Griping About The BCS – One Of My Favorite Holiday Traditions
It’s that holiday time of year again. I can tell, because I have to park my Z for the next few months because of the dumb old snow. I’m being pressured to spend money on things my family does not need, and even worse, to allow people in my family to spend money on things for me that I don’t need. And the powers-that-be of college football have yet again managed to screw up an otherwise excellent season.
I don’t really mind much, anymore. I mean, I wish they would come up with a championship that would actually make sense, I really do. But, as I’ve already explained why a playoff won’t work, I’ve given up all hope of them ever fixing it. I figure they have also, because they keep on coming back with those same old arguments that try in vain to justify their position.
Just accept it. Accept it, and be grateful for something to complain about to all your friends. That’s what I’ve done. I’ve made complaining about the BCS a part of my annual holiday traditions.
In fact, this is a very great idea. Normally I would grumble and complain about the holiday season because it is so freakin’ expensive for no good reason. This usually gets me in trouble with my wife, who says I need to not be such a humbug. But now, I realize I can always blame it on the BCS. I can confidently rely upon them to screw up every single winter, and now I can blame my grumpiness on them:
My Wife: ”Will you help me put up the Christmas lights?”
Me: ”I hate the dumb Christmas lights. How about let’s just let the neighbors put up their Christmas lights, and we’ll just look at theirs. They’ll appreciate it because if we don’t put ours up, people will notice theirs more.”
My Wife: ”Why are you such a humbug? You make Christmas miserable for the whole family.”
See, before, I would be in trouble at this point. BUT NOW, I can say:
Me: ”Sorry, honey. It’s the BCS. Of course, they ruined the college football post-season again, and it is really bringing me down.”
My Wife: ”Oh, right. Of course. I can see why you are so upset. Here, why don’t you let me make you some chocolate chip cookies?”
See how much better that works?
Of course, the main thing to gripe about this year is not just that neither TCU nor Boise State got a chance to play for the national championship game, despite both teams going undefeated all season. The main thing to gripe about is that the BCS pitted TCU against Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl, appeasing both teams in principle by giving both a BCS birth, but violating the spirit of it all by having them play each other. We’ll never know how good TCU or Boise State is this year. All year we hope one of these mid-major teams will make it to a BCS game just to see how they fare against the big boys. I guess the BCS schools have had enough of getting their hats handed to them by the mid-majors, so they thought they’d make everyone happy this way.
Well it didn’t work. Thanks BCS, for saving me again.
Cincinnati has a gripe too, although considering that they just barely beat Pitt last week I’m not sure they are all that good either. But if they beat Florida, you know Cincinnati will claim co-championship honors, the same way Auburn did a few years ago when they went undefeated but didn’t get to play for the national title.
Oh well. It’s not all bad. How so? Well, USC is playing in the Emerald Bowl, for one thing. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
