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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Laughable: BCS system is a joke

By Lenox Rawlings
Winston-Salem Journal


The Iowa caucus may be a goofy way to nominate a presidential candidate, but the Iowa caucus can’t hold a burning corncob next to college football.

A few years back, the NCAA officially handed college football’s upper division to a cartel of six major conferences and Notre Dame, the confederacy operating under the acronym BCS.

BCS purportedly stands for Bowl Championship Series. Now that the 2007 machinations have fixed the matchups, maybe BCS should stand for Burning Corncob Smell.

From opening day until the last day, every viable contender tripped over the 50-yard line at least once. As the upset toll mounted, ESPN windbags and assorted experts declared that the dust had settled and the pecking order had been restored. Naturally, it hadn’t. Ohio State lost a home game to Illinois. Louisiana State coughed up a home game against Arkansas. Missouri and West Virginia floated to the top, but Oklahoma beat Missouri again in the Big 12 title game and West Virginia gagged at home against four-win Pitt despite the courtesies of Big East refs auditioning as jewel thieves.

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