Sports Reporters/ BCS

One of my favorite shows on TV on Sunday morning is Sports Reporters on ESPN. It's about the only thing I watch before church. They basically sit around and yell about crap that they have no idea about. Today's topic: the BCS. Jeez, the BCS is not perfect by any means, but it is better than about any other system that's out there without a playoff. For one thing, the season has about 4 weeks left to sort more things out. As everyone saw this weekend with Virginia Tech and UCLA, any team is vulnerable. John Saunders, the only sane one, brought up an excellent point that regular season games would not mean as much with a playoff and of course everyone else disagreed with him. Tommorrow night the Colts play the Patriots in about as big as a regular season game as possible in the NFL. And it's getting maybe a quarter of the coverage that the ND-USC game. Saunders is right. Without a playoff, the NCAA gets a free pass on cashing in on their regular season games. College Gameday is a huge hit because everyone is drawn to the game that the crew is working towards. The other Sports Reporters would disagree of course. Their arguments consist of yelling about a playoff system that inevitably turns into universities using players for money which has little to do with determining a national champion in college football. For fun, I put the 3 big remaining undefeateds and where they would play in the old system:

Texas, winners of the Big 12, would play in the Orange Bowl.
USC, winners of the Pac 10, would play in the Rose Bowl.
Alabama, winners of the SEC, would play in the Sugar Bowl.

The BCS is good for something.