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A dishonorable flag flies over BC$ nation: every January, I smell something rotten in the bowls.(Bowl Championship Series Nation)
Every time I mention that there should be a big-time college football playoff, belly-painted yahoos fire off e-mails beginning "Your an idiot!"
The deep thinkers want me to believe there already is a playoff, only it's the regular season. They point out that when the student (haha) athletes get done with their 11 or 12 regular season games, it's plain which team is the national champion.
To that, I usually say the same thing I say now, which is, "Oh, really?"
In this extraordinary year, five teams finished the regular season undefeated. But only two could play in a game that decided The National Champion.
Stop. Before we go another paragraph, we need to say, "National champion? Of what nation?"
Clearly it is not the national champion of the United States of America.
That's because America's college athletic champions are determined by tournaments open to all competitors in their category. It's done that way in every varsity sport in every division with the exception of big-time college football. It has no tournament.