A College Football Diatribe...

I am just adding my voice to the cacophony of frustrations with the current BCS system. I want to first highlight that if Oregon St. wins the "civil war" this weekend they get to go to the Rose Bowl to play a Penn St. team that beat them 45-14 in week 2. I really don't know how you sell this one to the fans of either team.

Secondly the ACC and the Big East are painfully mediocre, but yet their respective champions each get to play in a BCS bowl even though both eventual conference champions will not finish within the top 15 of the BCS standings. They need to revise the rules so that a major conference champion must also finish within the top 15 of the BCS standings, considering that is the litmus test for a mid-major conference to get a bid to a BCS bowl, not to mention they have to finish undefeated too. I am sure the powers at be of the Orange Bowl are just relishing the prospect of having the winners of the worst two major conferences face off.

For all you Buckeye fans out there you should be rooting your heads off this weekend for the Oregon Ducks because their victory should pave the way for the Buckeyes to get their 5th straight trip to a BCS bowl because rules bar more than 2 teams from a single conference getting bids and there is no way a bowl picks another mid-major over a Buckeye fan base which will buy out the town. (Most likely the Fiesta Bowl vs. the unfortunate Big 12 south team that is at the behest of the arbitrary feelings of Coaches and Harris poll voters, so Texas unless the other OSU beats the Sooners...)

On a final note it was pitiful to watch the Wolverines this past weekend. I know Buckeye nation loves the fact that they trounced "the team from up north," but in my view the vivid disparity in the two teams is really a detriment to the greatest storied rivalry in college football. As I was pointing out to one of my friends, I am the biggest Michigan fan except when the play the Buckeyes, what kind of competitor wants to beat up on an inferior opponent? The aura of this game is incredible because of the tradition and fierce competition usually with other national implications on the line. Did anyone else notice how much time gameday spent in the South this year? I hate the south, go BIG TEN!

-Big Red

PS- I also have to give a shout out to my alma mater, the Denison University "Big Red," who finished the season with a 6-4 record. I know that isn't stellar but it is better than when I played and I would like to add that we beat POTUS's original choice for matriculation, Alleghany...