EPEric's Blog

Ohio State and LSU fans rejoice!

Va Tech, Georgia, Oklahoma,  USC fans gripe!

Missouri, Kansas and West Virginia fans wonder "what if."

Illinois' 3 losses come up smelling roses.

Hawaii is unbeaten, but won't win the title (remember when BYU did).

Such is life in the era of the BCS.  Now we're left with argument after argument after argument about who the best college football team is.

If Ohio State wins, it's hard to argue against them, or is it.  The Big Ten is a joke (and I grew up in the Midwest, so if anything I might be an apologist), and LSU would be their only legitimate win (sorry Michigan and Penn State fans).  Wins against Youngstown State, Akron and Kent State hardly make a national champ to me.

If LSU wins,  at least they can claim a whuppin of Virginia Tech (sorry Cindy Farmer) and wins over Florida and Auburn, but only two two loss teams have ever been national champs.

Everybody else is flawed too.  So let's have a playoff.  All the other sports do it, ah but here's the catch.  The pros have a handful of teams.  The BCS is supposed to help major college football narrow the focus to a few elite leagues, but as long as "big time" programs schedule cupcakes, you won't be able to narrow the BCS to 8 teams very often.  11 or 12 have arguments this year.  Wanna play Florida in a bowl game?  The Gators aren't even in the BCS.

We'll give a national champion a big crystal trophy right here on FOX January 7th.  Trophies make things seem real, but to me it's still a mythical champ.  We'll argue some more after Virginia Tech or USC or Georgia thumps somebody in their bowl game.  We'll argue a playoff is what we need.  All the other sports do it.  Really?  Oh wait, March Madness is coming.  Bubbles will be burst.  Teams will complain, "why were we left out when (name your mid-major or 6th place major conference team) is in?"  College fans across the country will get in a whole new set of arguments.

Anyone on your block arguing someone is better than the Patriots?  Anyone on your block argue over who's best in the NBA, MLB or NHL?  Following college sports isn't so bad after all is it!