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There are year end championships in tennis and golf and they are determined by rankings of previous years and this year.
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But everyone still has a chance to decide their fate...on the playing surface, rankings be damned. Thats the difference.
I completely understand the whole ranking system, and at one time it really was the only way to even come close to determining who was best in any given year. Things have changed.....massively.
When they started the bowl system it was because travel was a hinderance in having certain teams play each other. Trains and busses were all they had. That is no longer the case. Now any team can be anywhere in the country they need to be on a couple days notice. With the amount of $$ that football generates for the universities, it is a complete sham that those athletes and all fans of the game are still limited to what a computer/coaches poll determines will be the best match up at seasons end. There is NO reason not to allow the top teams face each other. None. Except greed. No one should be OK with that. Ever. Many of the schools we are talking about being both included and excluded exist because of public/state funding.
this is no longer "amateur athletics" as the NCAA deems it to be. Its business, and a big one at that. As such there should exist no monopolies on whom can and cannot participate, and if this ever does make its way into Congress under anti-trust violations, the BCS will probably become a long lost bad memory. I just think the NCAA should be proactive instead of reactive in this case and do the right thing. However, they wont. The fatcats that run the power conferences are far to afraid of losing money instead of thinking outside the box and actually expanding the revenues through a real world playoff system.
I want to see Boise St play Oregon with the winner facing the OSU/Utah winner who then get to face who comes out of a TCU/Nebraska/So Car/Auburn quartet. Who wouldnt? It would be a boon for college football and it would allow these guys who all train and play as hard as the guys on the other team, some hope to showcase themselves at seasons end. Instead I have jack fatsprat voting along with Houston Nutt telling me what they "think" the NC game should be. the whole thing is absurd at its very core.
If the whole bowl system really isnt about the NC game(as the trads often use in rebuttal) and all about the bowl tradition, then do away with the whole NC alltogether, never name a national champion again, and go on with collecting all the money while never truly knowing who was the best. i mean what does it matter if they get it right or wrong at that point?
That is what the traditionalists are asking those of us who see the whole thing for the farce it is. I refuse to accept it, and so should all college football fans and athletes.