Let me start this off by throwing praise at Nick Saban and Alabama. Gutty win and great season. They were the best team this season and it showed tonight.
That being said, I'm tired of college football honks telling me how important every game is. It's the exact opposite.
For Boise State, TCU and Cincinnati the season was meaningless. Despite navigating through the regular season undefeated, all three were shut out of any National Championship game. To make matters worse, the BCS decided to pit Boise and TCU against each other and still not allowing them to face a big-time BCS conference foe. What if Boise State beat Florida? What would you say then?
Now figure that the 33 bowls that preceded tonight's game were meaningless as well. Just neat little excuses for boosters to take a holiday vacation, cities to make some dough off of these travelers and for sponsors to plaster their products all over the place. Don't get me wrong: I like the bowls but they aren't as grand or important as they once were.
That brings me to the Citi BCS Championship of the World or at Least a Computer Program Bowl. We went through all that ... the entire season and waiting a month for the game to happen ... and the biggest monkey-wrench of them all was thrown into the mix. Just five plays into the game, Texas' Colt McCoy goes out with a shoulder injury. So instead of the mighty matchup we were maybe, kinda, hopefully expecting we get to see a freshman QB who has barely played go up against an Alabama defense that totally dominated Tim Tebow.
The sad thing is that Alabama didn't really play that well. If not for a couple of bad plays by the Longhorns freshman QB, Texas would have won that game.
And that was it. That just ended one of the most anti-climatic seasons I can remember. The whole Bradford/Tebow/McCoy Heisman race was instead won by a sophomore that no one heard of when the season started. Five teams entered bowl season undefeated ... two stayed that way after tonight.
And only one gets to call themselves champions. At least every game counted for you guys, eh Boise State?
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