Despite the coaching advantage Ohio State held over LSU, it was evident as the game last night dragged on that, once again, a top-flight SEC team just has more athletes and more play-makers across-the-board than a top-flight Big 10 team.
We commnented to Mongo last night while watching the game that because of the long period of inactivity prior to the game where the two participants have not taken the field in anger for well over a month, the BCS championship game was turning into what the Super Bowl can often be characterized as: All sizzle, no substance. This ain’t no coincidence, folks. Two straight BCS championship games a full week after New Year’s, two straight flat, uninspiring games.
…. or maybe its because one of the 2 teams had no business being there…
Are we going to relent and admit we were mistaken when we predicted that neither LSU nor USC would win the BCS championship? Sure. LSU won it. We were wrong. But we would also like an admission from the BCS that Ohio State was not the #2 team in the land. Afterall, that’s what they promise us every year and it seems that much more often than not, they get it wrong.
We commnented to Mongo last night while watching the game that because of the long period of inactivity prior to the game where the two participants have not taken the field in anger for well over a month, the BCS championship game was turning into what the Super Bowl can often be characterized as: All sizzle, no substance. This ain’t no coincidence, folks. Two straight BCS championship games a full week after New Year’s, two straight flat, uninspiring games.
…. or maybe its because one of the 2 teams had no business being there…
Are we going to relent and admit we were mistaken when we predicted that neither LSU nor USC would win the BCS championship? Sure. LSU won it. We were wrong. But we would also like an admission from the BCS that Ohio State was not the #2 team in the land. Afterall, that’s what they promise us every year and it seems that much more often than not, they get it wrong.
Outside of the greatest college football game ever played 2 years ago when Texas beat USC, 41-38 and after the ’01 season when Ohio St. upset heavily-favored Miami, the remaining 8 games have been remarkable only in their unremarkableness. In fact, the average margin of victory in the 10 BCS title games since its inception has been 16 points (35-19) and since the BCS expanded to 5 bowl games 2 years ago the average margin in those 10 games is 18 pts. (38-20)… hardly the stuff of legend.
And this is what frustrates us about all this: We love college football more than any other sport… we start looking forward to the upcoming season beginning with spring practices and really start ramping up when the college previews start coming out in June and we are absolutely beside ourselves by Labor Day when the season kicks off… and each year, it seems, we are left uninspired and unfulfilled at the end of the season by horrible bowl matchups and legitimate questions regarding who is truly the best team in the nation.
College football needs to fix this. Despite the talking heads at Fox and ESPN/ABC who are paid to lie to us by claiming “the system works”, its clearly not. Scrap this foul non-sense known as the BCS and go to a play-off system or back to the old bowl format. Quit wasting our time with our game.
And this is what frustrates us about all this: We love college football more than any other sport… we start looking forward to the upcoming season beginning with spring practices and really start ramping up when the college previews start coming out in June and we are absolutely beside ourselves by Labor Day when the season kicks off… and each year, it seems, we are left uninspired and unfulfilled at the end of the season by horrible bowl matchups and legitimate questions regarding who is truly the best team in the nation.
College football needs to fix this. Despite the talking heads at Fox and ESPN/ABC who are paid to lie to us by claiming “the system works”, its clearly not. Scrap this foul non-sense known as the BCS and go to a play-off system or back to the old bowl format. Quit wasting our time with our game.
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Dean,
About LSU, you correctly predicted that they would let a few games slip away, so don't be too hard on yourself. Who knew in August that you could still get to the BCS championship this season with two losses?
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