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.