BCS Busters Holiday Madness!

The mind works like a parachute…it only works if you open it. Let’s open it up shall we? If college football would ever get up off its dairy airy and figure out a regular season bracketed playoff to determine the bowl games (within the regular 12 game season) is the perfect way to go, then the true fans of college football would actually have something to look forward to rather than dread.

With the impending perfect “BCS” storm brewing on the horizon (by the way, did you get Gundy’s weather forecast in the last article?) wouldn’t it be great if we came upon the first week of November refreshed with some unbelievable heavy weight match-ups to look forward to? Match-ups that actually accounted for something?

The current BCS system is so convoluted that the loser often times ends up being the winner. One thing I’ve never understood regarding the BCS is the fact that a team like Ohio State can go undefeated for 10 weeks, and lose a game in week eleven, and fall completely out of the championship race altogether.

Not that I’m a Buckeye believer, because if they faced a true schedule they would most likely be in Michigan’s shoes (3 losses), but isn’t Ohio State’s record similar to Oregon, LSU, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Arizona State or Missouri? Only upstart Kansas has a record superior to the Buckeyes.

Of course, If Kansas played a true schedule they would likely be in USC’s, Florida’s or Georgia’s shoes. I think you know where I’m headed. We will never know who the best team in the nation is with this convoluted system.

So why does it continue and where will we be in December? That is anyone’s guess but I can promise you one thing, the smell looming from this stink bomb is sure hang around for awhile.

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict an LSU - Oklahoma national championship game. Not because I believe these two programs are the absolute best and deserve it, but because they are heavily connected to the College Football Association movement, which I believe orchestrates the puppet strings behind the BCS.

The Oregon - Oklahoma debacle from last year has left a sour taste in the minds of the majority vote (Harris and Coaches Polls) behind the BCS and you can bet your bottom dollar that Oklahoma will certainly surpass Oregon as 75% percent of the Harris Poll and Coaches Poll members are tied directly to Chuck Neinas and the CFA movement.

Remember the California-Texas debate from 2004 when Dee Los Dodds (athletic director) and head coach Mac Brown campaigned for votes in overtaking the Bears? Dodd’s worked closely with Neinas during the CFA era and Brown and Neinas vacation together annually.

Although there is no love loss between Texas and Oklahoma, the two are in cahoots with the CFA alliance, and the relationship between the CFA and the Big-10/PAC-10 alliance has been shaky at best over the last 30 years.

The CFA alliance would like nothing better than bumping PAC-10 member Oregon out of the BCS title game, or even Arizona State out of the Rose Bowl for even if Oklahoma loses to Kansas or Missouri in the annual Big-12 championship game, the conference will still have two BCS participants in the bowls, and look for the loser of the Big-12 title game to bump a PAC-10 school out of the Rose Bowl, especially if either Oregon or Ohio State falters in the next two weeks.

Get ready for the CFA bowl shuffle ladies and gentlemen as Texas and Oklahoma are in prime position to pounce! Of course, the BCS Buster regular season playoff model would solve all of this and Ohio State would have an equal chance at the title absolving the penalties behind losing a single game at the tail end of the season.

If we started with the conference games first, eliminating the bogus September match-ups between the powerhouses and the patsies, we would have room in the vital month of November for some incredible football.

The match-ups in the BCS Bracket alone would in fact look something like this:

ACC

Virginia Tech @ Clemson

Boston College @ Virginia

SEC

Mississippi State @ Georgia

Florida @ LSU

BIG-10

Michigan @ Illinois

Penn State @ Ohio State

BIG-EAST

South Florida @ West Virginia

Cincinnati @ UCONN

BIG-12

Texas @ Kansas

Missouri @ Oklahoma

PAC-12

USC @ Oregon

BYU @ Arizona State

Rocky Mountain

S. Miss @ Boise State

Hawaii @ Tulsa

C-USA

Troy @ New Mexico

MAC

C. Michigan @ Miami (OH)

After this four week bracketed tournament, a true champion would emerge as a result of head-to-head competition. Wouldn’t it be fun to fill out this bracket and watch it evolve in the vital month of November, knowing full well that at its conclusion we would still have some unbelievable bowl game match-ups, as well as a true national championship tilt?

So remember, when your stooping over that broken 60-inch wide screen (because you’ve just thrown your cocktail right through the middle of it) after the BCS cronies announce the most atrocious national championship match-up yet, in spite of all the parity evidenced this season, due to the fact that the final two participants will once again be two of the founding fathers behind the CFA movement, you only have yourself to blame.

Remember where you heard it first. After all the dust settles it’s LSU and Oklahoma again, which begs me to ask the question, why did we even have to play the games to begin with because this every game is a playoff bullschitzky is only valid for the CFA elite?

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