Nothing to see here.... please move along

Proponents of the BCS and those willing to hold onto the antiquated bowl system will tell you that adopting a play-off system for college football would render regular season games meaningless…..

This is precisely why we didn’t watch that compelling Saturday night game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Dallas Cowboys where rookie quarterback, Joe Flacco, played nearly flawless ball in bring down the curtain on Texas Stadium and where the Ravens beat the Drama Boyz, 33-24.

It also explains why we didn’t bother tuning in to see the Chargers stay yet another execution by pummeling the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and their vaunted defense behind Philip Rivers’ 4 touchdown throws to the tune of 41-24, which was confirmed immediately afterwards by the Buffalo Bills going into Invesco Field to steal one from the Denver Broncos 30-23 which sets up another meaningless regular season game next Sunday night as the Broncos come to San Diego to play the Chargers for the winner-take-all – loser-goes-home AFC West championship.

And because the playoffs render regular season games moot is why we didn’t bother to watch a playoff atmosphere-like matchup between the New York Giants and the Carolina Panthers, last night, where the only thing the two teams were playing for was home-field advantage throughout the playoffs and which, incredibly enough and against all logic, turned out to be an excellent, well-played and exciting ball game as the Giants defeated the Panthers 34-28 in overtime.

And what was college football doing over the weekend? There were a few bowl games… we think. We seem to recall Colorado State playing Fresno State for the honor to take home some pottery but not much else.

When, outside the obvious (the BCS championship game – Florida vs. Oklahoma), the most intriguing bowl match up is the Poinsettia Bowl between Boise St. and TCU here in San Diego tomorrow, you know you’ve got problems with your bowl match-ups and your Bowl/BCS system.

We know it’s not happening anytime soon but the bowl season is dead to us. Stick a fork in it.