5th Quarter

BCS And All Its Fun

1.The BCS Got It Right: Sometimes I know it seems as if I am against the BCS but the concept can be better. But this time the flawed system actually got the best matchup in the title game. My biggest beef with the BCS is it would have kept TCU out if either Auburn or Oregon lost. That didn't happen so TCU is regulated to to the Rose Bowl, which doesn't make any sense to me (more on that later). Now we are dealing with the game being played on the tenth of January!!! Are you telling me that we can't decide a championship in the month of December? The Cotton Bowl, a New Years Day tradition, is being played on the 7th!!! Finals for college students are this week and next, so you mean to tell me that the students athletes need 3 weeks of practice? That's why this system is a sham. Most college football fans stop caring in December and go into full fledged NFL-mode for the rest of the season. The Cartel needs to figure out a way to get December back, because right now, no one cares.

2. Political Bowl Process: Nebraska plays Washington again, Boise gets shipped to Las Vegas, and they destroy a typical bowl matchup in the Rose Bowl. The bowl process is purely political and its sickening. Nebraska this year already thumped Washington in Washington but yet they are playing again because Cornhusker fans travel better than Mizzou's. How is this a fair process? The matchup doesn't even make sense because Nebraska DOMINATED the Huskies in September. So you mean to tell me that Boise St. fans wouldn't have gone to California to support their team? No they ship to Nevada as a nice consolation prize. Also how about having Stanford and Wisconsin play in the Rose Bowl, keep the matchup normal. Instead they send TCU, which could have invaded Florida and dismantled Va Tech in the Orange Bowl. It just make more sense to put Stanford in the Rose Bowl and reward them for such a great season. Temple got overlooked with an 8-4 record for teams with records of 6-6, while a team the beat in UConn goes to a BCS bowl. I don't have a problem with UConn going, but because Temple isn't a national football power so we will just overlook them. Let's not reward them for being above average. That's why the system is so jacked up. A playoff would keep the sanity and stop the madness for a money grab.

3. On a football note, and this is a quote: Nebraska will miss the Big 12 and will rue the day it entered the Big 10. The way this team is currently constructed and recruited it can dominate the Big 12 North. Going to the Big Ten, Nebraska will see that they will not dominate their competition as they did in the North. The Cornhuskers are a running team that cannot not pass, the Big Ten has some teams that can pass, and they are going to have to play tougher teams in conference year in and year out. Every year they are mandated to play Penn St., Wisconsin and Iowa. All these teams have really good balance on the offensive side of the ball. Maybe that's why Pelini did not want to go to that conference. You go from a one, two loss team a year to at least a three loss team. Having Iowa St. and Kansas on your schedule looks a lot better than Illinois and Michigan.