Tuesday, November 21, 2006

What if the BCS Ran Everything?

Now that we are in year 9 of the BCS experiment, we decided it would be time to look back upon the college football landscape of the last quasi-decade, and, after careful consideration and multiple bong hits, we came to this conclusion: This thing really sucks ass.

Let's recap, shall we?

98-99: Controversy involving Kansas St...

00-01: Controversy involving Florida St...

01-02: Controversy involving Nebraska...

03-04: Split National Championship

04-05: Controversy involving Auburn, which subjected us to months of southern people complaining about the SEC being robbed. No one should have to deal with that...

So, once again, the BCS sucks. In yet another effort to prove this may be worse idea since that time we wore pantyhose in junior high, we took a look at what would transpire if the BCS ruled other things in life.

Major League Baseball: Riding a wave of popularity following their last minute division championship, the Minnesota Twins snuck into the #2 BCS spot, despite being behind Detroit in the computer rankings, settting them up for a 7 game World Series loss to the Yankees, the consensus #1. Left out in the cold were the St Louis Cardinals, who dropped out of the BCS picture altogether following their late season collapse...

National Football League: The Indianapolis Colts, strong all season, occuppied the first spot, taking on the New England Patriots, who went on to win their third straight BCS Championship game. #3 Denver Broncos played the #5 Seattle Seahawks after narrowly missing out on the #2 spot. BCS #8 Pittsburgh defeated at-large selection Dallas...

Job Interviews: Despite strong resumes from multiple midwestern educated candidates, the Championship comes down to the preppy kid whose dad was a founding partner but has never actually worked in his life (The ACC) and the hot girl with a huge rack that can't even type her name but draws a large TV audience (Notre Dame)...