Okay, you wanna know what's wrong with the BCS?

[gratuitous]

I'll tell you what's wrong with the BCS, and that is that if you don't play in the Eastern time zone, you're fucked. Exhibit A, and it's all I need to make a prima facie case is the first BCS standings, which naturally have two SEC teams on top (This won't format properly, but I've provided the link so you can see this for yourselves):

http://espn.go.com/college-football/bcs/_/week/9/year/2011

RK TEAM AVG PVS RK PTS % RK PTS % AVG A&H RB CM KM JS PW %
1 LSU .9702 1 1 2854 .9927 1 1457 .9878 3 3 1 3 2 3 3 .930
2 Alabama .9627 2 2 2777 .9659 2 1434 .9722 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 .950
3 Oklahoma State .9240 4 3 2559 .8901 4 1301 .8820 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1.000
4 Boise State .8302 5 5 2410 .8383 5 1213 .8224 5 5 4 4 6 8 6 .830
5 Clemson .8240 7 6 2346 .8160 6 1174 .7959 4 6 5 5 4 4 4 .860
6 Stanford .8124 8 4 2523 .8776 3 1327 .8997 9 7 6 8 14 21 9 .660
7 Oregon .6877 10 7 2136 .7430 7 1121 .7600 12 14 7 12 12 12 12 .560
8 Kansas State .6681 11 10 1764 .6136 12 827 .5607 5 4 9 6 5 5 5 .830
9 Oklahoma .6642 3 8 1866 .6490 9 964 .6536 7 8 8 7 8 11 14 .690
10 Arkansas .6581 9 9 1851 .6438 8 974 .6603 8 12 11 15 7 6 7 .670
11 Michigan State .5380 16 11 1760 .6122 10 932 .6319 15 18 10 16 17 17 17 .370
12 Virginia Tech .5338 12 15 1343 .4671 15 729 .4942 10 11 16 10 9 10 8 .640
13 South Carolina .5014 14 14 1378 .4793 14 730 .4949 13 10 17 11 11 14 15 .530
14 Nebraska .4385 13 13 1508 .5245 13 798 .5410 21 20 13 18 22 23 19 .250
15 Wisconsin .4333 6 12 1731 .6021 11 867 .5878 24 24 12 23 0 25 21 .110
16 Texas A&M .4281 17 17 1040 .3617 16 520 .3525 11 13 14 17 10 7 10 .570
17 Houston .3676 19 18 975 .3391 18 507 .3437 14 9 0 9 16 0 11 .420
18 Michigan .3416 18 16 1072 .3729 17 519 .3519 19 15 20 13 21 24 18 .300
19 Penn State .3071 21 19 769 .2675 19 448 .3037 17 16 23 14 18 19 16 .350
20 Texas Tech .2012 NR 21 407 .1416 22 180 .1220 18 22 15 25 13 13 20 .340
21 Arizona State .1633 NR 20 542 .1885 20 253 .1715 23 25 21 22 24 20 24 .130
22 Georgia .1594 NR 22 337 .1172 21 208 .1410 22 19 0 20 20 18 23 .220
23 Auburn .1310 20 NR 60 .0209 NR 3 .0020 15 21 18 0 15 9 13 .370
24 Texas .1187 24 25 152 .0529 NR 49 .0332 20 17 0 19 19 15 22 .270
25 West Virginia .0733 15 23 330 .1148 24 155 .1051 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000

See anything odd or out of the ordinary? I'll grant you that with the number of undefeated teams to choose from, you can make a case for one or another team to be in those top 6 slots. One of the infallible BCS computers (Jeff Sagarin), however, has ranked Stanford at number 21. And another one (Kenneth Massey) has Stanford at number 14. This is how the NCAA decides who plays in the one and only championship game, based in part on these computer rankings. I would defy either Mr. Sagarin or Mr. Massey to name five teams that they think can beat Stanford, let alone 20 or 13.

This. Is. Nonsense. It's time for a playoff system that will determine the true national champion.

[MrScorpio]

1. It's crooked

Which is why there's no playoff system to determine a national champ.

The people running the bowls are making out like bandits

[KamaAina]

2. The top three teams play in the Central time zone

the only one in the Top Ten that plays in the Eastern time zone is Clemson.