college football and the BCS are for tools

College football just sucks. I mean, there's just no getting around it. It is the only league that values opinion and computers to determine rankings. It is the only league that is anti-climatic. Sure, the regular season usually has a couple of really good saturdays. I prefer sundays to saturdays, but college football games themselves can be very entertaining.

The problem lies in the method in which they go about crowning champions. Instead of simply having a playoff like every other league, they go with this idiotic bowl system that makes no sense. Going back in history, if someone told you about a certain teams' performance in the sugar bowl a few years back, you won't know if that year was the year when that particular bowl determined the national champion or if it was just an off year. It's ridiculous. The wolrd series, the superbowl, the NBA finals, and the NCAA basketball tournaments are the best. Throughout the entire season, stats and opinions have their weight, but when it comes down to determining who's the best, it is left up to the teams themselves to prove their worthiness. There's no room for underdogs or anything in college football. There will always be underdogs in all the other sports, and no, the relatively weaker team of the two best college football teams does not count as being an underdog.

Case in point, in any other sport, the only way to beat the best is by actually beating them. Not so in college football. Today, after the Texas longhorns didn't beat the best team, leapfrogged USC ahead of the poll that will determine who will win the national championship match-up. On the surface it looks silly, seeing how USC is the two-time champs and have yet to lose. But many will say this won't change the match-up of USC v. Texas nor will it change the venue. So, I guess it doesn't really matter, right? wrong.

If you think about it, it is theoretically possible for USC to go undefeated this year and be ranked third by the BCS system? The current third team right now is Virginia Tech and they are very close to the top two teams. On top of that, Virginia Tech has three remaining games against top-15 teams this season. If they are so highly ranked now without having played those teams, how much further will they go up the poll if they were also to go undefeated this year? I mean, think about it. It could be Virginia Tech v. Texas for the national championship without USC losing a single game or either of those two teams actually beating USC. Now, hopefully it doesn't come to this, but that is precisely the point. It could, just like Auburn got screwed out of it last year for no good reason, USC could be screwed out of even the chance of defending their title after they won every game on their schedule. You can't control how the teams you've beaten perform against other teams later in the season, which is used as an indicator of how good you are. It's just fucking ridiculous.

College football has by far the worst system of crowning champions.

College football could be a very good league if they simply entered a tournament. I don't understand this whole tradition and history crap. That shit's overrated, especially when it gets in the way of good competition. History can be anything. It's basically an event that occurred in the past. That's it. Tradition on the other hand, is just silly. It's basically repeating the same actions year in and year out, just to have some sort of normalcy around people's lives.

So, while im sure the people that make these decisions aren't going to even consider changing the current format, ill at least know what ill be doing come december and january; rooting for them colts.

How about them Colts

You know, the last couple of weeks have been pretty good as far as sports are concerned. I know over in Washington, D.C. things are kind of shaky. I'll get to all that political stuff at another post.

Right now, it's all about sports. Right now, it's all about the Colts.

The only undefeated team in the NFL should be re-labeled as the best team yet to be tested. If you look at a 16 game schedule, there will undoubtedly, for good teams anyways, be "soft patches"; that is, there will be a six game stretch of not so hard teams. Sometimes good teams are tested early, or sometimes good teams are tested late. For the Colts, they will be tested late and often. They have six hard games left on their schedule. That is to say, they are guaranteed three more wins, giving them 10 wins by default. The six hard games will begin dramatically against the team that has been giving them fits over the past couple of seasons. Monday, November 7, 2005.... will be a day that will live in..... alright, maybe im being overdramatic, but that monday night game will determine how those six games are going to go. If the colts win big, then they'll go 5-1 against the big six (NE, PIT, JAX, SEA, CIN, and SD). If they lose big, they'll go 3-3, and if it's either a close loss or win, they should get four games.

Having said that, there are certain things that need to be worked on during these next two weeks that they have off. First of all, when in doubt, give the fucking ball to Edgerrin James. You know, the most valuable and disrespected player ever. I mean, this guy is the reason why the colts aren't 5-2. He's the reason why the Colts went 13-3 during his first year. There's a reason why he has two rushing titles, going on three. There's a reason he runs for more than a hundred-yard games during his career than anyone. There's a reason why he'll win the super bowl MVP. I guarantee you now, and im sure this post will seem dated in a couple of weeks, that if James rushes for more than 110 yards and a touchdown, the colts will win easy. If not, there'll be trouble for Manning, 'cause I assure you the Patriots are gunning for the Colts. They seem to get their kicks from beating Indy. They have a chance of knocking them off the rank of undefeated, which is the next best thing to knocking them off the playoffs.

If you ask me, it should make for great television.