The BCS: Two Duds in a Row

Well folks, college football season is officially over.  I wish I could say the ending of the season was a dynamic, exciting, well-matched national championship game.  But I can't.  Instead it was a poorly matched blowout with one-sided offense and way too many missed tackles.  I think many will argue that Notre Dame did not belong in the National Championship, blah blah blah.  But under the current system they very much did as the ONLY undefeated team in the country.  Whether some of those wins are controversial or not is a different story because in the end the record book gets marked with a W.  Some people argue their schedule was not legitimate or difficult.  I disagree.  They beat USC, a pre-season #1 team, Stanford, the Rose Bowl winner, and Oklahoma, Big 12 co-champion. 

I am no Notre Dame fan and I am certainly not a fan of the current system but as it stands currently, Notre Dame deserved to be there.  And let's face it, if Notre Dame had lost a game and we had no undefeated teams, just a handful of one loss teams, we would be looking at a repeat of last year.  Two SEC teams in the national championship.  And as Sports Illustrated pointed out last year, that's a game that all of America wants to see....except for the 85% of Americans who don't live in an SEC state.  Last year's game was a complete and total dud, not only was it a rematch of boring game to begin with, but one of the teams never even SCORED!  I struggled to keep my eyes open through that one.....

If Notre Dame had a loss, the national championship most likely would have been a Florida-Alabama match up.  And we all saw how well Florida played in the Sugar Bowl against Louisville.....(If you didn't, they lost).  The outcome would still have been Alabama as the National Champion. 

I don't know about you, but I am so exhausted of the SEC.  I saw only two impressive SEC performances in the bowl season...Alabama and Texas A&M (unfortunately), but the rest of the performances were far less than stellar.  And I thought this was supposed to be the best conference in the nation and here they are struggling against a very weak Big 10 conference.  I'm not convinced....one or two good teams in a conference does not make it the toughest conference.  You can find one or two good teams in every conference....

Basically, college football is a mess and enough with the SEC already! We get it...they're amazing and fantastic and can maybe even beat a low-level pro team....ya right.  We aren't buying it and it's time for an overall of the BCS system so real teams (Oregon) play for the national championship and can stick it to the SEC.  And no the new playoff system won't help much....