It Just Gets Worse

Another BCS game, another blowout. For a season that was excitingly unpredictable, the bowl season has been lackluster. The BCS bowls, which in theory should be the most exciting games of the bowl season, have certainly been the worst. Last night's West Virginia dismantling of Oklahoma followed the example set by Southern Cal and matched by Georgia. Total, utter devastation.

How did we get to the point where the most prolific and highly anticipated games of the post-season turn out to be such utter duds? Wasn't the BCS supposed to make things better? Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal writes...

The BCS doesn’t exist to produce great matchups or even a truly deserving national champ. It exists to give the impression that a deserving national champ will be crowned even though the overarching goal is to preserve the bowl system in all its moneyed bloat.

Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports.com was (sarcasm!) slightly less diplomatic in his online column yesterday...

If you haven't noticed, we're two-fifths of the way through the BCS matchups and the games stink. Georgia and USC have won by a combined 63 points against opponents who were -- how to say it delicately? -- sub-standard. Georgia and USC squaring off in Pasadena would have been better than the slop we were subjected to on Tuesday. But the Sugar Bowl never would have released the Bulldogs, so we were subjected to BCS jail.

The Sunday Morning Quarterback blog puts it this way...

A New Year's wish today for the Orange Bowl: a halfway watchable game. The BCS has brought us two straight nights and one much-anticipated afternoon of excruciating blowout football salvaged only by the very anathemic tears of Colt Brennan.

You know, and I know, that the BCS isn't going anywhere. A playoff (like Division I-AA, Div. II, Div. III, NCAA baseball, NCAA basketball, NCAA women's basketball, NCAA hockey) could never work, some idiots say. Other idiots say the BCS is really the best possible system.

Well, this idiot knows the BCS is screwed. This idiot knows the memory of the spectacular 2007 college football season is being tarnished by the lunacy that is the BCS. This idiot knows the system is broken, and I hear a lot of other people who agree.

New Year's Day used to be a magical day for college football fans. Now, the magic ends when the BCS games begin.