Look I like LSU and am rooting for them. I simply think the whole premise of the BCS and the way and where the bowls are played is silly. You finish the regular season and the conference championship, then wait for weeks to play the bowl game you are in. Geez that makes sense. Then the games are all played in warm weather climes in the winter. So the southern and western teams can practice a little better, than the midwest and northern teams don't you think? I wonder how Florida would fare playing in 0 degree weather in East Lansing in January?

 

The fact is there are built in advantages to being a team from the south or the west. I am for a playoff system, which I am sure would have flaws, but this system is simply ridiculous. Other levels of the NCAA football system have playoffs. Baseball, basketball, softball, soccer and hockey all have playoffs at the collegiate level. This is Dancing With the Stars for 25 to 65 year old men. A popularity contest.

 

You'll get no argument from me on the BCS.

 

Yes, we need a playoff. However, you will never see one.

 

If this season has taught anything, with all of the realignment, money really talks. Because money talks, it's obvious that there is more money to be had in the current bowl system, than any type of playoff. If that wasn't the case, we'd have one, now.

 

Instead, what happens every year? There is an outcry against the BCS from fans, coaches, the press, even Congress.

 

Then more are bowls added.

 

Why? Because we keep watching. When nobody travels to the bowl games and stadiums are empty, hurting the restaurant and hotel associations, when nobody watches the games on TV and boycotts the products sponsoring the events, when big time boosters quit donating, when alumni associations rise up and oust the school presidents and conference commissioners that perpetuate the current system, that's when you might see a playoff. Otherwise continue to keep dry clothes around for the yearly exercise of peeing in the wind.

Use Virginia Tech and Clemson. Wisconsin and Michigan State are both BCS bowl worthy. No one from the ACC should be allowed in the BCS bowls. Or the Big East. The SEC has 4-5 BCS worthy teams IMO.

 

I used the Big Ten schools purposely as a little dig, since the thread was started with whining about OSU and Michigan in 2006. I knew someone would eventually point out there are better examples, but my use of the Big Ten teams was by design.

 

I'd have gone with Big East schools at the top of my list of unworthy BCS qualifers, if I hadn't been digging. The ACC is bad, but Virginia Tech could likely hang with the Big Ten champ.

 

As for the Big Ten, if Wisconsin wins it, they are BCS worthy. Michigan St., not so much. I can't get past Notre Dame handing it to them. Notre Dame couldn't hand it to ACC bad team number 8, Boston College.

Big Ten fans are slower than their teams.

 

I like a good one liner. And, here we have a nice one. :laugh:

Big Ten fans are slower than their teams.

 

Excellent work :lol:

:clap: Man, I wish I could think up stuff like this rather than my usual "oh yeah"?

 

I fell out of my chair, beautiful. :thumb: