What a disappointment!!
by Mike on Dec.03, 2006, under Michigan
Tonight, the BCS announced that the National Championship game woud pit #1 ranked Ohio State against #2 ranked Florida. What a colossol disappointment!!
I thought the BCS was supposed to be the two best teams playing for the championship. The fact the Florida has jumped Michigan in the polls demonstrates to me that the voters were more concerned about engineering the outcome of the BCS championship game than properly ranking the teams. I challenge anyone who saw the Gators barely beat a crappy Florida State team last week, then saw last nights game against Arkansas, to justify how this is the 2nd best team in the country – it ain’t happening!! If Arkansas doesn’t make a bone headed fumble on a punt which should never have been fielded, the Hogs probably win by 11 or more going away.
It’s clear that Harris and the Coaches have prostituted themselves in order to determine the BCS game they want, and not the game pitting the two BEST teams. And don’t give me that “most deserving” line either. If the criteria is most deserving, then Boise State should be playing in Glendale a week later than they are currently schduled.
By either criteria – the two best teams, or the two most deserving teams, Florida is not invited to the game.
One thing I found particularly galling (other than Urban Meyer’s continual whining for the vote the last couple of weeks) was the way that CBS announcers Gary Danielson and Verne Lundquist were actively pleading Florida’s case last night during the game. I understand that CBS carries the SEC and so it is expected there will be some bias. But the unbridled campaigning that these announcers did last night was over the top. Comparing schedules is one thing, and Fla probably did play a tougher schedule. But to declare “style points” irrelevant, as if beating Vandy by 20 (Michigan) is the same as beating Vandy by 6 (Florida) is disingenuous.
Now it is up to Michigan to take care of business and beat SC. If we do that, then we will end the season # 2. If we don’t, then this argument is all for naught and we will have validated this snub.
