The Pissy Posting You Knew Was Coming


This fine piece is titled "Rose Sad". Artist comments:

I coloured this in on the computer when i was bored, pleased i did because the pencil one doesn't look as good! The person in it, I have called Rose, and she's a sad vampire!

No BCS championship. No rematch on neutral field. Instead, we get to play another team that is not at all pleased to be in the Rose Bowl. Not a happy guy here. I think it's pretty fucked up how Florida's last two games, so-so performances in my opinion, moved them from way back to climb to number two. But hey, Florida is a good football team and decent arguments can be made for either Michigan or Florida, so I'm not surprised at this outcome...someone was going to get fucked and it just happened to be Michigan.

I finally realized how fraudulent the Division 1-A college football championship is this weekend. It is the only sport that I can think of where there is competition beyond the regular season without some type of playoff system. But hey, why would anyone want a playoff when you could have coaches decide who the best team is. Really, who is more qualified than the Wyoming coach or the Iowa State coach at picking the best 25 teams? They are the perfect group for determining the best teams. They don't do anything but watch college football games, well, other than constantly recruiting, and the whole preparing for next opponents thing. There certainly wouldn't be a conflict of interest, would there, when a team financially benefits from conference representation in bowls? No way! Maybe it's time for yet another poll, where the voters are the parents of the starting quarterbacks or one made up of just the players. How about one made up of just black sports writers or white NFL wide receivers or scratch golfers or exotic dancers or registered sex offenders?

There is really only one ranking system that is legitimate. It's a ranking system that most college football fans are keenly aware of. It's a ranking system that has to be set correctly or it could lead to its own ruin. I'm of course referring to the lines set by sportsbooks. Their ranking system focuses on single matches instead of trying to come up with an ordered list of the best teams. Who really gives a shit about the #18 team in the country? Fans of that team may, but they likely think that they are really better than #18. "Dude, we're totally better than the #16 team--we should definitely be #15!" If your team is ranked #18, maybe you shouldn't really be thinking about your team as being associated with the best teams in the country at all. Instead, maybe think of your team as being third best in your conference. If your team lost three games, nobody outside of your conference gives a flying fuck about you.

Bowl games were never intended to be used to determine the national champion. They were set up to promote tourism by drawing sod busting Midwesterners from extremely cold areas out to places where they could warm up for a bit. Boxing matches are the only other sporting events I can think of that are set up to just make money. Sometimes a boxing match will be for one of the 17 or so world titles, but mostly they are just for luring in people who like to watch other people punch and get punched back.

So what should we do, Mr. McGamble, you ask? I want some kind of a playoff. I don't care how many teams, but eight makes the most sense to me, with the seedings set by Vegas. If there is still enough interest for bowl games like the Mieneke Kar Kare Klassik, fine (fun fact: Wali Lundy was the MVP of the 2002 Meineke Car Care Bowl).



I find these games to be pretty pathetic, but hey, if it makes you a few bucks then go for it. It's something to watch, I guess. I'm just done paying any attention to the rank of a team listed next to the school name on the scoreboard in the corner of the television screen.