JoBu's First Annual Defense of the BCS

I'm no more tired of answering for college football's postseason than college basketball fans are tired of trying to change it.
By Jordan Burchette
Maxim.com

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First-Annual Defense of the BCS
Third-Annual Defense of the BCS
Fifth-Annual Defense of the BCS
Sixth-Annual Defense of the BCS

BULBOUS LETTER OF THE WEEK!

FIRST-ANNUAL DEFENSE OF THE BCS
Do you like the system that college football uses in picking the championship game based on two polls, or do you think they should switch to a format more like college basketball, with March Madness and a big tournament?


- Mike

The absolute worst thing that could possibly happen to college football (short of the NCAA Gestapo exerting even more control) would be a basketball-style tournament. Think about this: How many regular season college basketball games do you watch each year, as opposed to college football?

If you're anything like me (and if you have a penchant for baby corn and sequin gowns, you are), Saturdays are off-limits from September through early December, as you withdraw from God, family and country to watch 14 straight hours of college football, with the occasional commercial break to the Spice channel.

With college basketball, there's none of this. Know why? Nobody fucking cares. There are 30 games in a season, and all you gotta do to play for the big sack o' nuts is win half of 'em, rendering the average college basketball game meaningless. Look what happens when you lose one football game: Oregon's outside the championship snow globe with its face pressed up against the glass. It's winner take all, and that's how we likes it.

The forces advocating a bracketed playoff in college football (read: Tequiza-swilling, executive bathroom key-hoisting college basketball fans) seek to destroy all of this for the sake of big payouts at the expense of the regular season. Thus far, the BCS has worked, awarding championships to the nation's most deserving teams: Tennessee in '98 & Florida State in '99. Would you really have wanted to see Southern Miss play for the Sears Trophy last year? Case made.


See also:


Third-Annual Defense of the BCS
Fifth-Annual Defense of the BCS
Sixth-Annual Defense of the BCS
Seventh-Annual Defense of the BCS