Monday, September 18, 2006

Is College Football fair?

That's what I've been asking myself all day after the aftermath of the weekend of "Separation Saturday."

In this day and age in college football every game counts. If you lose just one game, you can kiss your national championship hopes goodbye. In the NFL, teams that have lost 2, 3, 4, or 5 games can still win the Superbowl, but not when it comes to the NCAA. Many people have done enough complaining about the BCS system but let me complain a little bit more...

Texas falls to Ohio State last weekend. The #2 team fell to the #1 team and they drop out of the top five. As far as I'm concerned, nobody from #3 down proved that they can beat you, so why the drop?

Notre Dame, Tennessee, and LSU all dropped in the polls after their losses this past weekend and their National Championship hopes were lost in the process.

Is this unfair to those teams that book big games (that obviously get a lot of press & hype) lose their national championship hopes?

I know that we (the media and the fans) enjoy these games and would miss not having them on the schedule. So how do we compromise? The last thing we want to see is all the teams having cupcake games all season.

It's also unfair to these students who have the pressures of school and football, but yet also have the pressure to be perfect every time they step on the field because their NC hopes depend on it.

The question remains though: how do you fix college football?

1 comment:

John Edwards said...

Who is this phantom Chris Cross?