Word: michigan
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...talk of how Michigan got a raw deal when the indefinable Bowl Championship Series formula decided to put one-loss Florida in the title game to play for the right to get blown out by Ohio State in January. It was the Wolverines, as you’ll remember, whose only loss was to that undefeated No. 1 Buckeye squad, a three-point road defeat three weeks ago in Columbus. And the Gators struggled mightily in their conquering of the SEC—the most overrated and over-hyped conference in college football...
...common complaint from the Michigan faithful is that thanks to the 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...
...that’s terrible. I’d hate to go to a school like Michigan, where their football games are home to more than 100,000 fans, where every home game is like the Harvard-Yale weekend we see only twice during our entire college careers...
...worse that even if we did, thanks to a terribly antiquated Ivy League rule that began when the league officially formed fifty years ago, we’re not allowed to play past the regular season. I guess I don’t feel too sorry that Michigan has one loss and might only finish, oh, I don’t know, second in the final standings...
...however bad the BCS is, the Ivy League is far worse. Michigan fans: when you’re watching Ohio State play Florida a week after New Year’s for college football’s biggest prize, no matter how much you think it should have been a Buckeye-Wolverine rematch, be grateful...