The Alabama, Houston, Boise State, LSU, and Oklahoma State football programs have something in common. Each finished their seasons with one loss. Five weeks ago, at the end of the regular college football season, there was enough time to invite the top 32 teams to a national championship playoff and determine a genuine National Champion. Instead fans are asked to recognize a faux national champion. Nothing could be less American.
Instead of a fair system, the NCAA colludes with an inherently corrupt BCS organization. Together these two bodies conspire each year to preserve an antiquated bowl system and funnel dollars to large established conferences. Their schemes prevent up and coming football programs like Boise State and Houston from EVER competing for their mythical championship. And they also force up and coming programs to abandon their conferences and traditional regional rivalries for east or west coast conferences. The process is as anti-free market and totalitarian as any dictatorship. The NCAA and BCS should not be supported nor should their "declared champion" be recognized. All media outlets engaging in "debates" about which of the one-loss teams are the best in the nation rather than demanding a playoff contribute to institutionalized corruption.
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