College Football: Playoffs, Gimmicks, and Overratedness

I figured that I would write a blog about something that is very near and dear to my heart, being a student at LSU: college football. Every year, we sit in front of our TV's and watch our favorite colleges battle it out on the gridiron for their chance to play in what some call the Mythical National Championship. What makes this National Championship Mythical, while so many others are not? The tournament that the other levels of football and all other college sports play to determine their champion.

However, the proponents of a Division I-A or FBS tournament have some quite invalid statements when it comes to the layout of the tournament. Some say use the champions from the BCS conferences and two at-large bids, some say use the rankings. One problem with the BCS champions and the at-large bid system is, how do you pick the at-large teams? The problem with the rankings is teams like Boise State...

I personally think the current system is perfect, every game is important, and it rewards the teams who play quality opponents in a way. Who cares if Boise State is undefeated... they play Idaho and New Mexico State every season. Anyway, I digress.

One system for a tournament that I could support is something that college basketball does: have a selection committee, without the automatic bids though. Why do I think there should be no automatic bids? The tournament is smaller, and automatically adding in 6 teams cuts the needs for a committee quite a bit.

However, what if you put a team like Hawaii in as an at-large bid because they are undefeated. Yet, a team like North Carolina is 10-2 playing a much harder schedule. To me that is not fair. There is no way that a non-BCS team should ever be selected over a BCS school for a bowl or for a playoff system. There is one exception to my opinion on this and that is the MWC. I personally think they should be a BCS conference. The MWC has three ranked teams right now, and is the strongest mid-major conference. Boise State wouldn't last three weeks in the Mountain West... digressing again.

Moving on from the playoffs, now. I HATE with all the passion you can find the amount of gimmicky ass offenses being run in college football. Florida, Ole Miss, Nevada, West Virginia, Michigan... Boise State... the list goes on and on and on.

You are telling me that your quarterback sucks under center, Mr. Meyer? You are telling me that your quarterback is too bad to even run an entire formation, Mr. Nutt? You are telling me that you can't even pass out of shotgun, Mr. Rodriguez? Sure, it's fun to watch. Sure, it wins games for a while until it gets figured out. Sure if you have a wannabe virgin quarterback in the backfield who gets his dick sucked by every referee in the country you dominate teams. But to me, its not good for football.

Let's go back to the days where a team's big trick play was a WR reverse that they ran 4 times a season. Let's go back to the days of I-Form, Split Backs, the Veer, Wing T's, and traditional Shotgun. I personally love watching Georgia Tech and Navy because they pound the ball, but the media doesn't want to show them because that's not exciting. They want to show this bullshit with the RB "surprising" the defense by lining up at quarterback to do the amazing task of RUNNING THE BALL!!!!

Get rid of the bullshit, eventually it won't work any more.

Now onto my final subject.. Overrated teams...

Have you realized by now that I hate Boise State University? Do you want to know why I hate Boise State University?

I hate Boise State University for their #4 ranking, their wish to play Florida for the National Championship in 2006, and their sudden "talent" for beating Oklahoma with plays that would work once out of every 200 tries.

However, Boise State isn't my most hated football squad... Notre Dame University gets that classification. The media is so far on Notre Dame's cock that they are choking on their pubes. The refs who officiate their games aren't any better. For example, USC's Taylor Mays was flagged for "unnecessary roughness" for hitting Armando Allen as he was "going out of bounds." Allen was not going out of bounds.... Allen had planted his right foot and had turned up field. Pretty much what you are saying is Mays should not have touched the Golden Fag?

Another questionable call.. since when was it good blocking to fall down, and hold the defenders ankle so he can't get to the ball carrier? When Golden Tate did it, that's when. He attempted to chop block one of USC's corners but whiffed horribly and his make up was to grab the ankle of the player and hold on for dear life. Is that not holding? I'm pretty sure that's against the rules of football.

I also think that Notre Dame should fall under the mid-major classification... they aren't in a BCS conference they should not be counted as a BCS school... how about those pussies join a conference instead of playing Army, Navy, Air Force, Duke, Stanford, and Washington State every fucking year.