The BCS sucks.

I've been talked into doing this by some friends, so here goes. If the worst thing that can happen is nobody cares, well then I'm no worse off than I am now.



The BCS should be renamed, "Bullshit Championship Series".



There, I said it. Twice this year, I have had had the unpleasant experience of having to, "talk" college football with two , Clowns from BCS schools, who think the sun sets on them because they have more TV sets in their states than we do in Utah. I'm really getting tired of these guys.



The first one was an extremely unpleasant little, "Frat Boy" from the University of Oklahoma , sitting next to me at a Jimmy Buffett concert in Las Vegas last May. He didn't even know what conference the University Of Utah played in. I'm sure he knows now that, BYU (Stands for: But You're Uneducated in my book, but I'm still glad they beat, OU) ruined their season, and their quarterback, in the very first game of THIS season!



After spending a little time with this guy, I now know why, Texas fans sport t-shirts that say, "You can't spell, Cocksucker without, OU!".



The second was a Friend of a neighbor. My buddy brought this guy over for a drink and to watch a football game one night a few weeks ago. He went on and on about the PAC 10. More like PAC 2, Sack 8. Oregon and USC are all that's left after they beat the crap out of each other every year. And they STILL can't beat Boise State!



Both of these guys are riding the short school bus when it comes to college football. And both of them used the same tired argument, "How many National Championships do YOU have?".



Well, our Women's Gymnastics team, and our ski teams have 10 each. Because we actually get to PLAY for those! We don't have to be voted into the title game, and see if we impressed enough Eastern Time Zone writers to be VOTED #1.



It would have been as relevant for me to ask them, "How many, Great Salt Lake's do YOU have in YOUR state!" You can't join that club, Pal. And the BCS won't let us in. They control every outcome.



You don't think so? Ask a University of Indiana Fan if they scored on that reviewed touchdown against Iowa on Saturday, or if they think, The Big 10 (where they can't even COUNT, they have 11 schools) play review official was TOLD that Iowa was going to win that game so the Conference has a shot at an undefeated team and a National Title game See what they have to say. I'm with the, Hoosier's on this one. They score there, they win, Iowa is no longer a contender, and the Big 10 (Elegant 11? Enormous 11? I'll work on it) in no longer a player this year.



You want to fix college football in this country? Here's the, Truthstick plan. Number 1. The NCAA MUST take control of it's own game back from Disney, ESPN, Fox Sports, ABC, and television in general. Change TV to accommodate the games, don't change the rules to accommodate the TV schedule!



2. You have 11 Division One conferences, so you need a 16 team playoff. Win your conference and you're in. You have room for five, "at large" teams. Pick the next five good ones. The guy who lost the SEC title game should probably get a shot (but the SEC went 0-2 against the Mountain West Conference last season when Wyoming beat Tennessee at home and Utah kicked Alabama to the curb in their own back yard in the, Sugar Bowl. So maybe it should be the Big 12 loser. Roll Tide? I don't think so).



3. You don't have to lose the Bowl Games. You just move them up. The Las Vegas Bowl becomes a first round play off game the second week in December. Same with the other lower tier Bowl Games. 16-8-4-2 teams, with the National Championship game always being the Rose Bowl on New Years Day. And the rest of the Bowl Games? They don't have to go away. There are 34 of them now, just because you didn't win your conference, doesn't mean you shouldn't get to go to a Bowl Game. I don't think we're going to be worse off as a culture if we have to move the Gaylord Hotel's Music City Bowl to a different day.



4. The NCAA must control all the officials. Again, witness the theft of a game in Iowa City last Saturday by an officiating crew who works for a conference that had a vested interest in seeing, Iowa go undefeated. And anyone who's ever seen their team play IN a PAC 10 stadium has witnessed this first hand. A few years ago, Utah beat North Carolina in Salt Lake City by 40 points. Same two teams next year in NC? Thirty flags on the Utes, and we lose. If you're a college football official, you should NEVER work a game in a conference you have any contact with.



There, in a nutshell, is how we save college football in this country.