BCS Mess

Its Florida versus OSU for the College Football title. The choice isn't without some weeping and gnashing of teeth from some quarters of the country. A quick recap on the weekends events

Then #2 USC lost to UCLA 13-9, bouncing the Trojans from a shot at their fourth title game in as many years. The Trojans still have a BCS berth and will face Michigan, who will be in their 2nd Rose Bowl in three years. The Rose Bowl has been a house of horrors for both teams recently. The Trojans are winless in their last two trips there. Michigan got run over by a then relatively unknown sophomore from Texas by the name of Vince Young in the 2005 Rose Bowl, USC got the same treatment last year in the title game.

Florida won a wild SEC title match from a game Arkansas team. The Gators raced out to a 17-0 lead and Gator nation was saying "See we're worthy." Then the Razorback stormed back with 21 points to take the lead. Then the Gators took advantage of a Razorback fumble and turned that into a touchdown. The Gators stretched the lead to 10 at 31-21 but the Razorbacks stayed close. The 38-28 win wasn't really sealed until a late interception squashed a late Razorback drive.

OSU sat quietly watching and waiting to see who their opponent would be. Michigan was busy politicking saying they were the best #2 team in the country and they deserved a 2nd shot at the Bucks.

I'm not a Bucks supporter by any stretch of the imagination , but they won the m atchup on November 18th and earned the right to play for the national title. If the Wolverines had won, I would have said the same thing to Buck fans who would have cried and carped about deserving a second shot. I vigourously disagree with the Sports Reporters John Saunders who insists that the regular season is a high stakes playoff in itself. Thats a load. For those that carp that a rematch in the championship is not different than the NCAA Basketball tourney, consider this. The best teams are usually separated in the brackets and are kept far enough away from one another where they would only meet up in the final four or championship. If they are in the same conference the earliest that they could meet would be the elite eight. These teams would have to go through at least three other teams to get to a rematch. Even in a conference tourney a #1 and #2 seed are on the opposite sides of the bracket destined to only meet in a conference tourney final. If there was a football tourney. (Theres not going to be in my lifetime) or a plus 1 game (theres not) the best teams would have to play at least one other team to get to a rematch. The bottom line is that the a rematch is only good when there is time and competition between the games. A do-over or mulligan is only done in golf and its no good then.