BCS Bowl Game Announced
I’ll be quite honest, I think the BCS game is okay this year. I believe that Florida is a more complete team than Alabama this year (maybe not next year) and that Oklahoma is the best representative from the Big 12. It’s hard to argue with Oklahoma’s offensive production and it will be interesting to see how their defense rises to the challenge. We’ll get to see a potential future Heisman winner in Bradford against the reigning Heisman owner Tebow. I’m looking forward to the game.
Texas settles for Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl, and Texas Tech drops all the way to the Cotton Bowl to play Mississippi. That’s a spot that some had going to LSU until they dropped their last several games. LSU did get invited to a bowl game. They’ll travel to Atlanta to play Georgia Tech in the Peach Chick-fil-A Bowl on December 31st. Apparently it’s only on ESPN, so unless a local station picks it up I won’t be watching it.
The Rose Bowl has to be happy, as they have their traditional pairing all wrapped up. I hope that USC blows out Penn State and the ratings are terrible… or that Penn State blows out USC and the ratings are terrible… either way, I hope that the Rose Bowl gets a terrible game so they will be more likely to listen to reason and consider a playoff system.
I read a really compelling post by a sportwriter on Yahoo the other day. He set up a sixteen team playoff system where every major conference champion gets a bid as well as (I think) five at-large berths. That means that the power conferences would get extra representatives (so Alabama and Florida would both be invited, as well as Texas and potentially Texas Tech) and all of the conference champs (Boise State, for example) get to go as well. He pointed out that if money is the problem, all they have to do is look at the advertising and other revenues generated by the “March Madness” put on by college basketball to see the potential. Hopefully we’ll see something like that come about.
It could not happen too soon.