This bcs crap has to end. I am tired of oligarchs telling me who the best team isn’t!!!
The old API system was not perfect, but it made all bowl games important that contained any of the top ten teams. Those bowl outcomes created a subjective champ for an AMATUER system that did two things. First students were back in school for the start of Spring/Winter academics (students remember). Second, no matter who was crowned champion, we all had football to talk about until the following season began. We even talked about the individual bowl games and how each one was crucial to the National Championship polls.
Now only two bowls and the championship game matter, the teams are chosen by a computer, traditional rivalries dont matter, games can’t end in a tie ( with the resulting go for broke decisions), and when the season ends we only discuss the lousy process and fire coaches in hopes of landing the magic bullet that will bring us a ring. No one talks of great games and plays/players, but only whether we can buy our way to the championship game by overpaying coaches, ADs, and providing them with Holden parachutes. Really, there was a time when as a nation we cared about the game itself and the players.
In AMATUER sports it truly is not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game - this is how young boys and girls become the men and women our nation needs as both leaders and examples. The pros can say winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing - After all this is the profession they’ve staked their and their families future on, less than five percent of AMATUER athletes go on to play professionally, the rest hopefully will use their educations to be professionals, men and women of honor and integrity.
Let’s go back to the future in college football before we destroy the game we love.
“I’m tired of oligarches tell me who the best team is”
Well it sure as hell ain’t Clempson. They play in a weak basketball conference and play chumps the entire year. They even managed to lose to a very weak Syracuse team. Great teams don’t lose to inferior teams. And no one can say Clempson lost because their starting quarterback was out. Their backup qb is just fine. Syracuse whipped their ass. Alabama loses to their arch rival on the road and the world comes an end. The media darling Clempson loses to a school not much more than a high school and all the sudden Clempson is rated #1. Ridiculous.