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So Oklahoma likes to score points and Tim Tebow is Jesus Christ himself on Earth. Therefore, the Sooners and Gators should duke it out for the National Championship, right? Maybe.

During college football season. ESPN airs a certain advertisement that states, "EVERY GAME MATTERS." At first thought this commercial seems right for the cause, in that it is describing how no ranked team is ever safe and any game throughout a team's schedule can make a difference. Well after witnessing the past few weekends of Sooners, and Longhorns, and Gators, Oh My!, I would have to say this is false advertising. The BCS has made it clear that how a team plays later in a season has more of an impact than games played in the first half. 

Let's first take a recap of some of the big games this season. Florida gets upset early by Mississippi on a last second field goal, only to run away on Tim Tebow's shoulders to the SEC title. Penn State blows their perfect season against a talented Iowa team. Texas stomps Oklahoma, only to lose to Texas Tech in an extremely unlucky fashion. Oklahoma puts up big numbers against Texas Tech and goes on to beat Missouri for the Big XII title. My only response to this? Sorry Texas, you got screwed. 

Going back to my previous statement about how a team's performance at the end of the year matters more than in the beginning, Oklahoma should not be in the National Championship game. From watching games every weekend, Urban Meyer's Gators seem like the real deal and deserve to play for all the marbles. The question between Oklahoma and Texas however, is not so easy to determine. I understand that with their blowout against Missouri, Oklahoma became the highest scoring team in college football history, but experts need to look at the numbers. The Sooners were pinned down in the Red River Shootout by Texas 45-35. So just because Oklahoma puts up a zillion points against Texas Tech and Texas loses a nail biter to the Red Raiders makes the Longhorns inferior? Something just isn't right. Texas will now have to live with the fact that a team that they consider their biggest rival, who they also beat by ten points is being granted the chance to play for college football superiority. Ah, the drama that is the BCS.

So how do you fix a mess such as this? Playoff system? Rock, Paper, Scissors? Cage fight to the death? Maybe, maybe not. All I know is that good teams like Texas, Oklahoma State, USC, and Alabama are getting snubbed out championship opportunities because of the post season bowl system we have today. And no offense to teams like Utah and Boise State, but there are a handful better teams out there that are under the national radar because of their tougher conferences.

I could go on forever about this controversy, but I will put this topic to rest and just look forward to watching some football. I mean hell, I could be a Michigan fan and not even have a bowl game to look forward to. 

Yeah, I got jokes. 

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Yea maybe you should have posted this on a longhorns site

by gdizzle320 on Dec 7, 2008 9:32 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Nah

Come here and post as much as you want. I’m in the midst of working on a “possible scenario’s and why they don’t work” post that concludes with me drinking heavily in disgust. There is not way this whole thing works flawlessly – somebody gets screwed.

Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

by Beauford on Dec 8, 2008 12:49 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I'd be more angst filled about Texas and Penn State's fates if...

I hadn’t already blown a gasket over 2006… I’ve been jaded by the system since and just can’t manage the passion and rage to tackle it again this soon.

by SCM on Dec 10, 2008 6:07 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

ha

Agreed. The thing is – you’ve just got to be happy with your conference championship and a good bowl win. Anything else is decided, seemingly, arbitrarily and thus isn’t important.

Orson really nailed how I’m looking at this whole thing until we get a better system in place. It’s under “Orson nailed it” in the fanshots.

Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

by Beauford on Dec 10, 2008 8:40 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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