Well for starters money. The bowl executives, can make allot more money this way by setting up games in which they make the most profit. It can be argued that it had to do with the way the sugar bowl ended up, because technically there are two national championships being played instead of one.
The fiesta bowl is another great example of this, rather than select Florida State and prevent a rematch of FSU and Miami in the Orange bowl (they also play each other for the season opener, so basically they play 3 times in 11 months) the Fiesta Bowl Committee selected OSU because we bring in a shitload more money than Miami or FSU.
In my opinion the BCS sucks, after OSU got dicked over in 98', its first year, I’ve never been a fan of it because it has been unfair to allot of teams, and USC is just another example of it. All the BCS does is create more of a sense of need for a tournament than the previous bowl system did, because now we have teams bitching about who should or shouldn't be in bowl games. This of course leads to complaints about the system, and eventually the manner in which selections are made. At least with the previous system there was tradition, more than one bowl game carried prestige, and there was little or no bitching because it didn’t matter where you went. On a side note I did mention tradition didn’t I? Because now that I think about it what type of tradition does the Rose Bowl have now? It no longer showcases the Pac 10 and Big 10, and hell the fucking rose parade is no longer on the day of the game. Piss on the BCS.
In my humble opinion I think that the BCS is just a stepping stone for a tournament. Bowl Committee's have had the taste of the profit a national championship game can bring, and I don’t see the fuckers from the Orange, or Fiesta Bowls taking a pay cut to go back to the old system. The only way the system can stay around after the contract expires, is for USC to lose to Michigan, because it would prove the formula correct that USC wasn’t the superior team, and further testimony to the success of the formula would be the thriller in Tempe last year. However if USC wins, you have a tie, which the
BCS was designed to prevent, and more importantly the #1 and #2 teams didn't play for the trophy either. This right here would be more than enough to terminate the contract, and install a new tournament system, or return to the old bowl system. Hopefully the latter of the two, because College Football is unlike any other sport in the fact it places just as much importance on the regular season as it does on the presea
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