The spectre of the dual National Champion 'rears its beautiful head'There comes a time in our mission to strew anarchy across college football and destroy the bowl system root and branch when our rooting each week for giant upsets becomes possibly counter productive. The down side of weekly upsets is that the BCS system actually tends to make sense once every five years (at least not be majorly unfair), and to destroy this system, we must make sure it never makes sense. We wish to make sure that there is no clear cut choice of only two teams with a legitimate claim to the title game. For now, we feel secure in the validity of our claims will be see by all @ this point in the season- but things can change.
This week is a great example of the duality of our wishes: down again goes the #1 team in the nation- this time, our assassin was Illinois in its 28-21 upset of formerly unbeaten Ohio State. Boston College lost for the second week in a row and dropped them out of any possible hope for a BCS bowl. These two losses leave seven teams with one loss and one with none- Kansas*. So far , so good- eight teams with a good claim.
NCAA football expert John Suanders told the national television audience in the minutes after the Ohio State upsets that he believed there “could be a split national championship this year.” This sense of anarchy about having no satisfactory system of crowning a champion continues and hopefully will last until the end of the season. Good- fuck this system!
But with Missouri (9-1) at Kansas (10-0) on 24 November and the winner probably playing Oklahoma (9-1) in the Big 12 title game, two more teams will fall out of the BCS race with a loss. That will leave six teams with a legitimate claim to the BCS title game. Any more upsets can potentially whittle the field down to just two one or no loss teams- a public relations disaster for our side. However, all in all, we stand committed to a continued campaign of upsets in the hopes that there will be no teams without at last two losses. But- even if only two teams remain with one loss and meet in the BCS title game, we still despise this horrible system for settling a “national champion”. Do it like every other level of football or indeed every sort in the NCAA- by a playoff. Fuck the bowls!
This week brings more upsets chances. Ohio State, still with only one loss and currently #7 in the AP, plays @ # 23 Michigan. AP #5 West Virginia plays @ #21 Cincinnati (8-2), and Oklahoma plays @ Texas Tech (7-4). Although I warned all readers last week to watch for a possible upset in the Ohio State - Illinois game, I don’t see any upsets this week. However, Ohio State was the NINTH team this system to be upset by an unranked team, so whom knows what will happen. Check back here next week.
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*= not included in that count for now includes 9-0 Hawaii and 9-1 Boise State. I’ll handle their case later.
2 comments:
I used to think like Hilts, that the BCS System was bogus and corrupt and didn't always produce the best team for a National Champion. I also thought that a obviously a playoff would be better, but I've changed my mind.
With the current system, each week in college football means something, it's like 12 weeks of playoff games. Sure the ending may be sometimes unsatisfactory, but would you rather have the regular season turned into nothing with people holding out players because they know they already have a playoff spot? Obviously not.
The only thing I might change is two have a 4 team playoff. That's it. And even that I'm not sure of. The entertainment value of college football has never been higher, I think making a less meaning regular season is not the way to improve it.
its osu or bust!
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