Why the BCS Can Suck It!

Published: November 28, 2007, 9:14 am

Here's the old news: the BCS is an unreliable, unpredictable, and plain old un-smart (yeah, I know that's not a word) way to determine the best team in NCAA football. Here's the new news: the BCS can suck it! BCS (which stands for Bogus Crap Shoot) is a system based on statistical figures and polls used to determine college football rankings. It ultimately decides who will play in which BCS bowl game, which team gets ranked where, and who goes head to head in the National Championship game. The system has been in place since 1998. That's also about the time when fans of one team or another started realizing they were getting "Al Gored" out of a title that was rightfully theirs. Just ask the 5 teams since 1998 who've gone undefeated but denied a chance to compete for a national title. (Poor Tulane.) What about when teams don't win their conference championships and still get to play for a national title? (Yeah Nebraska, I'm talking to you!) Or the dreaded split title nonsense

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