I spent the day probing my rib injury and wondering whether I should attempt the Survival Workout. I tend to dig pretty deeply when probing and may have bruised myself checking for the injury. In any event, it hurt all day and I decided it would be foolish to do the workout…which almost caused me to do it. Instead, I went home and visited with my neighbor assuring him I would return after dinner to watch the BCS college football championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama. I wasn’t expecting much of a game and when I arrived 20 minutes after it had started, was not completely surprised to find Alabama already up 21-0. The pattern continued in this mismatch with the Alabama winning 42-14. Though I’m not a big college football fan, I am intrigued by the discussion over the years in the determination of the National Champion. Unlike the other major professional and college sports which determine a winner by some kind of playoff system, college football has resisted this forever. Bowl games have always been a large part of the landscape and are likely the reason the NCAA has never been able to agree on a playoff system. Instead, fans bitch about the system in place and its flaws and offer solutions that would clearly be better than what’s in place. I know there will be a four team playoff in the next couple of years, but that will only be a slightly smaller disaster. As in other college sports and even in football in the other divisions…they need a decent playoff system. It really isn’t rocket science, so why can’t they fix it? I suppose it really doesn’t matter all that much.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
BCS Football Championship...boring.
Monday, January 7,
2013
I spent the day probing my rib injury and wondering whether I should attempt the Survival Workout. I tend to dig pretty deeply when probing and may have bruised myself checking for the injury. In any event, it hurt all day and I decided it would be foolish to do the workout…which almost caused me to do it. Instead, I went home and visited with my neighbor assuring him I would return after dinner to watch the BCS college football championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama. I wasn’t expecting much of a game and when I arrived 20 minutes after it had started, was not completely surprised to find Alabama already up 21-0. The pattern continued in this mismatch with the Alabama winning 42-14. Though I’m not a big college football fan, I am intrigued by the discussion over the years in the determination of the National Champion. Unlike the other major professional and college sports which determine a winner by some kind of playoff system, college football has resisted this forever. Bowl games have always been a large part of the landscape and are likely the reason the NCAA has never been able to agree on a playoff system. Instead, fans bitch about the system in place and its flaws and offer solutions that would clearly be better than what’s in place. I know there will be a four team playoff in the next couple of years, but that will only be a slightly smaller disaster. As in other college sports and even in football in the other divisions…they need a decent playoff system. It really isn’t rocket science, so why can’t they fix it? I suppose it really doesn’t matter all that much.
I spent the day probing my rib injury and wondering whether I should attempt the Survival Workout. I tend to dig pretty deeply when probing and may have bruised myself checking for the injury. In any event, it hurt all day and I decided it would be foolish to do the workout…which almost caused me to do it. Instead, I went home and visited with my neighbor assuring him I would return after dinner to watch the BCS college football championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama. I wasn’t expecting much of a game and when I arrived 20 minutes after it had started, was not completely surprised to find Alabama already up 21-0. The pattern continued in this mismatch with the Alabama winning 42-14. Though I’m not a big college football fan, I am intrigued by the discussion over the years in the determination of the National Champion. Unlike the other major professional and college sports which determine a winner by some kind of playoff system, college football has resisted this forever. Bowl games have always been a large part of the landscape and are likely the reason the NCAA has never been able to agree on a playoff system. Instead, fans bitch about the system in place and its flaws and offer solutions that would clearly be better than what’s in place. I know there will be a four team playoff in the next couple of years, but that will only be a slightly smaller disaster. As in other college sports and even in football in the other divisions…they need a decent playoff system. It really isn’t rocket science, so why can’t they fix it? I suppose it really doesn’t matter all that much.
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