thomasmurray:

kevinslane:

Well, here’s one good reason to support Iowa the rest of the way…

No, Iowa can lose. Let’s see a Cincinnati/Boise State Championship, that’ll teach ‘em.

I guess the basic premise of this article is interesting, but when you think about it, the reasoning is idiotic.

“The best thing that can happen to doom a bowl system is mayhem, and that’s what we’d get with an Iowa and TCU title game.”

I’m not sure what dictionary the author is using, but I don’t think two undefeated teams teams playing in the national championship would be “mayhem.” It may not be “sexy” or “appealing” to most of America, but it sure as hell isn’t “mayhem.” Mayhem would be a 12-1 team playing another 12-1 team while an undefeated team gets passed over as well as another 11-1 team who beat one of those 12-1 teams and an 11-1 team that beat the passed-over 11-1 team gets left out of the BCS completely (sound familiar?).

Sure, Iowa-TCU wouldn’t get the ratings a Florida-Texas or Alabama-Texas would get, but if they both finish undefeated (a big IF) and there aren’t any other deserving undefeated teams, there would be no argument that they aren’t the two most deserving teams. Which has been the argument against the BCS to begin with. So, first you were against the BCS because it wasn’t fair to deserving teams and now you’re going to be against them because you didn’t get the dream matchup you wanted in the BCS title game because they picked the more deserving teams? Solid argument.

Basically, his thesis seems to be “all college football cares about is money, so a not-as-profitable championship game would cause them scrap the BCS in hopes of making more money.” Which is absolutely retarded. First of all, if Iowa-TCU were the title game, you would still get a Florida/Alabama-Texas matchup in the one of the other BCS games. Second, and more importantly, any other system in place wouldn’t ever prevent this from happening more than the BCS already does. If anything, a playoff system would be more prone to un-sexy matchups.

All of this is rampant speculation, of course. Here’s my suggestion: Let the season play out, then start suggesting ways to fix the BCS.