Burn, baby, burn
The Associated Press just poured some gasoline on the Bowl Championship Series formula and struck a match.
Tired of the intense public scrutiny and vitriol directed at the voters in its college football poll, the AP lawyered up Tuesday and officially asked BCS organizers to stop using the poll as part of their formula to determine the participants in the national championship game. The media poll represented one-third of teams' BCS rankings, and its departure leaves a devastating hole in the formula that even 1,000 computers just can't fill.
A large majority of college football fans -- myself included -- despise the BCS, and the AP's cease-and-desist letter expressed concern that "any animosity toward BCS may get transferred to AP." The wire service never agreed to be part of the BCS, and with the formula's bad reputation at an all-time high in a year when an undefeated major-conference team got shut out of a title shot, AP officials correctly decided to dissociate from the BCS.
This is certainly bad news for the BCS, and anything that's bad for that jury-rigged travi-sham-mockery of a postseason system makes me happy. BCS officials are now suggesting the creation of a human selection committee to pick the teams for major bowls. That'll be great, at least until scorned fans of the No. 3 team begin to direct their unadulterated rage and accusations of bribery or regional bias toward the few people foolish enough to agree to serve on the committee.
We won't see a playoff anytime soon, but thanks to the AP's decision, at least we can bide our time by laughing as the latest incarnation of the BCS formula burns gloriously to the ground.
Tired of the intense public scrutiny and vitriol directed at the voters in its college football poll, the AP lawyered up Tuesday and officially asked BCS organizers to stop using the poll as part of their formula to determine the participants in the national championship game. The media poll represented one-third of teams' BCS rankings, and its departure leaves a devastating hole in the formula that even 1,000 computers just can't fill.
A large majority of college football fans -- myself included -- despise the BCS, and the AP's cease-and-desist letter expressed concern that "any animosity toward BCS may get transferred to AP." The wire service never agreed to be part of the BCS, and with the formula's bad reputation at an all-time high in a year when an undefeated major-conference team got shut out of a title shot, AP officials correctly decided to dissociate from the BCS.
This is certainly bad news for the BCS, and anything that's bad for that jury-rigged travi-sham-mockery of a postseason system makes me happy. BCS officials are now suggesting the creation of a human selection committee to pick the teams for major bowls. That'll be great, at least until scorned fans of the No. 3 team begin to direct their unadulterated rage and accusations of bribery or regional bias toward the few people foolish enough to agree to serve on the committee.
We won't see a playoff anytime soon, but thanks to the AP's decision, at least we can bide our time by laughing as the latest incarnation of the BCS formula burns gloriously to the ground.
posted by Alabamian at 5:15 PM
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