BCS ISN'T PERFECT, BUT UTAH IS!
As the 2008-2009 college football season ends this weekend, four teams (USC, TEXAS, UTAH, and FLORIDA / OKLAHOMA) will lay claim to being the number one team in the nation. Thanks to the controversial Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system, fans once again are left wondering who really is the best team in college football. Without a playoff to determine a TRUE champion, the problems continue to mount as the current system still does not determine a clear cut winner. Utah's crushing of Alabama in the Sugar Bowl and finishing as the ONLY undefeated team in the nation sends a very clear message to the nation, things need to change.....soon!
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How does a team that goes undefeated, defeats six Top 25 teams and six bowl teams, not turn out to be the NATIONAL CHAMPIONS?
The answer......because college football is so screwed up!
The BCS provided the Utes everything they could have wanted, short of a title opportunity. This was a showcase game. It was Alabama, the SEC and the 75th Sugar Bowl, and the Utes measured up to every bit of the challenge. They tremendously helped themselves and everybody else in the non-BCS classification.
What we have now is .......
USC claiming it's #1
Utah claiming it's #1
Texas claiming it's #1
And the winner of -- Florida or Oklahoma -- of the real BCS National Championship game actually getting hardware to claim it's #1.
The truth is, what the Utes proved better than any college team ever, is that nobody knows nothing no more about who's No. 1.
Nobody ever will until there is a proper playoff.
Without the opportunity to show it on the field, few would have said Utah is a better team than Alabama, or, at least, that the Utes would beat the Tide.
(Right Joe? Still waiting for my apology, ha!)
GO UTES!
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J.D. Jones has worked as a sports editor and coached high school boy's and girls tennis teams. Besides tennis, he is an avid college and pro football and basketball fan - GO UTES!
Posted by J. D. on January 8, 2009 in Football -- College
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I stand corrected. It is so very rare that I am wrong on such things, that I have to admit when I am.
Congrats, for sure, but this much I know: The Utes could NEVER beat OK.
BOOMER SOONER!!!!
:-)
Posted by: Joe Moag | January 08, 2009 at 09:49 AM
"Congrats, for sure, but this much I know: The Utes could NEVER beat OK"
Oh Joe ........ you obviously missed the Shuggah Bow game. NEVER, really NEVER, you gotta stay off the booze, ha!
Just want to prepare you for last place finish in our bowl pick em' contest, oh how the mighty fall.
Posted by: JD | January 08, 2009 at 04:23 PM
Yes, I got the OK/FL incorrect. However, I stand by my assertion that the Utes could never, ever, beat OK.
Of course, under the current arrangement (and perhaps under any arrangement, as a playoff wouldn't guarantee that the 2 teams would meet) we'll never know.
Posted by: Joe Moag | January 09, 2009 at 06:58 AM
"Yes, I got the OK/FL incorrect. However, I stand by my assertion that the Utes could never, ever, beat OK."
I don't know what it is about you Sooner fans and the media, but OK & and Big 12 are way overrated. By the looks of it Utah would've given the Sooners a beating just like my Mountaineers did in last year's Fiesta bowl. Remember that? Lol. And there was so much talk about how Oklahoma should've been in the title game that year because they were the "best" team...which was obviously wrong. Anyway, even with a playoff system...everyone's never gonna be happy.
Posted by: D Law | January 09, 2009 at 11:15 AM
I am no Sooner fan - not by a long shot. Hate the Big 12, actually. I am a Big Ten fan, period. Just pointing out which team I feel is better. I don't pick teams that I like to win, I pick teams that I think are better to win.
And yup, playoffs would just open up a whole new line of bitching and moaning...
As long as people are driven to determine "who is number ONE!!!" instead of enjoying things for what they are, this will never end.
Posted by: Joe Moag | January 09, 2009 at 01:50 PM