BCS Mess

Clemson is on bye this week so we're safe from a loss at least until Thursday against Wake Forest. Let's take this opportunity to discuss the current college football landscape.

Now six weeks into the season, it appears we're headed for another BCS mess. There have been a multitude of upsets, especially last week when powerhouses such as USC, Florida, and Georgia all went down. Currently, only one team (Oklahoma) remains in the top 5 in the polls from preseason. The BCS Championship Game is likely to come down to the survivors of the SEC and Big 12 conferences. These two conferences seem to be head and shoulders above the rest, with the Big 10 and Pac 10 as the second tier and the ACC and Big East looking like junior varsity squads in many games. The Big 12 winner will likely come from a group consisting of Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri. One of those teams may be eliminated this week as OU and UT face off in the Red River Shootout in Dallas. The SEC seems to produce a "Gameday worthy" matchup every week. Still to come are Georga/Florida, LSU/Florida, Alabama/LSU, and a host of other tough conference games.

More than likely, no team from a BCS conference will finish unbeaten. The participants in the championship game, as with last year, will likely be determined by a series of computers that will deliver a controversial result. For all the complaints about the BCS, it is important to mention that it is still light years better than the old system that simply sent each conference winner to a predetermined bowl. At least now we get our No. 1 versus No. 2 game, even if those teams may not exactly deserve it.