Knives and Daggers-College Football style

We take on the Bowl Championship Series today in Knives and Daggers along with other things that I hate in the college football world.

The biggest knife goes to the BCS,which is held up as the greatest way to determine a national champion.
Well,who holds that up?
THEY DO!
Between their Pravda like official site and this winner in where they shoot down any other option to be considered,they completely treat with disdain any other idea.
I can understand that,some of them would lose their jobs,but it still is ridiculous.
Their claim is that their job is to provide a 1 vs 2 matchup,but the problem becomes when you have to decide who they are.
In a year like this where five teams are undefeated,can the title really be settled with one game?
Not to me anyway.
Alabama is a given,but the other spot went to Texas for two reasons-Name recognition and Mack Brown (more on that putz later).
Normally,the Big 12 is a tough conference and there are lots of name teams there,but this is a really down year for them.
Don't believe me?Tell me why the Fiesta Bowl was forced into a position of almost having to take Boise State instead of a second Big 12 team because they didn't qualify a team into the BCS.


Another dagger to goes to the BCS for having TCU play Boise State.
Granted,their Poinsetta Bowl game last year (17-16 TCU win) was one of the best bowl games of the season,but as good as the game will be and will likely produce the number 2 team in the final rankings,wouldn't you have rather seen each get a chance at a BCS school instead,like Cincinnati is against Florida.
Wouldn't the BCS look bad to have TCU hammer Georgia Tech and Boise State crush Iowa and wouldn't the story of the little guy getting their chance been better?
TCU vs Boise State looks great on paper and I am looking forward to it,but overall,I liked the other lineup better.....

The next knife goes to the biggest crying self promoter in Mack Brown.
Mack Brown pushes Texas beyond belief for spots in the BCS that classier coaches sit back and get screwed over for.
Remember the Aaron Rodgers Cal team that had a BCS spot,then won their final game and yet DROPPED in the BCS standings due to Mack Brown's relentless PR garbage?
Click here for exact quotes by Mack Brown and his shameless huckstering.
Brown then whined last season when Texas didn't play for the title and Oklahoma did despite UT winning their matchup.
What Brown left out was that Texas,Oklahoma and Texas Tech all lost just one game on the season and in conference in their round robin (Texas over Oklahoma,Texas Tech over Texas and Oklahoma over Texas Tech) and it really did come down to the voters.
Funny,I don't remember Mack boo hooing as they collected a big Fiesta Bowl check as Texas Tech (who beat them!) collected half of that for a Cotton Bowl berth.
And for all of Mack's smack about scheduling,TCU went on the road and beat Clemson and Virginia (UVA isn't very good,but considering when they were scheduled (years ago)-you can see TCU was trying),while Cincinnati traveled to Oregon State and beat a good Beavers team,scheduled Fresno State and a Big Ten team in Illinois.
Texas? Well,they went to 6-6 Wyoming and played Central Florida,UTEP and Louisiana Monroe at home.
I understand about playing these teams,but wouldn't one tough team be showing some confidence?
I haven't even gotten into his crying,bully routine on Saturday's last play against Nebraska.
I think the officials got it right,but a skeptic could argue that the Big 12 might have lost a sizable amount of bowl money had that second went off the clock and after a last second win over a less than dominant Nebraska team,although watching Ndamukong Suh of the Huskers made me smile thinking of him as a Cleveland Brown-(WOW!), there was old Mack beating the PR drum.
I have never liked Alabama and they were likely the best team in the land,but here is hoping they smoke Texas by 40....

You want to stick it to the BCS?
Root for this scenario-Alabama crushes Texas,TCU and Boise State play the best and most exciting game of the bowl season (pick the team you would rather root for,it makes no difference) and Cincinnati is able to drop Florida....
Imagine the controversy then,three undefeated teams and a fourth with one exciting loss to an undefeated team,that makes them look really bad.

Our final dagger goes to the people out there that thinks a playoff solves all of these issues.
Now a playoff in any format (2 ,4,8 or 16 teams) is far preferable to the current mess,but only if all league champions have bids does anything change and that means a 16 team tournament.
An eight team tourney sounds good,until you realize that the BCS automatics take six of the eight right off the bat.
In other words,you still have the issues involving the TCU's of the world getting their chance to play for the gold.
Yes,that does beat the status quo,but far from a great answer....

Back later with a tape review of the Browns loss to the Chargers...