Bowls question

Actually, the BCS title game contestants get invited, too.

No matter how "clear cut" it seems to be this year, it's still a subjective decision made by computers, polls and people.

Alabama and Texas didn't "earn" their way in anymore than TCU and Cincinnati and Boise State did not. There was no series of games played to get here. It was a decision based on assumptions: that the SEC and Big 12 champions had to have the best teams in the country.

And aside from that, for my money, it's a bowl game.

 

It's a bowl game.

Is there another team sport that doesn't have a tournament to determine who participates in the championship game?

 

If it looks like a bowl game, smells like a bowl game, gets played like a bowl game, gets covered like a bowl game....

IT'S A BOWL GAME!!!

 

This.

 

Teams "earn" their way to the other games too. The Big Ten champ earns a Rose Bowl berth, etc.

 

Doesn't matter what we think. Check the media guide for any team that has played in the
BCS championship since it began in 1998. They have the box score in their bowl sections, count the game as a victory in a bowl for their coach and program and count the stats in their bowl records and other records.