Bull Crap Standings Released

We can’t remember what clever acronym we used last year to describe the NCAA’s ongoing attempt to avoid a Division I-A college football playoff, but we’re guessing it was pretty funny. Something like “Brazenly Corporate Series,” or “Bitchy Computer Standings” or “Bitterly Controversial Shafting,” perhaps.

Anyway, the BCS – which technically stands for “Bowl Championship Series” – released its first 2008 rankings yesterday, with Colt McCoy and the Texas Longhorns standing atop the rest of the college football world. Coming in at No. 2 is Alabama, followed by Penn State, Oklahoma, Southern Cal, Oklahoma State, Georgia, Texas Tech, Ohio State and Florida.

You can view the complete poll by clicking here, but if you’re anything like us it will frustrate you to no end to know that for the eleventh year in a row, big dollar bowl sponsorships and computer logarithms will determine who wins the national championship – not athletes on the field.

Or maybe it will just frustrate you to no end to know that neither Clempsun nor South Carolina is anywhere on the list … or near it, for that matter.

We’ve written in the past about how easy it would be to implement a playoff system in college football, yet for whatever reason the notion of arbitrarily selecting a national champion seems to work better for the big corporations and money-hungry college athletic departments than “kickin’ it old school” and letting the teams decide who’s best.

Plus, the BCS guarantees an invite to at least one ACC (Anybody Can Compete) school, which is clearly going to end up being a cruel joke on somebody in this season of SEC/ Big 12 domination.

So what do you think?

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