St., which is a rematch from their Bowl game last year, but now it'll be played on a BCS stage, if not against a BCS opponent. Next year, although I'm sure the Powers That Be are praying that either one or none of the non-BCS teams go undefeated again, IF they have a WAC and MWC team go undefeated next year, and only one or none of the BCS teams go undefeated, they have to let one in the National Championship Game.

It's gotten so bad, Congress is investigating. The sooner they put in a playoff system, the better.