College
football title game a mess again
From
the bench
It
must be the second week of December because
the annual search for who snatched the C
out of the BCS continues.
Oh
the computers, hopefully a Terminator will
be sent from the future to destroy these
computers before they ruin another college
football season.
Apparently
the computers like to reward the second
place team in the Big 12 Conference because
this is the second time now that the conference
championship game loser will make it to
the national championship game over a more
qualified Pac 10 team.
Two
years ago the Nebraska Cornhuskers received
the berth into the national championship
game after being smoked by Colorado in the
Big 12 Championship Game over a very qualified
Oregon team. Nebraska again got smoked in
a laugher at the hands of Miami.
It
is likely that Oklahoma could win the national
championship and not even be able to claim
a conference championship. Something doesn't
add up there.
Speaking
of not adding up, take a look at how the
BCS actually decided this farce of a game.
USC was relegated to the Rose Bowl because
its schedule was not as strong as either
Louisiana State or Oklohoma. According to
the BCS Bowling Green State, yes Bowling
Green State also has a stronger schedule
than the Trojans. Yeah, that's Bowling Green,
and for those of you who don't know, and
I was one of them, BGSU is in Ohio, they
play in the MAC which stands for Mid American
Conference.
The
Falcon's, Bowling Green's mascot, stronger-than-Pac-10-schedule
included football powerhouses like Liberty,
Toledo, Eastern Kentucky and made the rounds
of Michigan, playing Eastern, Western and
Central Michigan Universities.
The
Falcons also played and lost to Miami...of
Ohio, another MAC powerhouse is another
of the peculiarities of the BCS. Jeff Sagarin
one of the computer geeks who control the
fate of the college football teams has Miami...of
Ohio rated as the No. 3 team and USC as
the No. 4 team. I guess I should start watching
MAC football if only I can find a satellite
that actually picks up the games.
Back
to the teams who will be playing for the
national championship, LSU edged out USC
because of its stronger schedule which included
Louisiana Monroe, Louisiana Tech and Western
Illinois. Let us not forget that the pseudo-national
championship game is the Sugar Bowl this
year and that the Sugar Bowl is played in
New Orleans. Is there any chance that there
would be more money in an Louisiana State/
Oklahoma game in New Orleans and a USC/
Michigan game in Pasadena?
"What
we have are three very deserving teams and
only two of them are in the game,"
BCS coordinator Mike Tranghese said.
Tranghese,
ABC and the Sears company, the namesake
for the championship trophy will surely
be wearing Michigan blue New Year's Day
hoping that the Wolverines can beat the
Trojans and help the BCS save face and make
it one more controversy-laden season.
Karl
Peterson is print journalism major at CSULB.
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