Monday Morning Backup QB

The Bowl Championship Series. I think most of you know where I stand on this issue. The BCS is ruining college football. There are three weeks left in the college football season and only three games remaining matter: OU vs. Pokes...Arkansas vs. LSU...and the SECCG (presumably GA vs. LSU). None of the other games matter. Not a single one. As we all know, if the Pokes and LSU win out, they will meet for the MNC in LSU's back yard down in New Orleans. This will be good for college football.

However, if this does not occur, we begin the process of debating who belongs in the "national championship" game. It is here where the BCS minions begin to employ the concept of "transitive properties." Don't recall that from your math classes in college? It is a simple concept: if Team A beat Team B and Team B beat Team C, then Team A must be better than Team C. This is a flawed concept in football. These games are subjective. It is why Texas Tech was able to stun Oklahoma. See, OU whipped Texas...Texas destroyed Texas Tech...thus, OU certainly will beat Tech. Whoops.

There are favorites, but there are not guarantees. This is the very reason why last year irritated me so much. Who is Auburn to say that TCU would have no shot? I think TCU probably would have beaten Oregon last year. Auburn needed the entire game to put Oregon away. Back to this season: Texas Tech had no shot against the Sooners, in Norman, and they whipped them as a 28 point underdog. Don't let the score fool you in that game. Tech dominated the game and the Sooners were lucky to make it close.

If the Pokes do lose one of their remaining final two games, the debate over which one loss team "deserves" to play for some mythical title is going to ramp up like you have never seen before. If Arkansas somehow pulls the upset in Baton Rouge as well, all hell will literally break loose on the BCS landscape. Can someone help me? I thought the regular season was a defacto playoff. Why should Alabama receive a mulligan? They shouldn't as EVERY GAME COUNTS. Right BCS honks? Bama? Out. Sooners? Out. Oregon? Out. Stanford? Out. Boise St.? Never in. Houston? No pedigree. Who knew that you had to earn your right into BCS consideration.

Sure, Houston is ranked, but not really. The latest BCS standings have Boise St. still ahead of UH and that is criminal and significant. The Cougars must pass the Broncos for a shot at the at large Non-AQ berth. Otherwise, it would still be Boise St. squaring off the SEC in the Sugar Bowl. But first things first. UH must take care of business the next three weeks. The game in Tulsa looms large as does Southern Mississippi in the Conference USACG. Rest assured, UH will be tested in two of the last three weeks as they should handle SMU this Saturday without too much trouble.

Over the next few weeks, we will delve deeper into the contenders if this grouping gets muddied a bit. For now, I hope the Pokes and LSU win out and set us up for a title game and end to a season without controversy for only the third time since 2005.