this time last year

Its always about this time of year that I get really worked up about college football and all the injustices inherent in the BCS system. This year is of course no different. Can you imagine if teams one through four played teams five through eight? I am not sure any of the top four would even be favored at a neutral field, let alone win a game. Its a mess, to be sure, and is only going to get messier today when Missouri beats Kansas and leaves Hawaii as the only undefeated team left in D-I. The BCS will demonstrate that it learned nothing from last years Boise State beating of OU, and the Warriors will get dropped to a lame bowl somewhere around new years. All I know is that I would not want to have to play Hawaii, and you could give me two months to prepare for them.


This however is not the lone sham in college football, because there is always the Heisman "race." I have my own special criteria for the Heisman, and it is simply the player you are most afraid to play. This accounts for why defensive players so rarely win the award. I want the Heisman to go to the guy who keeps coaches awake the week before a game trying figure out how to stop him, and keeps his own coaches awake trying to figure out ways to get the ball in his hands more. That is why for me the Heisman is only a two man race, Tebow and McFadden. I raved about McFadden all last year, to no avail, but there is no question he is the player who would make me the most nervous to play against. Tebow I would also rank very closely behind McFadden, and if there is anyone else even in the discussion the award is a joke.