More BS than C

Tonight's Bowl Championship Series reinforced the view that the current BCS championship is mostly BS. No sane person could argue that either of the teams that played the game tonight were among the two best teams in college football. This was a remarkably uneven season with lots of surprises. For my money a better game might have been between Georgia and USC but in reality perhaps the best alternative to the current system, which relies on a series of very flawed assumptions, would be to great a Sweet Sixteen Tournament which takes the best sixteen and then has a single elimination tournament.

I am not sure I agree with the idea of a national championship in football - the nature of the differences in conferences and the variability of week to week performance and the history of at least several of the bowls made the championship mostly silly.

LSU will claim that they are the first team to win 2 championships - although their first was a split win with USC winning half of the title. LSU went on in 2004 to lose two games go on to the Capitol One Bowl and lose to Iowa. USC went on, in what was called the "leave no doubt" season to win 13-0 and destroy Oklahoma in the next national championship.

For the latest data available the two championship schools had a 49% and 55% graduation rate (that is a six year rate). When you consider that very few of the athletes tonight actually play professional sports such a shoddy rate is pretty horrible. College sports should first be about college not about sports.

One other note - Rivals.com did the first look at posting for the coming year. USC and Georgia are ranked #1 and #2, with Ohio State at #3 (depending on which of their players go in the draft) - LSU is ranked #8.