Figure Skating Season Is Now Over

I've said it all before, so there is no need to linger. Boise State got screwed in the polls. Once Florida pounded the sack off of Ohio State last night, the Broncos remained the only undefeated team in D-IA college football. I can live with Florida winning the national title, though I would have liked to have seen Boise State take the AP poll. Now that the polls are out, Boise State ended up #5 in the AP poll. They finished behind two two-loss teams, LSU and USC. They finished behind Ohio State, which has not yet stopped drooling and weeping from their humiliation last night.

I do not deny that Boise State would face an uphill battle in a tournament matched up with LSU, USC, Ohio State (well, last Monday night's Boise State team rubs last night's Ohio State team's face in its own pee like a dog that wet on the carpet). but that it not the point. The point is that the vast majority of the experts had Ohio State winning comfortably last night. The vast majority had Oklahoma pummelling Boise State last week. A good number believed that Michigan deserved a shot at the national title game.

The point is that we have countless examples of experts and close observers being wrong. Two months ago not one of the experts had Florida as their eventual national champion. Vegas makes its fortune in sports books every season based on the fact that guys who know a lot about sports are going to lose more than they win. And yet in these final polls they slap us in the face again. Until we have a playoff system, major college football is no more than figure skating with fewer sequins and every year they let us get no further than the short program, at which point the judges come in and announce the competition over. It's a fraud, and this year was Boise State's turn to be the patsy. Well, Boise State and all fans of college football.