The BCS Proves Nothing Again!!!

The BCS hasn’t worked again. As we have seen since the establishment of the BCS, rarely do you have only two clear best teams by the end of the regular season. I would either have a playoff, or drop this fake champion BCS system altogether. The BCS should have initially been a plus one game in most seasons. Looking back at the history of the BCS, this would have proven the best team in college football. For example the year we had USC and Texas unbeaten, just put them in the BCS title game. Last year it would have worked better as a plus one game, Utah vs. Florida.

Anyway the real reason I’m writing is to showcase some of the flaws this year. However as most you know, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that this year nothing will be proven. A lot of people are missing the main points of the argument, which are as follows.

1. The preseason rankings which we have argued about before created a preconceived notion that Texas is somehow better than TCU or Cincinnati. If Cincinnati or TCU was ranked #2 to start the season, I see nothing that Texas did to clear justify them jumping to #2 in all the polls.

2. The Computers favor Cincinnati, 4 of the 6 BCS computer rankings favor Cincinnati. Computer rankings are a less biased then sports writers, trust me. Brian Cook at TSN gets this point too. If all of the voters clearly see Texas as the second best team, would an advance computer formula easily be able to prove the same?

Another related side story is Brian Kelly and the Big East are bird brains. For this reason I don’t want Brian Kelly at Notre Dame, as he has proven he doesn’t know how to handle PR. Brain Kelly should have been on an all out attack, saying his team is favored by the computers and had a tougher schedule in the final weeks of the season. Case in point if Brian Kelly knew what he was doing after the Pitt game instead of saying - Go Cornhuskers. He should have said. –

What a game we just beat one of the toughest teams in the country on their home field to go undefeated and win the Big East Title. There is non question that after today’s performance Mardy Gillard should win the Heisman. What a clutch performance. It would be a sin against the city of Cinncinnati and college football, not to allow this team to compete for a National Title.

But he didn’t, and Big East apparently can’t even get their own coaches to vote Cincinnati ahead of Texas. The real loser is the Big East as they look like whimps, because the coaches and sports writers voted TCU a team from non Big East conference ahead of their undefeated champions. Go back to PR school Big East!

For that matter TCU should have ran their mouths about Texas being so lucky not to be facing them. Anything to make people think you deserve to be there. TCU you did an equally horrible job making a case for yourself.

I do credit Texas, because they certainly made people feel they deserved to be there. There massive fan base also doesn’t hurt.

So thank you again BCS for proving….hmmm NOTHING! Texas, Cinncy, and TCU all should be competing for a national title. Cincinnati and TCU have ESPN, Brent Musburger and their inexperienced coaches and PR staffs to thank for their lack of second place votes.

At least the BCS system does give us a final match-up between the two most politically advantageous and popular schools, along with something for us to complain about. It just rarely proves anything.