Choose or Lose (MTV Style)
That's all folks. The regular season of college football is over. It's time to put away you toys and go back inside. What's left is a log jam of teams vying for a shot at the National Championship. This season has produced some crazy games and big upsets. Luckily for everyone that likes upsets and mass confusion the teams that played this weekend saved the best for last. With Oklahoma knocking off Missouri and West Virginia falling to Pittsburgh college teams from the Big 12 to the WAC are pulling out their soap boxes and preparing their speeches in hopes of lobbying their team into the Big Game. Sorry Hawaii, but nobody really knows/cares enough about you to really give you a shot. Thanks for playing though.
With numero uno (Missouri) and number two (West Virginia) in the BCS standings losing all hell has broken loose. Now teams like Oklahoma, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, LSU, Georgia, Kansas and possibly USC all have an outside shot at reaching the national championship game. This is where the BSC could take a major hit. Which, in my opinion wouldn't be all that bad. You have a team like Ohio State, which have been done playing competitive football for several weeks. They finished their season back on November 17th. All they have been doing is sitting around the house eating oatmeal creme pies and relaxing. They have let the other teams do the yard work and now they may possibly be getting paid for it.
Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, and LSU have all won their conference championship game. Each also has two losses apiece. Oklahoma could sit here and tell everyone they had to beat the number one team in the nation by 21 to get where they are so why not them. LSU will counter with how they came out on top in arguably one of the nations toughest conferences with a pair of losses in triple overtime games. Virginia Tech's only losses were to LSU which is no push over and Boston College who was number two in the nation at the time. We now see what Tech did to Boston College with another chance.
Finally Georgia and Kansas, who are fourth and fifth is the standings could possibly jump those three teams without even winning their own division in their conferences. What is a voter to do. Do you A) take the teams based on their rankings in the polls or B) choose a conference champion who had to win an extra game just to have a chance to go. Which champion do you even pick. And what about a team that plays no championship game at all but still manages to stay ahead of the pack. We are now left to wait and see what peoples opinions will be to decide who goes. Let me remind you these opinions are coming from ordinary people not geniuses or rocket scientist but overweight, balding and possibly no sports involvement, outside of fantasy sports, in their lives. Well good luck with all that. Maybe a crazy season like the one this year needed to happen to shake up a process that makes no sense at all. Good luck picking the next two teams to play for all the gold bench warmers.
This man could possibly be the deciding factor in voting. Seems to be getting paid well for all his hard work.
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