The Yearly Stagecoach Robbery that is the BCS

I'm not a big college football fan.  Maybe it's because my high school didn't have a football team of our own (we shared a program with a neighboring town who kept the rights to not hyphenating), maybe it's because I went to college at school that didn't have a football team (BU tragically cut their squad in 1997, but has led to some great t-shirts), maybe it's because I work at a college now that got rid of their football team earlier this decade.  I don't know what it is.  I love pro ball, and I do understand the game.  When I do watch college football, I root for underdogs or teams I just feel I should root for.  For the diehards out there, I'm a passive college football loser.

But let me make clear - this in no way makes me unknowledgeable about the politics of the sport.  On the contrary: I wrote a persuasive essay in 10th grade about why college football should change to a playoff format and how it could be done.  I got an A on that paper.  And Mrs. Farmer was a college football fan so I couldn't just make it up, I had to know my stuff.  That was a good paper, damnit!

Leading me to this: the BCS sucks.  You know how I know?  Because they make two undefeated, small conference teams play each other in a meaningless BCS bowl game (Fiesta) rather than play against the two other large conference teams who are vying for the DI National Championship.

In no other sport in no other division in the NCAA is this allowed happen.  Every year, the BCS committee is allowed to anoint two teams to play for the collegiate national football championship.  Every year, teams like TCU and Boise State get snubbed in favor of corporate college football programs.  And every year, people are pissed.

Hell, the BCS even hired a spokesman this year to try and do positive PR for it (which was an EPIC fail, considering they chose former Bush spokesman Ari Fleisher to be their mouthpiece).  But no one with a sense of fair play (or empty football trophy cases, for that matter) finds this ridiculous, unsportsman-like system acceptable.  Remember, the BCS without a "Championship" is just a whole lot of B.S.

I'm with Yglesias - it's time for Obama to get involved.  Where's "Big Government" when we need it?!

And go Tide.

UPDATE: This video was sent to me, and I think it relates to the topic at hand.  Via Newsy: