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...interest of full disclosure, I should say that I’m happy with the BCS national championship result this year. You see, for some mindless, indescribable reason, I’ve been a big Florida fan the last three years. I’m not from there, I have no family there, and my travels to the state consist mostly of a few trips to Disney World. Still, my last three preseason title picks? Gators, Gators, Gators...
...hate the BCS as a whole as much as the next guy, but that’s not the source of most of my angst regarding stupid rules in the college football world. In addition to finally giving my boys from Florida some love, there’s one thing that the BCS actually did right this year—something that it gets right every year...
...lack of uniformity among how conferences determine their winners, the Wolverines were shafted. After all, the SEC, the Big 12 and the ACC have two divisions with two winners, which meet at season’s end to decide who has a chance to play in a coveted BCS bowl game...
...know what the next gripe is, too. There needs to be a discernable way to separate similarly-talented one-loss teams. In short, the BCS is in need of a better tie-breaker...
...BCS’s eight-year tenure, no East Coast team north of Virginia has played for a national title. Syracuse got thumped in its only BCS game in 1998, while Pittsburgh—the other BCS representative from the region—got routed by Utah (Utah...