Thursday, December 07, 2006

The Best Article You'll Ever Read About the BCS

Courtesy of The Onion.

Some highlights:

"I think this year more than any other year proves that the BCS is working," ESPN College GameDay anchor Lee Corso said during a live broadcast from Ohio State's campus. "The system does an excellent job taking into consideration things that poll voters don't even think about: strength of schedule, whether or not the team won their conference, total distance the teams' fans are willing to travel for bowl games, average amount spent on souvenirs by alumni, and grade point average. After all those things, it's Ohio State, baby. And only Ohio State."

Corso then put on the costume head of Ohio State mascot Brutus Buckeye and was met with cheers from thousands of students.

The scary thing is, I can actually picture him saying that.

And no Onion article on College Football would be complete without a dig at Notre Dame:

All coaches interviewed supported Meyer's claim, with the notable exception of Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis, who said that despite his team's two losses, weak schedule, and unremarkable defense, he still felt in his heart that Notre Dame deserved a chance at the title—a feeling that, according to a BCS official who wished to remain anonymous, was not completely overruled.

"First of all, I should note that although Notre Dame is an independent, and a highly regarded independent at that, it does not have its own special set of rules as far as determining its football team's rankings," the official said. "Instead, we use a special set of mathematical algorithms to determine its football team's rankings, which the BCS specifically determines only after ranking all the other teams. And though I shouldn't say this, we—er, the computer—would have dearly loved to have seen Notre Dame in the championship."

And that, folks, should be the last word on the BCS until Fall 2007.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

For Cal grads, and anyone else in the Pac 10 and Big 10 conferences, the BCS isn't good.

Individual Bowl games and their status like the Rose Bowl are diminished by the Championship Series. Used to be that regradless of what happened in the Cotton, Sugar, Orange, Astro-bluebonnet (remember that one)? The Rose bowl was the grandaddy of them all. The perect New Year's day bowl and rich with it's own tradition. The BCS is for schools like Miami and others in need of that tradition and status.

Now if the Bears could by some miracle find their way to Pasadena before I die, I'll be grateful. Not that I'm holding my breath. I've learned my lesson. Keep the expectations low in order to be pleasently surprised.

Sutton