Should ESPN announcers really try to influence who will play in the National Title Game, or should they just announce games and give fair and impartial analysis?
In my opinion with so much football left they should stick to their jobs and stop trying to sway voters as to who should play in the NC game.
The BCS games are more than just bowl games and a national title, they are huge sums of money to both the teams and their conferences. The conferences than can get two teams into a BCS Bowl fair much better than those with only one team at the " Big Party. "
This least weekend during on of the many different recap shows covering college football, had Kirk Herbstriet and some other talking heads tying to influence who should play for the National Title.
This coming weekend has the undefeated Nitnay Lions of Penn State pitted against the 1 loss Ohio State Buckeyes. Given the current records of the other Big 10 teams, this game may very well determine the Big 10 Conference Champion.
Kirk a Big 10 homer and former Buckeye quarterback not only points that out, but he and his cronies take it a step further. It is their contention that the winner of this game, should be in the NC game. Very premature, why are he and his cronies trying to sell this can of malarkey, just homerism? Sure and money, more money for his conference.
Lets review possible outcomes from Penn versus the Buckeyes. Should Penn win, they remain undefeated maintaining their #3 spot in the polls, providing numbers 1 and 2 stay undefeated and have the drivers seat in the conference title race. But does this qualify them for the national title game? I don't see how, their SOS is weak compared to teams in the Big 12 and in the SEC.
If Herb's former team the Buckeyes win, should they as a 1 loss team be there? I don't see why? USC proved Ohio State was overrated when they destroyed the Buckeyes back in Sept. If USC wins out, Herb wants his Ohio State team playing for the title instead of So. Cal I don't see how a win over Penn State erases the win of the Trojans over his Buckeyes.
Should #1 Texas and #2 Alabama finish the season with a perfect record, doesn't it only make sense to match them in the NC Game?
It is the same bias we saw in 2006. it wasn't fair then and it isn't fair now. The talking heads favoring the Big Ten Conference.
During the regular season Ohio State won a tight game over Michigan who finished the season with just the one loss. Ohio State was the only undefeated BCS team of the year.
Kirk and his cohorts quickly went to work lobbying, through their TV positions that the title game should be a rematch of Ohio State and Michigan. Making the 2006 Fiesta Bowl NC game a show case for the Big 10.
Urban Myer, coach for the Florida Gators took his case for his 1 loss team public, challenging the BCS decision makers.
Myer won, The Gators took on The Ohio State Buckeyes in the 2006 Championship Game played in the Fiesta Bowl. Yes there were two Fiesta Bowls that year, the regular Fiesta Bowl and the NC Fiesta Bowl.
For those that don't remember or didn't see the game between the Gators and Ohio State, it started out with an electrifying kick off return for 6 by the Buckeyes. After that is was all Florida State, crushing Ohio State 41 - 14
It is my opinion when Herbie and his pals continue year after year pushing Ohio State and the Big 10 down the throats of the voters and the fans, they create a backlash of resentment against the very team and conference he wishes to promote.
In conclusion Herbie, do your job as a football commentator and analyst, let the rest sort itself out. There is alot of money at stake, let the teams that earn it win it. There is more to college football and the Big 10. Every time you use your TV position to promote both over other teams and conferences, you do both your team and conference a disservice.
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