I am not a fan of having the BCS Championship game this far away from New Year's day. After New Year's I quickly get out of college football mode...partly because my Cavaliers season is always over by New Year's day at the latest. Tonight is the BCS championship game and I am just out of the college football frame of mind. I am already thinking about next year's team, wrapping up the current recruiting class, and watching college basketball. I know this is all about advertising dollars and sponsorship money, so I doubt this will change. However, if I were king and could set the date for the BCS championship, I think the evening of January 2nd would be the date. I would smatter all the BCS bowls across January 1st and 2nd with an 8:00 kick for the title game.
Speaking of the BCS, I may be one of the few that feel this way, but I have no interest whatsoever in a playoff system for college football. I think the NCAA would be nuts to implement such a system. College football receives billions of dollars worth of free publicity and public mind share with a completely convoluted and seemingly arbitrary system to pick the teams for a championship game...like the one in place today. The arguments, complaints, and caterwauling are nationwide when BCS selections are announced. Strident discussions and high-pitched arguments over the selected teams, omitted teams, the BCS system...what could be better? At the end of the day, it is just college football. What better topic for bar room chatter and lunchtime debate. I think a definitive playoff system would take half of the fun out of college football for the average fan.
I am going with LSU tonight. I know it is easy to claim in retrospect, but I went with the Gators last year against OSU. I think the SEC remains the best college football conference, probably followed by the Pac-10. I think the Big-10 is behind the evolutionary curve in college football. The power game is out. Speed, Spread, and Special Teams...that is what wins today. LSU should win this on talent alone, although the biggest worry I have about OSU is that they have an axe to grind after they got beat last year in a game in which they were heavily favored. I still think that LSU speed will carry the day.
BTW, if I were king, while I would do a lot of things not related to college football, I would move the date of the Virginia/Virginia Tech game to the Saturday before Thanksgiving rather than the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I think that the home game on a Saturday when many students are still out on break detracts from the game atmosphere. If I were king I would also make all the VPI players who are "Apparel Management" majors sit out one quarter of every game when they play UVa.
One last college football note. FSU suspended a truckload (over 30) players caught up in a cheating scandal prior to the Music City Bowl. I bet you can't name the class the payers were taking that was so difficult they had to cheat. If you said "History of Online Music" move to the head of the class. You have to be kidding me! First, there is a class on the history of online music? Second, I am pretty sure I could get an "A" on that exam right now, not having ever taken the class. How long is that history afterall, maybe 7 years? I know that is alot of history to have to cam into a full college semester. Maybe there is a history of online apparel management class that FSU and VPI can share...on line.
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