Florida’s Sugar Bowl blowout of Cincinnati (the game wasn’t even as close as its 51-25 final score, given the 37-3 third quarter lead) is a rebuke to efforts to regulate the BCS, though admittedly the US would be better off if Congress dropped its current agenda and spent 2010 in hearings and debates over the optimal means of determining the college football champion.
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I also think they (meaning our overlords, Congress) should spend their time also regulating the NBA, NHL, MLB, and the NFL. All of which could use a better method of determining the champ. Since few of them have shown any real understanding of economics (or maybe they have depending on your view of the situation), sports seems to be the last frontier.
Why is this a rebuke?
Cincy was the Big East Champion and an automatic qualifier. Had Texas stumbled against Texas, it would have been Cincy playing Bama for the title. If anything, the blowout shows how broken the system is.
Note: I’m not for congress getting involved. I just don’t see how this game helps the BCS make its case.
Doug, the leagues cited are all professional, the NCAA is only semi-pro. Each is comprised of only a few teams, while Division 1 has 120. As witnessed last night at the Superdome, sometimes there is little parity between the conferences.
On a side note: To all the lawsuit mongers in Florida who were worried about watching the game on cable, they should have gotten off their sorry asses and just come to New Orleans. There were thousands of empty seats, mostly those reserved for Florida fans. Had they done so they would have been treated to an exhibition of near flawless quarterbacking.
But to the question, name the one thing that Congress has tackled and not screwed up and I’ll still give you a “Hell NO!” in response. The BCS is far from perfect, but it is a better system of choosing participants for bowl games than some whiney senator whose state school didn’t make the cut.
I long for the days when our government could make sure to waste ample amounts of time with trivialities like regulating baseball and steroids in sports.
I just want dibs on being the College Football Czar.
After the Sugar Bowl and the Alamo Bowl, what I would love to see is a rule to forbid any college to contact, interview, or even think about another team’s coach until after the last bowl game is played.