college football

college football championship weekend is exciting, but also a let down... half of us are happy and half of us are sad, but still there are no definitive champions because there are too few games in which a true champion to prove themselves... the ridiculousness of looking primarily and wins and loses in a 12 game season is lost on most people, especially when most of the top teams carefully create their very short schedule to offer them the best chance to win and not to offer them or anyone else the best chance to prove they are the best team...

personally, i'd like to see a sixteen team playoff after the twelve games most teams play... and that should not happen until the teams with the top ranked defenses play the teams with the top ranked offenses in a round robin tournament to determine the rankings in the sixteen game tournament... too many games?... then limit the "regular season" to ten games or eight games because the meaningless games scheduled against teams that end 50-0 or something like that, a fallacy in the system almost every team uses to increase their wins... meaningless wins should not count...

yup, so this year, as in every year, the popularity contest and cheating (i call it cheating, even if the rules don't say so) and bias chooses the championship contenders and losing late in the year overrules a loss earlier in the year even if one loss is to a great team and the other loss is to a mediocre or simply good team... the way college footbal is set up allows for a handful of teams to be bullies and some teams to pretend they are better than they are and the majority of teams to just get pushed around... what is worse is how people love to kick someone when they are down and ridicule others and college football provides an almost endless opportunity to do both...

and though there are all these and more flaws and the worst of all part is how people seem to love the brutality of the sport, it's still fun to watch the finesse plays though... for some, the point of the game is to see the big hits, the injuries, just as for some the point of auto racing is to see the crashes... for me, the point of the game is precision passing, spectacular catches, and elusive running... for me, the point is to score points, not hurt people...

i know, i'm sacrilegious... throw a flag if you must...

narf :)