Mikey D

I'm going to play the repeater for the second year in a row. Last year I talked about what a travesty it was that LSU jumped 3 teams in the BCS poll and into the National Championship despite the three teams in front of them not losing. What irked me was that the polls (AP and Coach's) were essentially rendered meaningless in the end. Because the polls play such a large part in the formula of the BCS, the only way that people could have gotten LSU into the title game was if they moved LSU up to #2 in the ranking, which they did, thus pushing them in front of three teams that did nothing to hurt their stock. The integrity of the poll system, the little that it had (biased coaches and the such), was gone. College football used the poll system all season long as a gauge for measuring the "best team", but abandoned their system and rankings at the very end. What's the point of even having rankings? If none, why are they such a large part of the BCS system?

So all morning I hear about this Texas-Oklahoma bullshit. "Well Texas beat Oklahoma head-to-head." "Well Oklahoma destroyed Texas Tech and has scored 60+ the last two weeks over ranked opponents." Irrelevant, I say! Save your arguments and reasoning, because I don't give two shits and a fuck. The only thing that should matter is the polls. Texas was #2, Oklahoma #3. Texas won convincingly over their in-state rival, and Oklahoma did as well. Both teams won. Texas is still #2. Oklahoma is still #3. No more discussion. Respect the polls. You had Oklahoma at #3 a week ago, keep them there dammit! You should not jump a team in the polls that did nothing to hurt its ranking (and did everything to help it) if the polls have any integrity and true meaning.

But they don't. And I hate it.

~Mikey D