without fail, I get upset.
The NFL playoffs are kicking off in about 3 days, and we will all know shorty who the best football team on the planet is. It's a crazy thing, isn't it? You find the best 12 teams, and they play each other until one is hoisting the Lombardi Trophy and telling us about their trip to Disney World.
It isn't a crazy idea. It works. Not just in the NFL, but in every professional league. And not just in college sports, but in Division II and III football as well.
For college football fans like myself, the Bowl season is a bittersweet, anti-climactic ending to another awesome season. We know who the best teams are at this point. Why not put the best 8 schools on a field and let them battle it out? We've seen that Boise St. can beat Oklahoma, and that TCU can punch a great Wisconsin team in the mouth.
But when you're stuck comparing schedules and conferences, there's no way you can put an undefeated TCU team over Oregon or Auburn this year. This is obvious, and it leaves me oftentimes defending the big boys, and I don't like that.
The BCS was lucky this year, Oregon and Auburn are clearly the two best teams this season and they'll play for it all next Monday night in Glendale. But something tells me BCS officials don't care if they're lucky. They love the controversy their system causes every December when diehard college football fans are watching the NFL playoffs and wondering, what if?
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