A Wild And Crazy Season

Week 5

This season of college football has got to have been the strangest in recent memory. The season was strange early with teams like Rutgers coming out of nowhere and going undefeated early in the season. But was just 4 weeks ago that the strangeness of this season started to really take shape.

For three straight weeks the number 3 ranked team in the nation lost to lower ranked or unranked teams. There were other big upsets as well with teams like Tennessee losing at home in a wild game with LSU. Oklahoma getting hosed by the officials in a "loss" at Oregon.

So we come to this weekend. Ohio State and Michigan play another great game that proves that those two teams are at the top of the nation. Then you have the strange game again. How can one conference have this many weird games in one season. First Louisville upsets West Virginia. Then Rutgers upsets Louisville. And now Cincinnati upsets #5 Rutgers. That leaves 3 teams tied at the top of the Big East Conference.

So now with a boat load of one loss teams and only two undefeated teams left in the nation, what is going to happen. We now fall into that wonderful time when all the coaches and sportswriters try to decide who the best two teams in the country are. What ever happened to playing the game on the field and not leaving it up to coaches voting for their favorites or voting to influence where their team will fall in the shuffle. And don't think that there aren't a few payoffs and favortism being played out among the sportswriters to get their teams into the national championship game. AD's and SID's are working overtime to get their teams into the best possible game.

Once again, the BCS will leave us all wondering, WHAT IF? Should it be Ohio State - Michigan, Should it be Ohio State - USC, Should it be Ohio State - Notre Dame? What about undefeated Boise State? Everyone will have their opinions, everyone will have their complaints about who goes where. The final result is once again we have a paper champion in the biggest sport in all of college sports. D1 Football!

When oh when will someone have the balls to get a real playoff system in place in D1 football that will give us a true national champion. If it were not for the playoff system in college baseball, Oregon State would never have won the national championship. They came into the college world series ranked 8th.

Lets all go to our teams bowl games and be happy for our chances for a holiday vacation in some warm distant destination, to watch our teams play against an opponent that we don't see everyday. But until we have a playoff system, we will never have a true national champion in D1 college football.