The Emperor is Butt Nekkid
Here’s a nice article from grizzled vet Jerry Green of the Detroit News.
Now, 50 years later, I deem myself as a once-naïve victim of overzealousness, but guilty nevertheless of contributing to the defrauding of the football-addicted masses.
What did I know! How could I vote Alabama over Texas when I’d never watched either of them play? Or Southern California over Florida? Or Louisville over Rutgers? Or Notre Dame over LSU? Or Michigan over Oklahoma, a vote by a shameless homer?
Or — Stanford over Appalachian State?
A half-century later, silent for so long about my guilt, I must confess. Even if I had watched each of these teams, absorbed the comments of the television experts — Lou Holtz and his ilk — how could I judge one team above another? And believe that I was accurate?
At some point the sheer force of logic combined with the crushing blow of ineptitude has to result in an ending of the BCS poll in similar fashion to the ending Jeff Goldblum’s character meets in the Fly.
Hey BCS pollsters, coaches and computers - you gave it the old college try and you should be commended for that, but it’s pretty obvious the BCS poll is no match for deciding the champion the same way every other team sport does: via a playoff.
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