The BCS - Drop The C For An Apt Description

I wanted to wait at least a day before I wrote anything about the BCS fiasco that occurred Sunday night. I didn’t want to be a rambling, incoherent, hypocritical mess. You know, someone who didn’t write for ESPN. Now, this season of college football has redefined the term “whacky”. Thirteen top 5 teams lost to unranked teams, the number 1 and 2 teams in the nation lost on the last day of the season, and the two teams that finish at the top of the BCS are a team that hasn’t played in two weeks and another that has been ranked in the top 2 twice already this season. Unlike past years, there isn’t controversy because there are three deserving teams and one got left out. The controversy lies in the fact that no team is truly deserving, which opens up the discussion to who is the most deserving of the unworthy? If this doesn’t make the argument for a playoff, nothing will. Let’s breakdown the teams, shall we?

Ohio State:
Pros – Big 10 conference champs. Quality win against Michigan on the road.
Cons – Lost to Illinois at home. Very easy schedule.
On the surface, you would think Ohio State is a clear cut choice, but let’s dig a little deeper. The Big 10 was on the downturn this year, so there quality in conference was poor. There out of conference schedule was Youngstown State, Akron, and Kent State at home and Washington on the road. If you’re looking to with the Ohio state title, this is fine, but we are talking about the National Championship here. Give the top 10 of the BCS this schedule, and they run the table.

LSU:
Pros – SEC conference champs. Quality wins against Virginia Tech (home), Florida (home), Auburn (home), Alabama (road), and Tennessee (neutral).
Cons – Two losses, on the road against Kentucky and at home against Arkansas.
Of everyone in the BCS, LSU has the best argument to be in the National Championship game. They won the toughest conference in college football. However, they have been sporadic at best throughout the year. Due to the late loss to Arkansas, they had been considered out, but due to the losses of 1 and 2, voters gave LSU the benefit, bumping them over two idle teams on one team that also won.

Virginia Tech:
Pros – ACC conference champs. Quality wins against Clemson (road), BC (neutral), and Virginia (road).
Cons – Two losses, on the road against LSU and at home against BC.
Virginia Tech got the douche more than anyone in the BCS. They were ranked ahead of LSU to start the day on Saturday, and beat a higher ranked opponent by a larger margin of victory. Yet, at the end of the day, everyone was talking about LSU, Georgia, USC, and even Oklahoma as playing OSU, but not VT (my girlfriend will tell you that I yelled VT out a few times while watching ESPN). However, there schedule was relatively easy, as the ACC was down this year, and they lost to there only quality opponent, LSU.

Georgia:
Pros – Quality wins against Alabama (road), Florida (neutral), Auburn (home), and Kentucky (home).
Cons – Didn’t win conference championship. Two losses, at home to South Carolina and on the road to Tennessee.
Georgia seems to be the easiest one to disqualify, as they didn’t win there conference. I’ll be the first one to say that I’ve wanted a rule in the BCS that states you need to be a conference champ to be in the National Championship Game. However, I’m not going to act like I just saw a whore in church when talking about, especially when I don’t remember the fuss when both Nebraska and Oklahoma did it, shutting out superior teams (I’m looking at you Mark May).

Oklahoma:
Pros – Big 12 conference champs. Quality wins against Missouri (once at home, once on neutral site) and Texas (neutral).
Cons – Two losses, on the road in Colorado and Texas Tech.
Everyone loves Oklahoma, but why? They really don’t have quality wins, and there losses are mind boggling. I hate this Big 12 bias, and it’s been going on forever (see what I wrote about Georgia). The Big 12 is a weak conference and any team from the SEC and Pac-10 could move in and contend right away (even Ole Miss and Washington State).

I’m not going to rehash the argument I made for Georgia with Kansas and Missouri (yet, Missouri got douched out of a BCS bowl all together) and I really can’t bring myself to make some sort of defense for USC. You can really make a case for most of these teams. So, what does this mean? You got it, playoff. I think the only way to find a true champion this year is with a playoff. It would be fun, considering USC and Georgia are both playing amazingly right now. But why have a playoff when you can have a cruel and arbitrary system made up of coaches and computers deciding who will face off in a National Championship Game?