BCS: What's Different 10 Years Later?

The D-I20 Register may have produced the exact same one versus two match-up as the BCS, but I can tell you that it takes no joy in that finding. But it has – perhaps even better than last year – shown that any knuckle-head can come up with something that replicates the BCS and do it so simplistically that even the Cave Men could do it.

If you’re reading this you know by now that the D-I20 Register was created more to illustrate and define the BCS’ ineptitude for determining the participants for the national championship, but there is great pride in ridiculing it as well.

With that said, the question everyone needs to ask is, if some guy with an excel spread sheet can come up with the same one versus two match-up adding some “5’s” and “2.35’s” together haven’t they exhausted every angle with the tweaking and the nudging? The bottom line is that no matter what formula you adjust there’s always going to be an overlooked scenario that leaves the computers fried and smoking.

It really does baffle the mind that the powers that be believe this is the best system for crowning a champion. Like those before it, the Bowl Coalition and the Bowl Alliance, the BCS will eventually collapse upon itself and we can only hope when it does that those same powers that be do not force yet another inept system that mocks us back.

Perhaps the most revealing irony to this whole BCS and computer formula non-sense is they were completely irrelevant this year. The pollsters, voters or whatever you want to call them are the ones who decided it was LSU instead of Virginia Tech, Oklahoma, Kansas, USC or even Hawaii (heaven forbid they let someone play for a national championship who is not esteemed to be a member of the chosen conferences). Virginia Tech finished third only .01 points behind LSU, but almost no one voted them that high. Had voters placed Virginia Tech number three they would have finished ahead of LSU in the BCS standings. So, we're all left scratching our heads wondering in the end how this season was any different than the pre-BCS years and why we have to be left once again with such a let down after this magnificent of a season.

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Tomorrow, I will look at where a BCS-style system might actually be useful.