The BCS

Follow this logic:

Boise State beats a top 10 team in VA Tech in Maryland, basically a home game for VA Tech. VA Tech then loses to a lower division team in James Madison at home. James Madison finished the year at 6-5 by the way. Later Boise is handed its only loss to a top 25 team in Nevada. So the powers at be say that Boise lost to the only good team they played because VA Tech lost to little James Madison and therefore VA Tech can't be that good. 

So Boise DOES NOT play in a BCS game because VA Tech lost to James Madison. But VA Tech DOES play in a BCS game despite losing to James Madison.
Make sense?


By the way Boise blew out their opponent in the Vegas bowl by 23 points and VA Tech was blown out by 28 in theirs.
Shocking!!




Here is another one. 


The University of Connecticut plays in the Fiesta Bowl this year. With an 8-4 record, here are the teams they lost to: 
Michigan, finished the season unranked with a 7-5 record in the Big 10. 0-5 against ranked opponents.
Rutgers, finished the season unranked with a 4-8 record. The only Big East victory for Rutgers came against UConn.
Louisville, finished the season unranked with a 6-6 record. Beat UConn 26-0
Temple, finished the season unranked with an 8-4 record. Finished 5th in the MAC conference. 


But somehow, as an unranked team with terrible losses and no victories against ranked opponents, this UConn team earned the right to play in a prestigious BCS game with a 17 million dollar payout. If you couldn't guess UConn lost the game by 28 points.


I thought that the BCS system was designed to avoid these blowouts? I thought it was designed to match the best teams in the country against each other? I can think of at least 25 teams that would beat UConn any day of the week. 


This system is an absolute mess with no rhyme or reason to it. College football is the only competitive sport on the planet that does not decide it's national champion on the field. It's a disgrace in every sense of the word.