Across The Field: The BCS Mess

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The BCS Mess

The people who have lobbied for a college football playoff may have a vaild argument.

I'm one of those people.

Sunday's BCS Rankings showed how Oklahoma got away with complete robbery when the Sooners barely snuck past Texas for the No.2 spot in those rankings. That means OU plays in the Big 12 title game against Missouri--teams Texas handily beat earlier this season.

I'm not even going to bother touching on the Oklahoma situation because it's wrong, and this subject has already been overkilled by ESPN by now. Be sure to tune in and hear more about it on College Gameday this Saturday, too.

Anyhow, this mess will once again feature Ohio State--only this time, the Buckeyes will be in the B-plot.

I can hear the haters making their cases for why Boise State should get an at-large bid over the Buckeyes. I'd agree with that if Boise actually played somebody other than Oregon.

And yes, I do know what they did to Oklahoma in 2007. Still, West Virginia plowed the Sooners as well in the same bowl game a year later, and look at how bad the Mountaineers this year.

The fact remains that Oklahoma would get mutilated in a bowl game even if they played this year's version of that team up north. Beating the Sooners is no real accomplishment.

Anyhow, Boise State is too afraid to put together a legitimate schedule. They rank 115 out of 119 teams in terms of strength of schedule. Ohio State ranks 43rd.

Regardless, I believe the top ten teams in the BCS rankings should play in the five BCS bowls offered. I don't care if you're a conference champion (BC or VT; Cincy)--if you aren't ranked in the top ten in the BCS standings, then you need to go sit home and watch the BCS games.

It's just ridiculous. How do you justify the terrible ACC sending a team to the BCS while a team like Boise, Ohio State, or Texas Tech sits at home and plays in a mediocre bowl? It's as easy as justifying why undefeated Utah shouldn't play for all the marbles--you can't.