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BCS Turmoil: West Virginia, Mizzou Both Fall

What the hell is point anymore? Why even bother going to the trouble of creating a weekly college football consensus poll when the consensus top teams just go out and lose? Face it people, parity is here and no one can say with any certainty that one team is better than another team unless those two teams play one another on the football field.

That said, this latest BCS hiccup is pretty damn funny. Thanks to Oklahoma and Pittsburgh for a fitting end to the season. It will be funnier still if the computers and such advance Georgia to face Ohio State for the mythical national championship. What better way to end this season than to have a team that didn’t even win it’s own division playing for the BCS title. Oh, the outrage will be deafening — and hilarious.

Though the outrage should not be more passionate than in Hawaii, where the Warriors stand alone as the last unbeaten team in the land, yet they have no chance to play for this completely made-up “championship” title. If there’s not even a pineapple’s chance in hell of a WAC team vying for the big game, why does the BCS even let them in?

Let’s face it, there are only a handful of teams the sports writers and TV people ever want to see playing in the “championship” college football game, chiefly Ohio State or Michigan, Oklahoma or Texas, USC, LSU, and the other usual suspects. The problem has been how to get the best match-up between those candidates, and there’s only one real solution. And no I’m not talking about a playoff system.

It’s high time college football reorganizes itself into some kind of Superleague or Premier Conference composed of a dozen or so of the biggest programs in the land. It won’t happen, of course, but the only real way to determine a college football champion is to have those teams play one another during the regular season at least once or twice.

Think of it: Every week we’d get national championship caliber games such as Texas vs. USC or Florida vs. Oklahoma or Ohio State vs. LSU. (For the NCAA: Imagine the bidding war among FOX Sports, CBS, and ABC/ESPN for the TV rights.) Then at the end of the year, the top two teams would play one last game for the title. And every season the last place team — or bottom two — would get dropped and replaced by some other team deserving of a title shot.

For now, I’ll just be happy to laugh at the BCS (”Bad College Stupid“) as they try to make a bigger mess of this year’s “national title” picture.

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