Funny
So did the BCS work this year? ESPN went so far as to say on 05 Dec (Bowl Selection day) that there was nothing to complain about this year...the "best match-up since USC-Texas". As far as the championship match-up, I agree. But if the system is so good why does it not work every year? And to say there is "nothing to complain about"? How about VaTech playing in a BCS bowl? Why do we allow the AQ teams who lost to a non-AQ team and an FBS team get the big payout? And how about un-ranked UConn? Why does an un-ranked, 8-4 team get the bid overany of the six 1-loss teams?
It's All About $Money$
This year the BCS bowls will pay out $18MM each while at the other end of the spectrum the New Orleans Bowl will pay out $500,000. Keep the rich rich and poor poor. The problem with that mindset is you will always have a Cinderella team and a "I'll show you" team (ie: TCU, Utah and Boise State). And thank heaven for those teams who have provided just enough to help push the BCS system out. Will it all change now that TCU and Utah are moving to AQ conferences? No - there will always be a non-AQ team reducing the number of BCS proponents and making the remainder find it harder and harder to stand up for the big money and inequalities.
From Dan Wetzel, 24 Nov 2010 (click here to see full article)
"In truth, the BCS isn’t about crowning a champion in college football, it was just a tool created so private bowl games could continue to operate (and profit handsomely from) college football’s postseason. By further entrenching themselves as the postseason operators, bowls continue to take hundreds of millions annually from the pockets of actual colleges. This is why no other sport would allow such a set up. What business outsources its most important and profitable product? The BCS is about protecting the profits of bowl games and nothing else. It’s about money, money and only money. It’s why the BCS employs PR people, Washington lobbyists and multiple law firms to maintain the status quo and create water muddying arguments."