I am so confused that my head is starting to hurt. Last night Florida and Oklahoma played in the National Championship game, so common sense would imply that the winner is the number one team and the loser the number two team in the country. Obviously common sense is never applicable when dealing with the BCS. Only in their system can a team play for the number one spot, lose the game and end up with a final ranking of #5.
Then again only Utah can find their team ranked #2(AP) and #4 (USA Today) while being undefeated, having beaten 4 ranked opponents, kicked the bejesus out of Alabama 31-17 who was ranked #1 in the country for 5 weeks and who Florida had to beat to get into the National Championship game. Heck I guess at the end of the day they should be happy that they even received one first place vote. Of course they suffer from the same disease that Texas Tech quarterback fell victim to; you just aren’t big time enough which is why Urban Meyer hit the road and went straight to Gainesville when offered his golden ticket.
Is it asking too much for the NCAA to step in, take ownership and develop a playoff system? My husband, a graduate student at the Naval Post Graduate School is actually considering doing a quarter long project on how to develop an effective playoff system for NCAA football using linear programming or game theory. Are you kidding me? Its freaking football. X amount of teams make the playoffs, they advance, as you get down to the final 8 games, they are considered bowl games. Sponsors, college presidents, coaches all go home happy because they will still get a big fat pay check and there will be no debate on who is the number one team in the country.
Now if we can only get President Elect Obama to sign off on the antitrust violation against the BCS, but apparently he thinks he should be focusing his time on creating 3 million more jobs. Go figure.
For now I am confused as usual…
