Oklahoma Sooners Should Not Be Invited to Any More BCS Bowl Games

The Oklahoma Sooner should be banned from participating in any Bowl Championship Games for the next 5 years. The team of Bob Stopes has been consistently blown out in their last 4 appearances in these bowls. Last night at the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl was the latest in the series of disasters which include blowouts against LSU, USC, and now West Virginia. Not to mention a loss to the Boise State, a WAC team.

In fact, last night was so bad that a team without their head coach (Rich Rodriguez) or their top running back (Steve Slaten) hung 56 points on the Sooners. And that was just on one side of the ball. On the other side, Oklahoma was equally anemic with many of their yards and big plays coming after the game was well out of hand.

Probably the most concerning comment from the night came from one of the commentators on Fox – suggesting that the Oklahoma Sooner would be ranked in the Top-5 preseason next year. When are the voters (AP & Coaches) going to get it? Oklahoma simply cannot perform when it counts. It showed against Colorado, Texas Tech, and then in the Fiesta Bowl game against West Virgina. And some were arguing for Oklahoma to be in the national championship game?

The only solution is to ban Oklahoma from any significant post-season appearance for the next few years. The rest of the nation – and assuming the Oklahoma fans are sick of seeing this team in big games and getting shut down. Either there is a simply a problem with Oklahoma in the post season or the Big-12 is highly overrated. I’ll let you decide.

This Bowl Championship Season continues to be the worst on record, begging for some – change – any change – to make a better outcome for everyone. At this point, I would even take the traditional Bowl match-ups over what we have seen this season.

Will this travesty continue at the FedEx Orange Bowl with Virginia Tech and Kansas? We will have to wait and see!

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BCS Bowl Games Continue to Disappoint

I started with my post on New Years Day, about what the BCS gave us for our major bowl games this year. After watching the first two major bowls -- the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl, I am even more convinced at how much of a disaster the BCS is this year.


Let's first take at look at the Rose Bowl. Not more than a couple of quarters in, the USC Trojans were up by over 21 points before pulling all of their starters and still pulling off a 49-17 trouncing of the Fighting Illini of Illinois. While the game was moderately exciting to USC fans thanks to a couple of highlight reel plays from Joe McKnight and John David Booty. As everyone thought, and the reason I decided against getting tickets -- it was not that exciting and was simply a coronation of Pete Carroll's continued success at Southern California.

Then there was Georgia and Hawaii - 41-10 was the final score with the Bulldogs destroying the Rainbow Warriors of Hawaii. It was 38-3 in the third quarter before Georgia and Mark Richt's team shut it down and took it easy on Hawaii. People thought Hawaii was clearly overrated at #10 in the nation and it really showed on the offensive and defensive lines. While Colt Brennan's stats were miniscule, it was mainly due to the fact that he had no time all day, spending most of the game on his backside.

Just two major bowl games in and possibly the two best teams in the nation (Georgia and USC) showed why 1) They are both more deserving than Ohio State and LSU, and 2) How wrong the Bowl Championship committees got it. If only the Rose Bowl selection committee would have asked permission from the Sugar Bowl for the participation of Georgia. Then we would have had two great games of well-matched teams -- Georgia vs. USC, and Hawaii vs. Illinois.

Let's hope that this disaster does not continue in the Fiesta, Orange before we hit the anti-climatic Championship game in New Orleans.

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The BCS Gave Us This? Let’s Start Over.

Since my disgust over the announcement of the BCS Championship game of Ohio State Buckeyes and the LSU Tigers, I have ignored a lot going on in college football. Apart from those living in Columbus, Ohio (like Josh) or in Louisiana – the rest of the country realizes how much of a joke the BCS (Bowl Championship Series) has become. Even more so this year – in fact, I was just looking at the list of bowl games today and became even more disgusted.

Here is what we are looking at today -- all times are eastern standard time(EST):

Outback Jan. 1
11 a.m. Tampa, Fla.
Wisconsin vs. Tennessee
ESPN

AT&T Cotton Jan. 1
11:30 a.m. Dallas, Texas
Missouri vs. Arkansas
FOX

Gator Jan. 1
1 p.m. Jacksonville, Fla.
Virginia vs. Texas Tech
CBS

Capital One Jan. 1
1 p.m. Orlando, Fla.
Michigan vs. Florida
ABC

Rose presented by Citi Jan. 1
4:30 p.m. Pasadena, Calif.
USC vs. Illinois
ABC

Allstate Sugar Jan. 1
8:30 p.m. New Orleans, La.
Hawaii vs. Georgia
FOX

Tostitos Fiesta Jan. 2
8 p.m. Glendale, Ariz.
Oklahoma vs. West Virginia
FOX

FedEx Orange Jan. 3
8 p.m. Miami, Fla.
Virginia Tech vs. Kansas
FOX

Seriously? Are you kidding me? This is supposed to be the greatest day (or at least 2-3 days) in college football. These matchups are far from that.

First there is the championship game. LSU vs. Ohio State? Can we please pick two less deserving teams? LSU squeaked by a mediocre at best SEC conference this season with two losses, and only dominated their non-conference schedule. Ohio State did not play anyone all season long and lost to Illinois. I guess USC will have to wait until next September to beat Ohio State.

While I would prefer to make an argument for the USC Trojans in the BCS Champtionship game -- there are 2-3 other teams more deserving than LSU or Ohio State – Oklahoma, Georgia (who LSU never played), and Virginia Tech to name a few.

Then there is the Rose Bowl which is perhaps the most frustrating. How did the Rose Bowl committee pick Illinois instead of Georgia? While the Sugar Bowl did have the rights to Georgia, the Rose Bowl committee could have at least asked – which they never did. Had USC or Georgia won, there could have been a case for a split national championship.

What a shame for the granddaddy of them all – USC vs. Illinois. Even USC vs. Hawaii would have been a better match-up. Mark Schlabach at ESPN actually has the nerve to suggest the Illini have a chance against the USC Trojans. What is he thinking?

Probably the only intriguing game of the day will be Georgia vs. Hawaii. It’s somewhat of a trap game for Georgia – much like Boise State was for Oklahoma last year. Win big, and you were expected to – lose and the whole SEC comes down yet another notch. Should be great to see Colt Brennan put it up 75 times.

Let’s all hope for a BCS re-working this off-season. The selection committee had been bad in the past, but this year it is just plain awful.

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