Friday’s Waukesha Freeman electronic edition had two opinions on the Bowl Championship fiasco.
Scott Fowler’s piece starts,
College football has just ended one of its most bizarre, entertaining and outlandish regular seasons in history. Now, that regular season will be followed by the equally bizarre, far less entertaining and far more outlandish way college football conducts its postseason and decides its champion.
No college football season has screamed more loudly for a playoff than this one. Everyone lost at least once, except poor Hawaii, which gets no chance at the championship regardless. Louisiana State lost twice and yet finds itself in the BCS title game. Oklahoma might be playing better than anybody right now, but its chance is gone.
The logical solution? A playoff.
If McDonald’s or any other company got only one out of every four orders right, the place would be empty the next day.
Not the Bowl Championship Series.
Business has never been better. The people in charge have more money to throw around, more of their pals at the chambers of commerce are sharing in the take and their TV partner couldn’t be happier, largely because the suckers who pay the freight by tuning into the games aren’t going anywhere.
Meanwhile, college football’s national championship is more ‘‘mythical’’ than ever.
The logical solution? Again playoffs.
Why won’t they happen? Fowler explains,
…it persists because the bowls don’t want to become irrelevant and the TV networks keep propping up the current system with millions of dollars and who knows what else.
There you go.
