BCS Takes the Blame Once Again

It's this time of year when one has to love all those bloggers out there who feel the need to cry and whine about wanting a college football playoff and by love, I mean, dislike completely. None of them seem to grasp the concept that the BCS did not make the decision to determine the fate of the Big 12 Championship, but that the Big 12 decided to use the BCS for that purpose. That's their decision and their's alone. And for those of you who want a playoff, who do you think should play? Maybe have Alabama play Florida? Check. Oklahoma play Texas Tech? Check. Texas play Texas Tech? Check. The fact is that the SEC and the Big 12 have been greuling it out all year and a team from each of those conferences deserves to be playing in the national championship. And that is exactly what is going to happen (unless of course by some ugly twist of fate, Oklahoma chokes in the Big 12 Championship, as it has done before and USC moves up after a rather easy-going year to play for a title they didn't have to fight for). As for how you determine who represents each conference, that is up to the conferences themselves. The SEC got it right this year. As for the Big 12, I personally believe that Oklahoma is the best team in the country. With that said, Texas may have the better chance of winning the national title.

The SEC got lucky in that the two best teams are in different divisions. But perhaps what could be done instead of moving Texas or Oklahoma to the Big 12 North, is just having the top two teams play each other regardless of division. In some cases you would have a useless replay of a recent game. But in this case, you would have Oklahoma and Texas face off again and see if anything has changed since October 11th. Regardless, I have seen week after week of playoff atmosphere football and there is no need to change it now. Perhaps just tweak the BCS once again and make the conferences take responsibility for their own messes.

And for those of us who truly love college football, things are fine the way they are. It's those out there who have no interest in watching 15 straight weeks of college football that want to see a playoff.