Still Rampaging and Waiting for Someone to Engage

The BCS is goofy and money-driven, and every 7 years the wrong team wins the championship, but the team that allegedly should have at least had a chance still gets a huge chunk of money and national notoriety and school pride, but must hear it from the media day in and day out that they deserve more, because the media wants a champion for whatever reason, not realizing that it will inevitably soften the best regular season in the sports.
So in one sardonic run-sentence, I have effectively stated my confused position. Because if I knew nothing about the BCS and somebody told me they decided the college football championship based on a mathematical equation, and the votes of men and women who do not strap on a uniform, I would say, "that's stupid". And I also understand that its not really about the game or the kids, but the money, and no matter how many cowardly, pragmatists want to say, "That's just how it is", can never convince me that "that's how it should be". Call me a moralist, but I'm not ashamed of purity. There's a part of me that wants to see a playoff, that sees the ridiculousness of the current system, and then a part of me that wants people to enjoy a few good bowl games that mean everything to the kids in them. Did you see the Freshmen from 6-7 Tennessee crying after a loss in the Music City Bowl?
I am not frustrated with people that want to see a playoff, but with the line of thinking that dominates the anti-BCS mob in the media. Exhibit A: High on rhetoric, low on logic, it's ESPN columnist, Rick Reilly.
He says, "TCU's 21-19 win over arguably the hottest team in college football -- Wisconsin -- Saturday in the Rose Bowl means the Horned Frogs are undefeated and untied and unwelcome in the BCS "Doesn't Prove A Damn Thing Game" in Glendale."
Wow. Talk about overstated.
Again, "The Horned Frogs' perfect 13-0 season was rendered pointless by The Greedheads Who Run College Football."
Pointless? They won the freakin Rose Bowl! They have 9,000 kids go to their private school. This was a huge win for TCU.
And again, "They say with this system, "every game counts." Except of course, TCU's epic win over Wisconsin to stay undefeated Saturday. Counts exactly as much as a rainbow to Stevie Wonder."
I still think the Rose Bowl counts.
And yet again, "Just another day in college football -- the Chrysler K Car of sport -- the only place in the world where athletes have to shrug and say, 'Well, I guess we just have to settle for an undefeated season," as a few Horned Frogs did after the game Saturday. "Today we proved that we have just as good players as anybody else in the country,' said Horned Frogs QB Andy Dalton, who won't get the chance to prove another thing -- that they're better.
Okay, there's a difference between champion and "best team in the country". College Football fans are hampered by the unreasonable desire to see the best team. Granted, there is not as much parody in College Football as there is in the NFL, but you start getting near the top, anybody can beat anybody on any given day. The reason that the system is broken is not because it makes teams like TCU's season "pointless" but the reason the system is broken is that it thrives under the illusion that we ought to be searching for the "best team". No, we ought to be searching for a champion. TCU does deserve a shot. But you don't know if they got screwed, because you don't have a playoff system. My point is not that we shouldn't have a playoff, but if you're argument for a playoff is based on the idea that mid-majors are getting screwed, you're as blind as the BCS that believes it can gauge greatness on an irrational SOS stat.
And when I think about it in this light. I don't really want a playoff. Because the only way to do it is to make a set amount of conferences, eliminate "mid-majors", do away with the computer and the voting, and have eight major conferences, and have the winners play it off in the tournament.
Or,
Get over the whole "national championship thing" and like the kids, put all your emotional stock in your bowl game. Who knows college football might be fun again? I could go either way. But please just stop whining about how TCU is getting screwed. If they got killed by Auburn by 65, everyone would be like "oh". And how do you know they wouldn't have.