Running bowl thread

Move over, Tennessee.

Undefeated Tulane has been belatedly awarded co-champions for 1998.

Boise State's like the girl who stuffs a pack of Kneenex in her bra. She's perfectly happy enjoying all the attention (and money) without risking being exposed as a fraud.

 

I agree. But right now the system is what it is. And putting Alabama and Boise on equal footing is pretty unfair to Alabama.

 

They get to be the co-champions that everyone believes was the best team and had the most impressive season.

 

Or Boise State could schedule some better opponents and play their way into that title game.

 

The system sucks but it is what it is.

Let's do this excercise - who are the best five teams in order now that the season is over....

I'd say
1. Alabama
2. Texas
3. Florida
4. Boise
5. Ohio State

 

That would have just left us with Alabama and either Texas or TCU as undefeateds and imaginary co-champions.

 

How is this even remotely argued?

 

I'd swap Texas and Florida.

But "champion" doesn't mean "best team." If it does, I think the 2006 Cardinals have some rings to give back.

 

I don't know - watching Florida play Alabama and then watching Texas playing Alabama, I think Texas is better.

 

Nothing is as it seems. This is awesome.

 

Boise fourth-best? That's rich.

Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Texas, Virginia Tech... at the very least, would have easily handled those pretenders, who were life and death with another pretender in the Fiesta.

 

By your logic, there's no incentive at all to play a tough schedule. I could play 3 1-AA schools and a bunch of patsies and go undefeated, play one bowl game and if I win, call myself "champion."
As a fan of college football, I find that pretty shitty. I want to watch the best teams play each other, all the time. I think the sport is better for it. And I'm going to reward the teams, like Alabama, that make that happen and succeed.