Eyeblack Odyssey argues that college football is good. In honor of that thought, I’ll be posting a series of daily blog entries that celebrate the good in the sport. I have no idea how far I’ll take this, but for now, let us all bask in the awesome.
Let us all bask in … Death to the BCS
As was pointed out to me Thursday afternoon, perhaps we all owe Dan Wetzel, co-author of the infamous Death to the BCS, a hearty thanks right now. Because the thing the majority of college football fans truly wanted is close to actually happening … an ushering in of a playoff.
My own perspective on this has, at times, been cloudy, thanks mostly to my love/nostalgia for the bowls. It took some real thought on my part and a great deal of time to resolve the playoffs vs. bowl dilema in my head, and that should be embarrassing, because my ultimate decision was this:
I want both.
The beauty of what’s going on right now is that I will, in fact, get both (if the current momentum carries through to its conclusion, of course). The bowls aren’t going anywhere. And we’re closing in on a four-team playoff. It isn’t the “death” of the BCS, exactly, and I’m glad about that fact on the basis that I love the big bowls. But I still revel in the fact that Wetzel’s book has seemingly helped sway opinion in this direction, so that we might soon have a “true” national champion.
Bowl games? Check. Critical regular season games? Check. True national champion? Check.
Sounds pretty good to me…
I love it! instead of one or two teams bellyaching that they were dissed and should have been played for the championship, we get five or six bellyaching they were dissed and left out of the playoff. Think of all the sports talk fodder that will generate!
See, now that’s looking at the bright side!