I'm disgusted

I'll get it out in the open that I'm an Oregon Duck fan. Though it should be noted that I started this blog before anyting was official as far as bowl matchups go.

But, this just makes me sick. Notre Dame and Ohio State, two two-loss teams in the Fiesta bowl? WTF!!?? So, the Ducks play one bad half of football all season against the #1 team in the country (did you see them destroy UCLA yesterday) and they get screwed. This is just ridiculous. That's two years in a row the PAC-10 has been in this situation (#5 team in BCS rankings not going to a BCS bowl). Not too mention when Oregon was shut out of the Rose Bowl in '01 in favor of a team that didn't even win its conference.

So, you're telling me there's no east-cost bias here? Man, it's time for the PAC-10 to secede. Tom Hansen and friends are obviously incompetent, so they need to do something to shake things up.

The BCS is wrong, wrong, wrong! Even if the Ducks got in, it still doesn't make the BCS any better (just slightly more intelligent). You cannot determine a championship based on subjective voting, fan count, and how much money a team is worth for your bowl. It needs to be decided on the field where the dispute can be cleared up by playing football, not playing politics.

You may argue that the championship will be decided in the Rose Bowl between USC and Texas. But, if that's the case, why even have all of these other bowls. They're purely a money-driven event, which exploits college athletics as much as gambling does. Determining a champion is about giving deserving teams a shot.

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