Jan 07 2009
The BCS sucks.
When a five year old girl tells you that something is stupid, then you have a textbook case that whatever you told the little cherub is absolute nonsense. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen to me, but a friend of mine. However, the principle remains the same as I had to endure the painstaking process of explaining post-season college sports to my remarkably athletically illiterate girlfriend (not that it’s hard to explain all of it, but I did have to start from scratch).
I made it easy on myself explaining the tournament system and then working my way up from Division III to Division I and then to the Division I-A (aside: screw the name “FBS”) football system. I traversed through the meanings of upsets and rankings and the regular season and how it added up to conference tournaments and championships and how it led to schools are fighting for national meaning and eternal glory for players, coaches, and fans.
Then, I had to blank that slate and talk about the BCS.
The Bowl Championship Series, where money and politics decide who will be crowned the national champion in all of college football “where every game of the week matters.” Pfft. This statement is the acceptable mantra of ESPN which only further propagates this senselessness. To top it off, ESPN bought out all the bowl games making them the Microsoft of college football.
As a writer, it is at this point that I make a case for all of us to rise up and defeat this beast. However, I’m not sure there is anything to be done. My hours of browsing through crappy forums and crappy columns has only presented the opportunity of “waiting it out”.
So, comrades, let us shout at our plasma screens and vote on nonscientific online polls until our office pools bleed.
Come on 2014!
PS: Screw you ESPN.
