More on the BCS

How typical for the football player to engage in this conversation. Here it goes.....

I would agree that the BCS has often been wrong with its choice of teams to play for the national championship every year (with the exception of the USC-Texas game in 2005, which happened to be the greatest college football game ever played). However, I wouldn't say that the teams who have been clearly outmatched in their games is necessarily because they were unlucky. It's because they come from wealthier backgrounds. Take the most recent example, Ohio State. One of the most storied programs in college football, most if not all considered the 2006 team the best in the country and possibly the best team Ohio State has ever produced. They played against seemingly the best competition, beating then #2 Michigan in a game dubbed "judgment day" by the media and atrracted the largest televison audience for any regular season game ever. However, as demonstrated by the Buckeyes and Wolverines's veritable disembowlment in their bowl games at the hands of Florida and USC, respectively, it became clear that the pool of talent in the Big 10 did not come close to that found in the SEC, PAC 10 and Big 12.

While luck certainly played a factor in Ohio State's berth in the National Championship game last year, their placement came under the most unimaginable of circumstances. In the three weeks from when they played their last game to the final release of the BCS games, all nine teams ranked above them lost. This was unprecedented and unlikely to be defeated. As determined by bowl records over the last few years, the dominant conferences this year are the Big 12 and the SEC, neither of which can forseeably have a two-loss conference champion at this point (unless Missouri somehow figures out how to compete with teams that beat them by an average margin of 36). The best teams will be in the National Championship this year, but the barometer of talent is unsustainable. The system will be wrong again, and that's why this issue should be resolved with an eight team playoff, with automatic bids for the BCS conference champions and two at-large teams.