It happened to me again this past Saturday. I sat in my chair in front of my TV watching another mind-boggling heart warming heartbreaking, heart attack inducing day of college football in November.
I sat there dazed and confused not because that is the title of an American classic but because the Bowl Championship Series, BCS, makes absolutely no common sense. The BCS will be non-existent next season for major college football but until then were left to figure out a ridiculous puzzle that exist for ridiculous reasons.
People out there that didn’t see college football this weekend missed a bevy of incredible games played at levels so intense you could feel the pressure cracking the windows in your room. Ohio State and Michigan fought to the death almost literally at one point and Auburn and Alabama played what might be the greatest game ever to take place in the month of November.
Johnny Football was continued to be made human by Missouri, Duke football made their fans say “Coach K who?” for about five seconds, and Florida State continued there path of merciless destruction.
After all was said and done all I could do was put my hands on my head and think here we go again. Experts and analysts made predictions that made all the football sense in the world when it came to Alabama vs. Auburn. Alabama was the number one team in the country and should of beat Auburn by two touchdowns because logic said Auburn’s luck would run out against a two-time defending national champion.
Guess what under the rule of the BCS by decree nothing will ever make sense in the land of college football.
The Auburn Tigers beat a team that scored a 99-yard touchdown against them from its own one-yard line. They beat Nick Saban the Savior of the BCS regime because everybody already thinks Nick Saban is the best so if he gets picked to compete in the national title game every year they look like geniuses that came up with an ingenious system of picking the best team.
He makes the regime say there’s no need for a logical playoff that every major college and professional sports league has because we have our Savior.
A misinformed audience of people out their believe that the BCS works not only because Nick Saban is college football’s version of Bill Belichick without cheap camera tricks, but also because it creates amazingly entertaining games.
They believe it makes the season matter more than any other major college sport’s season.
The issue is that it makes no common sense to those of us baffled and left in awe after what happened this pass Saturday. As Auburn’s Chris Davis returned a missed field goal for a 100-yard touchdown to send every Tiger fan into an insane frenzy I imagined Bane from Dark Knight Rises saying, “let the games begin” right before he blew up half of Gotham.
Everything about what happen on Saturday reminded me of that villain and that scene. Things were going along swimmingly for the BCS, the Savior was going to the title game ranked number one and maybe as a bonus he would actually get some competition before he won another national title. Oh wait though Bane aka Auburn decided they would blow up the BCS’s plans and cause utter chaos and panic.
After the colossal chaotic shake up I listened as experts and analysts tried to wrap their minds around what it means for the blurry national title picture. Even they struggled their way to a logical answer of an illogical puzzle.
The new BCS rankings were released on Sunday night and as of right now Florida State and Ohio State would play in the national title game in January. Auburn, Alabama, and Missouri are right behind them.
If Florida State loses and Ohio State wins does the winner of the SEC title game between Auburn and Missouri go to the national title game to play OSU? What if Florida State wins and OSU wins? Does an undefeated OSU play in the title game or does a one loss SEC champion make the trip.? What if FSU wins and everyone else loses does, FSU get awarded the national title for being obnoxiously dominant? Okay so things have never got that crazy in the BCS regime.
The number of possibilities seems endlessly confusing with the hope of logic nowhere in sight. We just have to stay tuned and see what common sense the BCS will try to make of this remarkable chaos that it created in the first place.
Damone Griffin
Sports Editor
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