Quick – pick the one popular sport whose champion is decided by a bunch of nerds behind a computer desk.
No, it’s not online poker, and it’s not even Madden ’08, where you keep on losing to that 12 year old kid from Boise on Xbox live (damn you, idahorox95!).
No, I’m talking about college football. A place where a little bit of whining will get you into the national title or a BCS bowl, and where you can play schedule filled with Troy and Bobby Boucher's SCLSU Mud Dogs and still make the national title game.
Whatever happened to the best teams playing the best teams to determine a champion? It happens in every other sport, even in college. Now I’ll ask another question – what is the most exciting annual sporting event? March madness.
Imagine if you combined a more popular sport with some type of playoff system or tournament. I understand football is a different type of game, and they can only play one game a week, but tell me what the fuck these kids are doing for those first three weeks of December besides Christmas shopping and throwing snowballs at little kids during fits of roid rage? You have 8 teams in the playoffs – the winner of each major conference and 2 at-large bids – play the second and third weeks of December, and play your championship game the first week of January. 7 playoff games means more money, more excitement, and a real champion! Tradition blows. It’s time for a change. Much to Mr. Talented’s dismay, I won’t give a top 25 poll, but I’ll let you all know who my 8 playoff teams are.
SEC champion – LSU
Big XII champion – Oklahoma
Big 10 champion – Michigan
ACC champion – Miami
Big East champion – West Virginia
Pac 10 champion – Oregon
At-large 1 – Hawaii
At-large 2 – Ohio State
