What are you going to do about it? Every year its guesses which team is the best. Some years it's right, other years it's the judge in a beauty contest, as objective as ice skating. But right now, you'll eat its outcomes and like it. You'll sit there and watch USC kick Illinois in the groin. You'll watch Marcus Howard try to kill Colt Brennan by putting his helmet through his chest. What choice do you have? It's not like it's going anywhere. It has powerful friends. Friends in high places. Friends that will defend it to the end. Way more powerful than you and your friends. After all, the BCS is rich and popular with the people who count, bow-tie wearing, bespectacled academics. Everybody that matters is fat and happy. Don't make the BCS steal your girlfriend just to show you that it can.
The BCS and its buddies make perfect sense. You can't demand an additional game out of two teams! How will their athletes possibly go to class? I mean they already play twelve games on Saturdays during the fall semester. (They used to play 11, but those university presidents and commissioners thought another game would add to the drama of the regular season. Nothing is more dramatic than that twelfth game against Western Carolina.) Then most of those BCS conferences play a conference championship game, also on a weekend. (These are not playoff games, mind you. They are championship games.) Look, you can't have college football players missing class like college basketball or college baseball players. I mean these are the BCS conferences! We take academics seriously. Not like theIvy League or the Patriot League who allow its teams to participate in a barbaric sixteen team playoff. Or the schools of Division III, who subject their students to a mind-numbing thirty-two team playoff for diploma mills like Williams, Johns Hopkins, Amherst, and Washington University.
Plus, who will even watch the regular season if there is a four team playoff? Games like Georgia v. Florida, Georgia v. Tennessee, and Georgia v. Auburn would lose all relevance. Would anyone even show up to watch those games? Probably not if you are just going to let all those teams into a playoff at the end of the year. There's drama when two teams get into a playoff, but none if you allow four. Sometimes there's controversy about the two that play for the championship, but everyone reaches consensus after such an elegant process determines the best team in the land.
Look, college football is thriving. It's thriving because of the BCS, not in spite of it. The BCS has given you so much. (How thrilling was watching Charlie Weiss get his brains beat in by JaMarcus Russell and LSU in 2006?) And you want to destroy it for something that will ABSOLUTELY RUIN your favorite sport. Well, suck it dork. The BCS owns you and will continue to for years to come. Learn to love it.
Quinton
The BCS and its buddies make perfect sense. You can't demand an additional game out of two teams! How will their athletes possibly go to class? I mean they already play twelve games on Saturdays during the fall semester. (They used to play 11, but those university presidents and commissioners thought another game would add to the drama of the regular season. Nothing is more dramatic than that twelfth game against Western Carolina.) Then most of those BCS conferences play a conference championship game, also on a weekend. (These are not playoff games, mind you. They are championship games.) Look, you can't have college football players missing class like college basketball or college baseball players. I mean these are the BCS conferences! We take academics seriously. Not like the
Plus, who will even watch the regular season if there is a four team playoff? Games like Georgia v. Florida, Georgia v. Tennessee, and Georgia v. Auburn would lose all relevance. Would anyone even show up to watch those games? Probably not if you are just going to let all those teams into a playoff at the end of the year. There's drama when two teams get into a playoff, but none if you allow four. Sometimes there's controversy about the two that play for the championship, but everyone reaches consensus after such an elegant process determines the best team in the land.
Look, college football is thriving. It's thriving because of the BCS, not in spite of it. The BCS has given you so much. (How thrilling was watching Charlie Weiss get his brains beat in by JaMarcus Russell and LSU in 2006?) And you want to destroy it for something that will ABSOLUTELY RUIN your favorite sport. Well, suck it dork. The BCS owns you and will continue to for years to come. Learn to love it.
Quinton
