Is The BCS Fair part 1

The title to this article asks, is the BCS Fair? The answer is no, they are not fair nor do they have any intentions of being fair.

As you read down through this article you will see the BCS- mid majors history that will bear that statement out.

The Sugar Bowl has put more egg on the face of the BCS.

Prior to the match up between Alabama and Utah the pundits and BCS supporters had the annual debate, does a mid major football program belong in a BCS Bowl.

Barry Switzer and his pack said no, they just are not good enough. Followed up with the traditional rhetoric, who did they play?

Utah as did Boise State before them, proved the pundits and BCS wrong.

The Utes manhandled The Crimson Tide from the opening kickoff to the final gun. Alabama was no match for The Utah Utes.

Bama had been ranked #1 in the nation for 5 weeks before falling to Florida. Their stingy defense allowed just 16 points per game. Utah hung 21 points on The Tide in the first quarter.

So much for the argument Utah was not good enough and could not hang with Bama.

The argument, who did they play is meaningless, Utah played and defeated everyone on their schedule. That included and Big 10's Michigan and two highly nationaly ranked conference mates, BYU and TCU.

The problem is, its not about who is good enough to be in the BCS Bowls, it's about money and the 6 BCS Conferences want it all to themselves.

In 2004 both Boise State and the Utah Utes were undefeated mid major teams, both were highly ranked, yet the BCS said they were not good enough and did not want to see either team humiliated playing in a BCS Bowl. Translation its our money and we are not sharing.

How ever when some one in Utah filed suit and Congress told the BCS fix it or they would, the clouds parted, rays of light poured forth bathing the BCS in wisdom.

They elected to put Utah into the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, declaring each year they would accept a mid major that had to be ranked in the nations top 12.

Since then there have been 4 BCS Busters in their games. Each season as the mid majors do better, the debate of do they or don't they belong starts again.

This season the debate has reached a new high with 3 mid majors ranked in the top 12 and above BCS teams like Ohio State, and Cincinnati, only Utah was selected.

Adding new fire to the debate was Boise State beating heavily favored Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl Jan.1,2007.

The Boise State Broncos not only won a come from behind game, they gave what is considered by many as the best bowl game finish in history, winning on a two conversion in overtime and finishing with a perfect record.

That started the new heated debate, should Boise with its perfect record been allowed to play for the National Title.

Utah destroying Alabama in this years Sugar Bowl has rekindled that debate. Prior to losing to Florida, Bama had been ranked #1 for 5 weeks, Florida has moved on to tonight's NC game.

In fairness to the BCS, they have stated in this most recent round of controversy, their goal is only to try to match up #1 vs #2 to determine a collegiate national champion. Yet tonight, Utah, the only undefeated team in college football will sit home and watch the game on tv. Just like Boise State did in 2007, when Florida played Ohio State in the 2007 NC Fiesta Bowl.

The BCS has said it is not their stated goal to put by virtue of national ranking the best teams in the remaining BCS Bowls as evidenced by taking Ohio State as an at large team over #9 Boise State or getting #11 TCU into a BCS Bowl.