After 10 years of BCS shenanigans, we still don't have a Division I college football playoff. I'm not naive enough to ask why; it's money, plain and simple. The BCS isn't interested in fair, or what fans have to say. They're interested in money. You see, for all of our complaining, coaches' arguments and even politicians courting favor with sports fans by calling for a playoff... one fact remains.
We still watch.
We can scream about a miscarriage of justice from the rooftops, but damn it if we're still tuning in every January for the BCS bowls (or if we're gazillionaires or contest winners, we actually have tickets). We're still buying licensed merchandise declaring that OUR TEAM WON. We're still sparring on message boards, teasing at office watercoolers and, yes, blogging about the big game.
But what if we stopped all of that? Maybe this January 8 I'll rent a movie. Or even better, spend time with my family. Maybe we'll have a conversation that doesn't involve the phrase "Will you please be quiet, I'm trying to WATCH THE GAME!" Maybe the coaches can all turn around and say "Nah, we're not going. Our players have finals. But hey, thanks for the invitation!"
Yeah, I know. It'll never happen. Then again, neither will a playoff.
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Admittedly, the BCS is better than the old system, where #1 could be obligated to go to the Sugar Bowl and #2 could be obligated to go to the Rose Bowl, and they could split the Championship.
The main problem with the BCS is that it only works right when there are exactly two undefeated teams (or, in weird years, exactly two one-loss teams when everyone else has 2 losses. And I mean teams from actual conferences, not mid-majors like the Mountain West, the WAC, or the Big East.) But it hardly ever shakes out that way.
All I do know is that Mack Brown would be complaining a lot less about the system if Texas were still ranked #2...
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