BCS

Friends,

College football's Bowl Championship Series has about wrapped up its annual offerings. The BCS Championship is set for Monday evening pairing one-loss Ohio State against two-loss LSU. Most of the BCS games have been drubbings with USC clobbering Illinois in the Rose Bowl, Georgia spanking Hawai'i in the Sugar Bowl and West Virginia trouncing Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. Yet, last night underdog, and one-loss, Kansas defeated a solid Virginia Tech team in a close game. Some observations -- if I were commissioner (aka ruler :-) of the BCS, I would not have disrespected Kansas so much and would have had a one loss Kansas playing one loss Ohio State in the National Championship. But, few outside of the state of Kansas wanted to see them play in the Championship...but they did earn their way this year, even if they were not in their conference championship (overrated). Hindsight is always 20-20...not many expected Kansas to beat Virginia Tech (except for me and few other goof balls ;-). Also, a matchup pairing USC and Georgia at some point would have been a great game for the Rose Bowl, perhaps. The Pac 10 still likes to pair up the traditional #1 in their conference against #1 in the Big 10. But, Ohio State played the spoiler by ascending to the National Championship game, so Big 10 #2, Illinois, played in the Rose Bowl, and they were a dog. Missouri should have been in the BCS mix somewhere. If the BCS is going to get some good pairings besides the National Championship, the Bowls are going to have to loosen up their affiliations so that a USC--Georgia match-up could be possible. The Championship should be interesting, but I hope that one day that there will be a playoff, 1 through 8 where its 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7 and so one. You could even have a +1 game after the first round of pairings where you have the two best teams (if this could be determined) coming out of the playoff to play for a Championship. It's a nice dream anyway.

Don

P.S. On a football related note -- go Seahawks!