Just got through reading a blog on the Dallas Morning News Web site. There, a staffer pretty much said voters in college football wouldn't agree with University of Texas quarterback Colt McCoy's assertion that no team in the country could beat the Longhorns right now.
UT lost one game this season, to Texas Tech. Tech ended up with two losses.
Oklahoma, which is playing one-loss Florida in the BCS college championship game Thursday, only lost one game, too — to the University of Texas. Hmm.
I'm not going to rehash the same old argument about who beat who and who's cheating who and who don't even care anymore. But I am saying this: college football is super entertaining, but for the players, it's something akin to gambling.
Division I (or whatever they're calling it these days) college football is the only league that I've ever heard of where you can win all your games and not be crowned a champion. Utah finished 13-0 this year, probably won't finish ranked higher than third or fourth, below teams that will all have one loss.
This isn't a rant insisting Texas should be in the title game, because, as I said before, how do you pick who the best 12-1 or 11-1 team is?
As Jim Mora once infamously said (and now says in perpetuity on beer commercials): PLAYOFFS!
Please, for the love of Pete, institute a playoff system in college football before I die! That way, 13-0 Utah gets a shot at UT in a national semifinal. USC gets a shot at Florida or Oklahoma in another. Then, the two best teams in the tournament play for it all.
It's still shocking to me major college football doesn't do it this way. It's the one place where, when coaches tell their players to leave it all out on the field, their efforts may not necessarily matter.
—— Jayson Larson, editor
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