Cancel all the bowls

 

The college football season has been, umm what’s the word to use, weird? Strange? Bizarre? Unpredictable? Worthless? a tease? Crazy? Upsetting? I don’t know. Pick one. There was been so many twist and turns. There as been an upset every week and the No 1. or No. 2 team has lost to unranked teams 673 times. There is no clear cut No. 1 or No. 2 team. Therefore, there is only one thing to do that would make it a perfect ending to this incredible awkward season. And no, having OSU play LSU in the National Championship game is not it. The only thing that should be done is to cancel the bowl season and call this whole college football season a wash. It’s time for the big D-O, or do over. Push the reset button and pretend this thing never happened.

 

Why is this the only thing to do? The National Championship game contestants came by default. No one could pick who the best two team were so they picked the team that hadn’t played in three weeks, and there for didn’t lose for three weeks and a team that was ranked eighth in the pervious BCS polls. Does that make any sense? If there are no two best teams, the system is worthless. This is even worse than in (I think it was) 2003 when undefeated Auburn was left out of the title game or in 2004 when USC won part of the national title without playing in the BCS title game. At least in those situations it was a debate about only two teams for the final spot. This year there are eight teams that have an argument.

 

There are so many things that bother me about the bowls this year. Even more than just Ohio State being in the National Championship game. First, I don’t think I want to call it the National Championship game anymore. What term better describes the game? The Game That Has To Give The National Title To Someone Because That’s What The Rules Say? The Default National Championship Game? The Game That Ends The Year? I’ll go with No. 2.

 

If there ever was a way to get lucky and to back-in to The Default National Championship Game, Ohio State did it. That annoys me more than the fat, stinky man who sits next to me at work and will fart in the room and pretend nothing happened and not even apologize for it. It’s not even the fact that OSU is in The Default National Championship Game, it’s how they did it. If the Big Ten season ended Saturday like every other BSC conference does, the Buckeyes would have never been in the game. They would have lost to Illinois the week before and would have dropped to eight or nine in the polls (like they did). A win over a very mediocre Michigan team would not have been enough to climb up to the top ranking. But since they haven’t played for three weeks, again meaning they couldn’t lose, all of a sudden they were good enough to move up the rankings and to The Default National Championship Game. Does that make any sense? How is a team that four weeks ago was ranked 8th and only beat a non-ranked team all of sudden play for the national title? By default, that’s how. I’m sorry but that’s unacceptable. 

 

Ohio State is not the best team in the country. I think even OSU fans would agree with that. The question, once again, is who is the best team in the country. OSU’s best wins were over 15th ranked Wisconsin and non-ranked Michigan. I hate bringing up strength of schedule but it should be figured in. If OSU played in the SEC, Big XII or even the ACC, they would not have won the conference. It was just a horrible year for the Big Ten. When there is no clear cut best team, or best two teams in the country, then you should throw out the records and just look at talent. I think the voters did that in moving LSU up to No. 2 after being No. 7 after the Arkansas loss. But they didn’t do it to OSU. They were number won by default since they only have one loss.

 

Look at Virginia Tech. They have two losses but one was to LSU early in the year and the other was to Boston College, then No. 2 in the country and currently No. 14. Pretty strong. 

 

Maybe I’m looking at it the wrong way since I’m a Michigan fan. I’m trying to be objective (sort of) and I just truly don’t see how OSU can play for a national title. The worse part about it is that Buckeye fans think they really deserve it. There no is going to four weeks of “We’re playing for the national championship” talk that is unwarranted. I don’t even know what to say about those fans. I’m getting annoyed thinking and writing about it. At this point, I’d rather be trapped in a small room my farting fat co-worker than an OSU fan.

 

A few other things that bother me about this year’s bowls. How does Missouri not go to a BCS game and Kansas does? Committed commenter Scott brought this point up yesterday and I totally agree. Read his comments from yesterday’s post. 

 

The same with Illinois. They don’t deserve the Rose Bowl. They got it only because on conference can have more than two teams in BCS bowls and you have to be ranked in the top 14 to get an at-large bid. USC will beat them by 45. 

 

Why not Hawaii? They ran the table. Yes it was an extremely soft schedule but no one would play them. Michigan and Michigan State both backed out of games with them. I know I just said Ohio State had a week schedule and that should factor into not playing in The Default National Championship Game but one thing that no matter who the team and what their schedule is in BCS conferences, if you run the table, you get to play for the national title. Hawaii did that and I think they have as good as a case as any other team. I don’t think anyone would be able to stop their passing game.

 

There’s so much but I think I’ve said enough for now. I’ll let you guys throw around some opinions about this. One more note, Michigan plays Florida in the Capital One Bowl. So not only do I get to see 584 commercials about the Mascot Bowl but I get to watch Michigan lose by 35 in Lloyd Carr’s final game. That will be a perfect way to end the season. The only more perfect way would be if the entire bowl schedule was canceled.