BCS

Florida crushed Ohio state to shock the World today once again proving how hard it is to predict College football. The so-called experts spend hours and hours discussing this stuff for months and the reality is, they have no idea what they are talking about. The sample of games each team plays is just not large enough for determining who's better. Also they play these games in silos with very few common opponents. The SEC and Big 10 teams have nothing in common to make any kind of comparisons. At least in NCAA basketball, the teams play a large set of games. This means, the experts (and the fans) have a sufficiently large sample of games to rank these teams on. This also means, each team has faced a lot of good, mediocre and bad teams for us all to see and analyze. Also, when the teams play more games, they also play more common opponents and it makes it easier to compare and contrast. And in some of these games they play, the top basketball schools actually play each other in a variety of pre-season tournaments. All of this lends a little bit more credibility to the basketball ranking during the season. Of course they do have the NCAA tournament in March which makes all of this moot, but I am just comparing the two ranking systems.

So in football, we have to completely depend on these so-called expert opinions on who's better and they are often proven wrong like today. Ohio State scored a TD on the games first play and still lost 41-14! Are you kidding me? It's pretty obvious that we need a playoffs. I am not one of those BCS bashers because I still remember the pre-BCS days and BCS is a definite upgrade. Nobody seems to give them any credit for that. BCS is trying it's best to achieve some level of fairness in an inherently unfair and stupid environment. Without the BCS, we don't even have a Ohio State-Florida match-up. Lets not forget that. As bad as the BCS is, we are totally at the mercy of these so-called experts without the BCS. And a game like tonight's shows you how stupid that is. Thank God to the BCS, we at least have some of these teams playing each other. Otherwise, we would be going to bed tonight convinced Ohio State is better than Florida because thats what a bunch of fat experts told us. Also in an odd way, I think all this BCS controversy will eventually push us to a playoffs. I always looked at the BCS as a stepping stone to a playoffs and this years new additional Bowl game gives me even more hope. We might be further away from a playoff without the BCS and thats another reason I don't mind the BCS.

The best game this BCS season was obviously Boise State-Oklahama. What a game! I thought that was one of the best football game - pro or college, that I have ever seen. The trick plays that Boise State pulled in that game were amazing. I would recommend that every football fan catch this game on ESPN classic or wherever they can. It's a must see. But if you really want to know the politics behind these Bowl games, here's an interesting fact. This great game drew 3 or 4 points lower in TV ratings compared to last year's Fiesta bowl because Notre Dame was in last year's game! Of course they lost comfortably, but who cares.