How The BCS Failed Yet AGAIN

Everyone who knows me knows that I am a HUGE college football fan. Let's face it, I'm a degenerate. I mean who else actually set the DVR for the UL-Lafayette-San Diego State New Orleans Bowl match-up? I get the shakes in late August and it is like Christmas Eve for me the night before college football begins. Listen, I want a playoff, but I still watch every bowl game I can. College football is college football.

I cannot believe I am actually admitting this, and it says something for the system. I turned off the BCS Title game at halftime, and did not record it. There, I said it. I felt bad until I found out that most of the rest of America did as well. This was the lowest rated BCS title game EVER.

YOU KNOW WHY? Let me count the ways:

1 - How in the world can someone who did not even win their own division, let alone conference, play for the title?
No doubt Alabama was the best team on Monday night. Do they deserve to be the one team to hold the crystal? That is for everyone to decide, but in my opinion, no way.

2. The regular season - Where Every Game Matters!! (Until it doesn't)
Don't tell me the regular season matters, when a team who loses at home and gets another chance - to play the same team! That is comical.

3 - The "Tebow Factor"
The day of the title game, what was 98% of the sports world talking about? The Tim Tebow pass on the first play of overtime. FACT. You don't schedule the title game AFTER NFL WILD-CARD WEEKEND.

Having said all this, I am not saying Alabama was not the best team in the country. In fact, I think in a four team playoff, I think Bama would have won, but I do think there would have been much more drama. In fact, I don't think LSU would have beaten Oklahoma State.

No matter to myself or most in the country, but when you love a sport and get this type of ending, how much longer will the country put up with it? If you look at ratings, not long.

Paul Maxwell