Letter To the BCS: Come On Man!

What a week! This past weekend provided us with a variety of blowouts, an upset, and BCS game-changers. Thanksgiving weekend is always a critical weekend in the college football season. This season was no different. We had the prime-time match-ups between Alabama and Auburn, Florida and Florida State, and Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. These games proved to be everything other than close. The Crimson Tide rolled over the Auburn Tigers 38-0, and Auburn had beaten Alabama six straight times! Florida beat Florida State 45-15 in a game that was played literally in a "swamp." The Saturday night prime-time game played between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State proved to be a game full of offense as Oklahoma State put up 41 points, but it still wasn't enough as Oklahoma beat the Cowboys by twenty, meaning that the Sam Bradford led Oklahoma Sooners had scored 60 or more points for the fourth straight game! There was also an upset this weekend as the Oregon Ducks beat the former Rose Bowl bound Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis on Saturday. This loss ended the Beavers hope for a Rose Bowl title. There were also BCS game-changers as the Cincinnati Bearcats sealed up a spot in either the Orange Bowl or Sugar Bowl. The biggest of these games came from Oklahoma.

As the Oklahoma Sooners beat the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday night, many wondered how the BCS standings would be affected. On Sunday night we all found out. Last week the Oklahoma Sooners were sitting at number three in the BCS standings behind the Texas Longhorns and Alabama. This week was different. The Oklahoma Sooners jumped the Texas Longhorns and gained the second spot in the BCS standings. This means that the Sooners will play the Missouri Tigers in the Big 12 championship game, even though there was a three way tie in the Big 12 South. This is ironic though. Even though Texas beat Oklahoma head to head on a neutral field, Oklahoma was ranked ahead of them. It doesn't make sense to me how computers can choose the teams that will play in the National Championship game. The computers can't hear teams cry for their reasons, but rather all they know is that Oklahoma was putting up astounding numbers and were the better team at the time. The BCS needs a change, but will it ever happen?