Football Monday - Holy Crap Edition!

What else can be said but "Holy Crap, that was the Best College Football Weekend Ever!!!"  This is true, mostly because I said it, but I'm pretty sure everyone else believes it too, even Boise State fans have to agree with this one, despite their loss (to be explained herein).


This weekend had it all, close overtime last minute upsets, usual suspect winners, heartache, bliss, tears of joy, tears of sorrow, and healthy helping of fraud.

What?  What was that?  You think the Boise State kicker is so bad that he could miss 2 field-goals from 24 and 26 yards?  Serious?

You think that Alabama is so horrible, and Auburn so great that Alabama could blow a 24pt lead?  You don't think it might have been to keep the money flowing to the SEC?

These games were fixed.  The kicker from Boise State was paid via wire transaction to a numbered account in the Caymans to miss the Field Goals putting them in OT, and eventually losing the game to Nevada (information unconfirmed, probably didn't happen exaclty as described), and Alabama got a good long talking to before the game in which the BCS convinced the NCAA to overlook any alumni spending irregularities for the next year at Alabama if they threw the game (also unconfirmed).

If you think these things are merely coincidences, tough breaks or just the effects of big time NCAA Div 1 FBS pressure please pull your head out of the Smurf Turf and come back to reality.


The BCS chiefs were getting pretty nervous and sweating Benjamins when Alabama, just for fun, threw up 24 points on a shocked Auburn (who for plausible deniability reasons was not told of the plot), before Alabama started what appeared to be a really bad artistic interpretation of a ballet performance very loosely based on what can only be described as a football game.

It was obvious that that the SEC couldn't use the Refs to fix the games this year, as they used that trick last year to fix all of the tough games for Alabama and Florida to ensure that one of them got the National Championship Game. 

The SEC AD even gasped in fake horror when he learned that their officiating crews got suspended over that, as he noted "the calls weren't that obvious, we practiced them over and over to make them seem real."

But alas, as one of my old MBA buddies pointed out to me in a fierce BCS debate over Facebook today, "We have the royal class who get a free ride based on their birthright - independent of how they perform."  Now I am not going to say that Auburn does not deserve their shot, but I'm hard pressed to believe that Alabama just forgot how to play ball after putting up 24 points on Auburn.

I would re-word this as "We have the under-class who got screwed based on their lack of a birthright - independent of how they perform."  Hats off to TCU for negotiating a bid to the Big East, finally something to give that conference some legitimacy, and TCU gets their birthright.

So on to this week's Brig Poll, the definitive NCAA FBS College Football Ranking that nobody cares about, but makes me feel better.  

I think the BCS really messed this one up, though we do agree on Auburn and something must have gone really goofy, because I have all 5 schools in the Big 12 South except Texas ranked in the Top 2ish.


Enjoy