Going Bowling

The college football bowl season is almost over. I'm writing this while I watch the BCS championship game between Auburn and Oregon. Every year I listen to friends, sportscasters and others talk to me about all of the "big bowl games" that will be happening. Every year I get confused. Why do we get excited for bowl games? The championship game aside, none of the bowls determine anything. Well, that's not totally true. The bowls usually prove that Ohio State sucks and is terribly overrated. At least we have that going for us.

I'll admit that I was looking forward to watching this year's Rose Bowl. Wisconsin against TCU. TCU is one of those smaller schools that never gets much respect from the BCS. I wanted to see what they could do against a bigger school like Wisconsin. As expected, TCU won (I say as expected because the Big Ten is grossly overrated every year). They looked good and they showed the nation that the smaller schools might deserve a little more respect. But other than that, what did it prove? Nothing.

There is virtually no difference between a bowl game and the first game of the season. Maybe if the bowl system was set up so that #1 would play #2, #3 would play #4 etc. it would be a little more interesting. Instead we have bowl games like #15 Nevada playing an unranked Boston College team. Who cares? The only thing that comes from a bowl game is money for the school, however, the fans don't even get to see any of that. The money goes into the athletic departments.

Even though the BCS is a steaming pile of shit, the championship game this year is looking to be pretty exciting. There is only a few minutes left in the first half right now and it's been great so far. I'm not invested in either team but I have a lot more respect for Oregon. Don't ask me why. I think this will be Auburn quarterback, Cam Newton's, final game in college. I believe Auburn only signed him to a one year contract and they won't be able to afford him next year after he won the Heisman this year. Those of you that are thinking, "But they don't pay college players, " clearly missed the joke.