I watched a little bit of the Utah - Alabama game last night and Utah was very impressive. They ended the season 13-0 and the only unbeaten team. Unfortunately, the idiots that control college football didn't allow them a chance to win the national championship. Yes, the only team to go unbeaten doesn't even get the chance to play for the title while two one loss teams get to play for it. This is why college football is a joke.
Utah is not the only team to get screwed this year. Texas beats Oklahoma and has the same record yet Oklahoma gets to play for the title simply because a bunch of coaches voted for them. And I agree with Pete Carrol at USC that his team could probably beat anybody and should have had a chance to play for a national title as well,. However, Utah actually has a better argument than USC considering they beat Oregon State while USC lost to them.
Thankfully, the AP poll is free to vote whoever they want as the national champion and I sincerely hope they reward the kids at Utah. They played a tough schedule and beat many quality opponents. In fact, they beat Alabama more handily than Florida did. It's time to send a message to the corrupt rulers of college football that they cannot simply deny a championship to a team because they don't play in a BCS conference. This year you could make the case that the Mountain West Conference was comparable to most of the BCS conferences.
So while there are still a couple games left to be played. In my mind it doesn't matter who wins between Oklahoma and Florida. The national championship is already settled. Congratulations to the Utah Utes.
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The problem with a college playoff system is the same problem with the BCS and the poll system before that: somebody is going to whine about getting jilted. We aren't talking about a 32 team league where a playoff system would work, there are at least a hundred teams that hypothetically could be national champions.
The NCAA National Championship has always been a misnomer because of this fact.
It really seams like the only people that are truely whining about this 'problem' is ESPN...sort of the way msnbc needs something to whine about to feel important.
Even if the NCAA could craft a play off system, no one is going to be happy.
PS Utah does have a legitimate claim to the title.
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