Jan 09 2009
BCS Championship Game, were you impressed?
Today Florida was named the National Champion by the AP after a 24 to 14 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners, however there still were some that thought Florida was not the best team in the end.
Incuding myself which, I thought Florida did capitalize on a lot of failed conversions by Oklamhoma but the game still left me guessing if these were the two best teams in the nation. Tim Tebo may be the best Florida Gator football player ever but was his team better than everyone else. Would have USC defense been able to shut down Tebo? Maybe if you watched any of that Rose Bowl performance. Plus would Utah even be a threat, although the WAC did have a strong record against the PAC TEN and did beat Alabama. Which I know they claimed to be not happy about there spot playing Utah, but you still have to go out to win your bowl to be in the discussion.
In the end we ll get to talk about whose better than the other and another undefeated team gets wahsed out as the National Champion. The BCS still needs to tweek this system because too much is left unanswered. Even a plus one game would give us more to swallow until next fall.
Texas, Utah, and USC are all claiming they were the best but because of the BCS we were left with Florida. I still would have like to see this college season end in a playoff because all of the top 5 teams reallly deserve a shot however, that is the nature of the beast with College Football.
So what should we do as fans of this game that always ends in debate? Obviously it is time for a playoff system, but as long as millions of fans continue to accept the BCS as their so called championship game we will always just keep talking. Imagine this for a second, if the pros used a ranking system and New England a perfect 16 and 0 before the Super Bowl last year was just given the championship trophy because they were undefeated. Even thou they were perfect for so many weeks they still were beatable in the Super Bowl by the New York Giants and in the end we know who won and we saw an accurate champion. Even 16 and 0 or even 13 and 0 which, is usually the standard in College Football as a perfect season, is still not good enough at least for me until they decide it by a process of elimination. Any team no matter how good can win or lose any night and for some reason in division I College Football the so called experts of the BCS completely ignore this big assumption. Tha nature of sports right now is about finding out who is the real champion, and every major sport does it but Division I College Football. I love tradition just like any other but times of the new age athlete has brought us to the times of change. There is too much parody and too many fat wallets in Colege Football and something need’s to change.
