This an excerpt from College football news... By Matthew Zemek Past Affirmations: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13 | Week 14 We’re at the end of another colorful and action-packed college football season, an Autumnal journey filled with sights, sounds and sensations unparalleled in the sporting universe. Yet, all I can focus on is how screwed up the sport of college football is right now. Let’s thank Miami for sparing us the debacle of a Pittsburgh-West Virginia tie going to the Panthers on the basis of a head-to-head tiebreaker… oh wait, that’s right—the head-to-head tiebreaker doesn’t mean anything in the Big East. Wait, Big East? What Big East? No Virginia Tech, Miami or Boston College. What will this conference look like next year? Ouch. But aside of the thoughtful, charitable Hurricanes, you look elsewhere, and you see outrages. It’s ridiculous. First, the BCS, which is more of a Bull Crap Series than ever before. This past weekend, LSU drills the living daylights out of an erratic but still gifted Arkansas team—a team that whipped BCS bowl-bound Texas in Austin—and as a reward for that 55-24 romp, has its BCS title game hopes dashed, all because a revved-up Hawaii team with everything to play for was whipping up on a Bama team coming off an Iron Bowl loss and just wanting to soak up some sand and surf as a reward for a taxing season and a lot of undeserved hardships. Worse still is the fact that LSU’s computer microchip quotient will take a hit because of the absolutely asinine rule which stipulates that a second win over a team can’t deliver quality win or strength-of-schedule bonus points. Why LSU should suffer a 0.4-point REDUCTION in its BCS score for beating Georgia… in a rematch…in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome (a de facto road game)... against Fred Gibson and a few other players who didn’t dress for LSU’s 17-10 win on Sept. 20…is absolutely ridiculous. Gee, Rice beat Louisiana Tech; go USC, baby! Is that how a real playoff works? Seems like this SEC Championship Game, supposedly an extra big game that should only work in FAVOR of a title-contending team if it is good enough to win it, will actually HURT LSU’s overall portfolio. There’s no way that should happen. If LSU gets nailed for scheduling three cupcakes, one of which was the result of a last-second Marshall bailout the Tigers could do absolutely nothing about, then the Tigers had damn well be rewarded and justly compensated for playing and beating an excellent Georgia team twice in one season. But they won’t, and that’s why you can start printing the USC-Oklahoma T-shirts, folks… and why you can continue to curse a wretchedly unfair, needlessly confusing, and shamefully tradition-sapping system known as the Bull Crap Series. Speaking of LSU getting screwed, another reason why the computers won’t smile on the Bayou Bengals this week is because Florida—whom the Tigers needed to win on Saturday—witnessed highway robbery by a bunch of guys wearing the prison bars… and (this is a note of only minor importance here…) representing the Atlantic Coast Conference, of which Florida State is still a member, last time I checked. LSU is a great, national-title level team and Arkansas hung with it for a quarter but...The Tigers wanted an impressive performance to show the pollsters that they deserve to be in the Sugar Bowl over USC, and this was it. Arkansas is a very, very good team and LSU pounced on it when the door was opened by Hog mistakes. When this team gets a bit of momentum, it's unstoppable.
