2012 BCS National Championship*

I demand that this year’s National Championship be asterisked just like Barry Bonds’ home run records. No matter if Bonds used performance enhancers or not, he did break the record, and no matter how much I dislike Alabama winning this year’s championship game, they are the champs. BUT, I believe it should be duly noted that they won it because of the BCS and segregationist elitism that drives the power hungry traditional programs.

The thing that still grinds my gears about the “match-up of the century: part 2” is how can a team who failed to win their own conference have the chance to be national champions. By allowing a team to play in the NCG who isn’t a conference champion, you’re saying that conference affiliation is irrelevant, or perhaps that the only conference to matter is the SEC. I’m sorry, but if you take away BAMA, LSU, and Arkansas the conference is mediocre. You’re top heavy, that doesn’t mean your conference is the best. Now if conference membership doesn’t matter, then why should A&M and Missouri be in such a rush to leave? Why are Pittsburgh and Syracuse jumping to the ACC, and West Virginia and TCU joining the BIG 12? Because conferences do matter. Conferences determine a champion from a dedicated group of schools. If you take time to research the idea of conferences and divisions, you will discover a radical realization. Every major sport has something that behaves like a conference where a champion emerges and contends with other champions to see who is best. We have conferences so we weed out the lesser deserving teams to play for the championship. Alabama, you didn’t win the SEC, therefore you can’t be the best.

Also, by having this rematch, the grand idea that every regular season game matters goes down the tubes.  Alabama finished 11-1 (not including the NCG). So if we take away that game against LSU where they lost, they would be 11-0. 11-0! No doubt the computers and pollsters would have them 1 or 2 in the polls. The team had an outstanding season. I won’t argue with that. I would even say they probably had the best team in the country, but nevertheless, they didn’t deserve to be playing for the crystal ball. Bama lost the LSU game. The result: NCG. If they would have won, the result would be the NCG. If the game never happened, the result would be the same. So the value of the LSU/Bama part 1 was worthless. The system deemed the game worthless which devalues the regular season.

Thank you BCS! In one single action you made the conferences and the regular season meaningless. You might as well go ahead and play next year’s national championship game now. We all know it’s going to be two SEC West teams. It will probably be LSU vs. Alabama or LSU vs. Arkansas. Yo, Boise St., you should just dismantle your football team and save the school money cause your football games now mean nothing. I love game days in Morgantown, but what’s the point of tailgating and cheering on my Mountaineers when the result of the game is irrelevant.

So BCS, you can take your elitist agendas and go shove it!