Latest BS from the BCS
According to the Associated Press:

Bowl Championship Series officials plan to introduce a new formula tomorrow in an effort to decrease controversy surrounding the championship game. The new formula is expected to include only results from the Associated Press' media poll, the coaches' poll and computer rankings. It will NOT include other factors like bonus points for quality wins and strength of schedule. The B-C-S was criticized last year for the third time in four seasons. Critics say the old formula excluded teams from the championship that rightfully belonged. The new formula will take effect this season. The B-C-S has also decided to add a fifth game beginning in 2006.

These dolts just do not get it, do they?

What is the most exciting and well-loved sports event in our society? The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. You know: March Madness. The Final Four. A couple weeks of athletic meritocracy in action. If I haven't watched a whole game all year, I will shut down and ride the couch for hours and days on end to watch as much of that tournament as they will give me. I love it more than a Super Bowl or the second week of Wimbledon. I love it more than a Game Seven of the World Series or watching a race car flip into the stands at a 120 MPH. I will watch Eastern Bumfuck State take on Inner Mongolia Tech if that's what's on.

My point is that everyone loves to see these kids play for it all. Maybe you can argue with the seeding but, once they're on the floor, any school can beat any other. Or at least they might. And that's the thing. Championships are earned in the NCAAs. And every college sport has its playoffs and champions. Even every division of college football has a playoff system leading to an undisputed championship.

Except one. The most important one.

There is no argument that justifies the present system of determining a champion in Division I-A college football. And it pisses me off to hear the lame rationale of the foot-draggers and paid-off gristleheads who try to defend it.

If they had a 16-team field and four weekends to do it in, big time college football could have the greatest thing on its hands since sliced bread. Because nobody's watching the Poulan Weedeater Bowl on a Thursday night in the middle of December between a couple of schools with maybe two or three more wins between them than losses. Nobody's getting rich and nobody cares.

But in a true playoff system, everyone would care and everyone would watch. And the ad revenues would be sky-high because there would be something on the line to draw the viewers in and fill the stadiums up.

I don't care how you do it, Mr. Athletic Director and Mr. College President, but it has to be done. Quit thinking like you're in the 1950s and dump this anachronistic nonsense. The BCS is just your way of slowly "giving in." But you should give up giving in and get us what we deserve, which are football championships played out on the field instead of decreed by polls.

That is all.