Just like cold weather and snow, it’s a given this time of year that the Bowl Championship Series becomes the center of attention in the sports world, second only to Terrell Owens and his shenanigans, of course.
Since its inception in 1998, the BCS system has been a cancer on the backside of college athletics.
Created to match the two top college football teams in a single championship game at the end of the season, the BCS has done nothing more than create controversy.
Take, for example, the first year the BCS system was used: in 1998. During that year Tulane went 11-0. Not too shabby, right?
Well, 11-0 doesn’t mean jack squat to the BCS system, no sir. Instead of playing in the Orange Bowl or Sugar Bowl, No. 11 Tulane got the distinguished honor of playing in the Liberty Bowl.
How about 2004, when Auburn was left out of the BCS championship with an undefeated record and the so-called national championship game turned out to be a rout with USC dominating Oklahoma 55-19?
What do you say to Tulane or Auburn after an undefeated season?
Congratulations. Your team went undefeated this year. Great season, guys. However, my computer over here is telling me that your strength of schedule and point margin is rather subpar. Better luck next year. However, there is good news: you’ll be playing in Jiffy Lube.com Bowl in Tasmania. Good luck.
Some decisions should be left up to a mathematical equation, like the vast majority of George Bush’s decisions.
But one thing a mathematical equation shouldn’t decide is a college championship. USC has lost one game in the last three years. They won last year’s national championship game, and they are currently No. 2, according to the BCS. Am I the only one who feels like they’re taking crazy pills? USC are the undisputed champions and should remain so until somebody knocks them off. That’s just how it works.
Imagine if we had a BCS system for professional sports. Instead of playoffs or a post-season, it would just be the two top-rated teams playing at the end of the season. Two teams, one game to decide the champion.
If BCS Coordinator Mike Tranghese and the other buffoons in control of the BCS would open their eyes, they would see they are the only idiots in college athletics letting a computer do their work for them.
NCAA basketball and hockey have the NCAA Tournament, NCAA baseball has the College World Series … Hell, even lacrosse has playoffs.
Put bluntly, the BCS system is ludicrous in all facets. It hasn’t done one good thing for college football. Sometimes I wonder how one goes about coming up with such a ridiculous idea.
The BCS system needs to go. It’s time. It’s been time for the last five years.
Next year, when the Badgers get left out of the national championship game after going 11-0, you better look out, Tranghesel, ’cause I’m coming for you and your damn BCS.
Knickerbocker is a senior print journalism major and a columnist for The Spectator.
