Pissed off at BCS

After spending my day studying organic chemistry (which I despise with every fiber of my being), I learn that Florida will be heading to Glendale for the National Championship to take on OSU instead of my Wolverines. And yes, this post is going to be a nice long rant because I’m pissed off.

I hate the BCS. It’s ridiculous. Michigan is the better of the two teams and we are heading to the Rose Bowl to take on USC (more on that later). I have no problem if the voters for the various polls placed Florida ahead of Michigan, but when you see these results (courtesy of Michigan Sports Center), it’s easy to understand why I’m upset with the system:

Paul Zeise:
No. 1: Ohio State
No. 2: Louisville
No. 3: Florida
No. 4: Michigan

Larry Keech:
No. 1: Ohio State
No. 2: Boise State
No. 3: Michigan
No. 4: Wisconsin
No. 5: Florida

Robert Lawless:
No. 1: Ohio State
No. 2: Michigan
No. 3: Wisconsin
No. 4: Louisville
No. 5: Florida

Ray Melick:
No. 1: Ohio State
No. 2: Florida
No. 3: Louisville
No. 4: Michigan

Tim Neverett:
No. 1: Ohio State
No. 2: Florida
No. 3: USC
No. 4: Michigan

Gene Ponti:
No. 1: Ohio State
No. 2: Florida
No. 3: LSU
No. 4: Michigan

Jim Walden:
No. 1: Florida
No. 2: Ohio State
No. 3: Michigan

A few remarks from these results:
1) I know Boise State went undefeated, but you gotta be fricking kidding me. They are not a better team than Michigan and Florida.
2) Why are people voting for Wisconsin and Louisville over Florida and/or Michigan?
3) How in the heck do you place USC over Michigan? USC lost TWICE to unranked opponents while Michigan lost by a mere 3 points to OSU in COLUMBUS!!!!!!
4) OSU is the best team in the country right now. They’re the only undefeated team who has faced quality opponents. How do you place Florida above OSU?

This system can’t and doesn’t work when idiots like those above can vote for crap like that. Yes, I want UM to go to Glendale, but if people voted (1) OSU, (2) Florida, and (3) Michigan. Fine. But when they vote for ridiculous things as seen above, it’s time to find a new format.

MGoBlog has a good post refuting all the stupid “reasons” for why Michigan doesn’t deserve to be in the championship. Like I said, if you believe Florida is the better team I have no problem - that’s an actual reason. But these aren’t:

Michigan didn’t win its conference.

Michigan had its chance.

Florida played a harder schedule.

Michigan has been idle for two weeks.

For once, I wholeheartedly agree with an ESPN columnist- shocker, I know.

There is no polite way of saying it: Michigan got jobbed. Sunday’s rankings are Exhibits A-Z why the BCS means well, but simply doesn’t work — and never will.

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How can you call this a “system” when Florida belongs to a league that plays a conference championship, and Michigan doesn’t? How can you call it a quasi-playoff when Michigan drops twice in the standings without losing a game.

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Michigan never had that chance. It was 11-1 on Nov. 18. It was 11-1 on Dec. 3. But between then and now the Wolverines apparently became the cellulite queens and somehow lost the swimsuit portion of this ridiculous BCS beauty pageant.

Michigan didn’t do a thing wrong. And yet Carr was the one who had to console his team Sunday night. He did it, but here’s guessing he wasn’t Mr. Congeniality.

And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I hope OSU destroys the crap outta Florida.

And finally, I don’t really understand how USC gets to play in the Rose Bowl. I mean, I know they won their conference but they lost twice to an unranked opponent. In my humble opinion, they don’t deserve the Rose Bowl. I would much rather see LSU there who had a great season. But that’s just me…

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3 Responses to “Pissed off at BCS”

  1. doomsberry Says:
    December 4th, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    Christy,
    You need to tell us how you really feel about this issue!!
    I think many people agree that Michigan got robbed in this deal. The BCS has doomed college bowl games to such an extent that Michigan fans are actually disappointed that the Woverines are going to the Rose Bowl and playing USC! I never thought that I would live long enough to see that type of reaction to a Rose Bowl bid, but the BCS has made it possible. Anyway, I think the whole thing is some type of trick by the Buckeyes to make Michigan fans root for them against Florida.

  2. Hoser Says:
    December 4th, 2006 at 10:11 pm

    I think The Rose gets the PAC-10 and BIG-10 champs (per tradition) in its non-BCS championship game years, or 1st choice of replacements if either/both PAC-10 & BIG-10 champs are in the BCS championship game. The Rose got USC by default because they are the PAC-10 champ and didn’t make the BCS championship. They chose Michigan for obvious reasons (#2 team - SEC can kiss my katookis).
    I too would much prefer to see OSU (yak!) wipe the field with Representative Meyer from the SEC district, UM stomp LSU and Wisconsin beat Arkansas. USC not only didn’t help us get in to the championship game, they kept us from taking out our frustration on the whiney, insecure SEC…
    Yep, I’m more than a little pissed.

  3. Christy Hammond Says:
    December 5th, 2006 at 1:32 pm

    Doomsberry & Hoser- thanks for the comments. Made me feel like I wasn’t alone in my BCS sorrows (my friends like UM football, but they don’t get into it like I do). Anyways, hopefully Hart and Henne will stay for next season and we’ll dominate and be in the national championship game then. Go Blue, beat USC!

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