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I think we should take the “c” out of BCS; it’s a more fitting description. Let me try and explain the BCS system…

By Mike Serge and Todd Morehead

I think we should take the “c” out of BCS; it’s a more fitting description. Let me try and explain the BCS system: This team won against this team, another team knocked off this team, who later lost in triple overtime to this team. At the time that team was ranked, but the team they lost to was unranked. Wait… I just confused myself even trying to explain it. And, hell, what’s the point?

The 2007 college football season was a roller coaster ride from start to finish. And the real question, when thinking back on this season: Who blew it worst? It all started with Michigan losing to Appalachian State and culminated with the number 1 and 2 teams losing in the final weekend of the regular season. I was looking forward to West Virginia beating Pitt and then celebrating like only West Virginians can: by finding any couch and burning it in the street. And the entire state of Missouri must have been watching that game against Oklahoma. Their chance, finally, for some notoriety. Instead, they blew it. (I can’t wait to see them take it out on Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl, though). Who else blew it this season, Gamecock fans? Christ, don’t get me started. It’s enough to make you want to curl up on the front lawn and weep.

But all the tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth this season (and the BCS take on it all) did give us some intriguing match-ups for the postseason. Hawaii versus Georgia in the Sugar Bowl will definitely be a game of interest to many college football fans. How well will Hawaii match up against the Bulldogs from the vaunted SEC conference? Hawaii will move the ball against Georgia and I think they have a chance of being this year’s Boise State.

Man it would also be sweet to see the Fighting Illini slap Southern Cal around on national television in the Rose Bowl. USC has become what Florida State used to be a few years ago: no matter how lackluster their season, they always show back up in the preseason top 5 like some recurring ass rash. They are the cocky insurance salesman from down the block who always seems to wander into your yard drunk when you’re having a private party and his wife has gone to bed and can’t take the hint that everyone wishes he’d just f—k off. Hopefully, Illinois can keep them in their place this year.

Most of the country is still trying to process what happened to West Virginia against Pitt. Sure Pat White was hurt most of the game, but they shouldn’t have even needed him. And if the Sooners show up in the Fiesta Bowl like they did against Mizzou, the Mountaineers will have their hands full. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Oklahoma go to the Big Dance next season. So, WVU fans, grab a plastic gallon jug of white lightning and tell your mountain mama to put in her teeth, because this one will be a nail-biter.

Kansas versus Virginia Tech will be another must-see (not so much for the teams, but to watch those two particular coaches pace, or in Mangino’s case, pant up and down the sideline). Mark “Mr. Quiggle pie” Mangino is what a football coach should look like. He’s got more chins than a Chinese phone book and at six feet, 350 pounds he is pure gristle and gravy. You’ll never see this guy put on a pair of water skis, that’s for damn sure. On the other sideline, you have coach Frank “What the Hell Is On Your Neck?” Beamer. I heard his neck has its own shoe deal with Nike. As for the actual game: I hope Kansas crushes Virginia Tech.

The rest of the BCS bowls seem way more intriguing than the national championship game. LSU versus Ohio State. …Whoopee. One can’t help but yawn when comparing LSU/Ohio State to what could have been a WVU/ Missouri match-up. It’s the same brain-numbing phenomenon that NFL fans experience when they have to suffer through the Pats every postseason: “Haven’t we seen this before? A half dozen times? Think I’ll go change my oil.’” Well, LSU is the most deserving of the two loss teams and Ohio State is there because they benefited from not playing any football for almost a month. How does that even happen?

Though the championship game will most likely be a snooze fest, the 2007 regular season was anything but dull. If anything, and with luck, it is the start of a shakeup of the normal order of things in the NCAA. With the amount of talent out there, any team can truly beat any other team. Now, we just need a ranking system and championship series that can sort through it all.