This is not the news the people in charge of the Bowl Championship Series wanted to hear, but the two best teams in college football have already played once, went into overtime and are currently ranked first and second.
In the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference.
They are Louisiana State University and the University of Alabama. LSU beat Alabama in overtime a few weeks ago in a game played on Alabama’s home field.
The BCS title game is designed to generate massive television ratings. It is the ultimate college football game, created for television. Don’t allow the nonsense that the game was created to determine the champion of college football confuse you. It was created to use college football to create a revenue stream.
When Alabama plays LSU for the title, which is what should happen, there is a concern among the BCS bosses that the ratings will slip because the teams have already played once.
Alabama and LSU are the best teams in the country. There just isn’t any doubt. They should play again. But the BCS championship game is not about what’s right. It is about the money the game will generate for a television network and all the others with a hand in the cookie jar.
LSU will play Georgia for the SEC championship in December. LSU could lose the SEC title game and still be ranked high enough to get a berth in the national championship game. Thus, two teams who did not win their conference championship could play for the national championship. Crazy? Sure.
But LSU and Alabama are the best teams in the country and nothing is going to change that.
If all of the above sounds like a plea for a playoff among college football’s best teams and conferences, it should not. A playoff system is wrong for the NCAA’s Division I. That subject is best for another blog at another time.
If the BCS does nothing else, it gets all of us talking about college football. We rant, we rave, we get confused. And we talk about college football.
Some of us write about it.
Thanks for reading.
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