The college football season is at an end, and as usual, we have several undefeated teams and no real meaningful playoff system. However, that’s okay, because that means that the yearly glut of bowl games will continue unabated! Yay for 34 relatively exciting football games after the season! The meaningful games, of course, are the games of the BCS championship fivesome: the Rose Bowl presented by Citi, the Allstate Sugar Bowl, the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the FedEx Orange Bowl, and the Citi BCS national championship game itself (played in the Rose Bowl this year).
This year, five undefeated teams are taking spots in the BSC games, and four of them playing one another. For the national championship, you’ve got undefeated Alabama and undefeated Texas squaring off. Also squaring off are undefeated Boise State and undefeated TCU, thereby giving the non-power conference teams no shot at repeating embarassments of previous years, where unbeaten midmajors like Utah and Boise State beat power players like Alabama, Oklahoma, and Pittsburgh.
I’m one of the few people that isn’t in favor of a playoff system for college football. The college football regular season is the only regular season in sports in which a loss can end your season. Every game is important under the current system; however, I also love to see upsets. There’s no reason an undefeated 12-0 TCU or 13-0 Boise State don’t deserve to get some chance to prove that their gaudy win totals aren’t legitimate. Let Boise beat up on Iowa! Let TCU take on Georgia Tech’s awesome triple option!
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